Owning your own home

I am only joking because I have no idea why Corbett is hype, 6pt told me to buy on corbett and shortlisted roads based on traffic basically and I bought, he said, I followed.

What road are you then?

Arngask, I wish I was on Fordel though

That mumsnet thread is 50% bullshit, 50% useful if you have kids I guess but it's 10 years old now so 🤷

I live just outside of the Corbett, love it. Nice people, local shops/takeaways, choice of parks and green spaces, 3 train lines to choose from. Absurd menagerie of urban wildlife outside my window is always entertaining. I basically cba cycle into central anymore, but others do the daily commute from here and further so it's definitely doable.

If you're looking at houses, they mostly have good amount of garden space, which is great.

Forest Hill borders. Fancier families at hilly fields and good for van dough at the Blythe hill, but too far from Good Food for the sourdough and flat white lifestyle, and Mountsfield Park for the CX dads. You want Culverley Green at your budget, short walk to GF and you get to Catford Mews along inchmery instead of sangley. I haven’t lived in Catford for a year now tho.

Will try to dig out my big ancient Catford post.

@amey I am ready to go and look at that house on Carholme Rd, but my wife is still insisting that we don't move south. Can you give me a long list of the pros of Catford?

Carholme Road is very quiet and it's actually in Forest Hill, not Catford, Honor Oak isn't fair either.

I lived there for a year (rent a room), road is very quiet with minimal rat running, I and my partner tried to find a flat around there but was priced out.

18 minutes walk to Forest Hill Station, 7 minutes to Catford Station (7 minutes also to a small Sainsbury)

Thanks Ed. I think you said up thread that you actually lived in that house on Carholme Road for a while ? It obviously looks like it needs a full renovation, but are there any particular things you would point out? Going to see it on Tuesday in any case.

Yeah I did, was run down and rented by room, but if you think it’s good to go for, it’s a decent area of London and easy access to Bythe Vale and the surrounding.

Be warned that cause our families (mine in Surrey near Berkshire and her in Sheffield) mean the South East isn’t the easiest to get out of London!

Found my old Catford post here, but doesn’t read as particularly helpful for your situation. Prince of Nunhead was so long ago it’s almost like it never happened. Another place I left just before gentrification hit in a big way. I left before the Ivy House happened!

Ah shit, I'm not around on Tuesday, otherwise I'd give you the locals tour! You wanna be more SE23 than SE6 anyway mate...

Ravensbourne Arms in Lewisham is the new Ivy House. Potentially.

Is it open again? We used to love stopping there for a pint on the way home in the summer sun before antic unforgivably closed it and tried to turn it into flats. Is their effort up in Lewisham proper still going? It was always deserted every time we went for a pre-sparrow beverage.

@revenant there’s also some big houses hidden away between rushey green and mountsfield, gentrification felt a long way off when I was last there but if you’re in it for the long haul and have faith in a rushey green transformation you could do quite well (eventually). Someone poured a lot of money into tidying up 13 (I think) Honley Road, worth a nose if you’re passing by. Also check out the aforementioned sparrow.

Is it open again?

Nope but if this has legs it could be great - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-the-ravensbourne-arms

Is their effort up in Lewisham proper still going?

Nope also closed and a sad sight on the high street :(

I'm really hoping that the Fellowship & Star pub and cinema in Bellingham reopens, I really liked it there, and it took such a long time to renovate.

Thanks all.

The other Carholme Road pull is that it appears to be in catchment for two outstanding state primaries, the closest of which was most recently ofsteded in September 2021. This and where to park my cargo bike are basically my highest priorities.

They put so much into getting it going, losing it would be a tragedy :(

Have you considered leaving London? Lots of cargo bike parking round this way, and close to the lanes… schools aren’t bad either.

Yes, but ultimately it wouldn’t really work for me from a work perspective. I do envy 6pt 3.0 though.

Hmm. The realities of having a proper job are quite unfair, despite the monetary perks.
I need to work out how to get the legs from 6ptv1.0. I won’t feel like I belong here until I can assert myself in the surprisingly large neighbourhood dad peloton. Getting lost running solo through fields just isn’t the same.

a work perspective.

EXCELLENT 85% traffic free commute to SE1 FYI via Q1 C10

Have you considered leaving London?

I didnt bring you here to talk negative

Finally you have something useful to say.

I was going to say, you want to be careful about extolling the rural idyll. The next thing you know, Amey will move in down the road.

Too much nature here, he’d be moving back home 8 days later.

It it helps I do see failing to realise the lifestyle we want in London as a bit of a defeat, but I am happy that we have managed to realise it all, and there are worse places to do it than here.

Amey will move in down the road.

Never leaving London. My dream is when my kid fucks off I will buy a flat in zone 1. With a kickr bike and a brompton.

I swear Bromptons are the most commonly seen bike in SE6 these days. So many! And all kinds of people. Except young ones.