Hi All
I currently live 2 minutes walk from Charlton Station, but the house is too small. I am therefore needing to sell; and oh my god have! Now I have about 325K to spend can go a bit more but can't be more than 30 minutes from London Bridge and as my son is 8 he needs the chance to go to a decent school (i.e. not in the London Borough of Greenwich). What are:
Albany Park
Bexleyheath
Bexley
SIdcup like as places to commute from and to live bare in mind I'll occasionally want to go to a quiet pub locally (if they still exist?) but have lots of options at work already.
Regards
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Somewhere in that borough should be 30 minutes from London Bridge.
bexley
sidcup
albany park
bexleyheath
welling
However, our next move (2-3 years) we want to go to Farnborough common area or West Wickham.
I currently live 2 minutes walk from Charlton Station, but the house is too small. I am therefore needing to sell; and oh my god have! Now I have about 325K to spend can go a bit more but can't be more than 30 minutes from London Bridge and as my son is 8 he needs the chance to go to a decent school (i.e. not in the London Borough of Greenwich). What are:
Albany Park
Bexleyheath
Bexley
SIdcup like as places to commute from and to live bare in mind I'll occasionally want to go to a quiet pub locally (if they still exist?) but have lots of options at work already.
Regards[/quote]
How ironic, i have exactly the same dilemma, only difference being is that rather than an 8 year old son, i have a daughter.
I am swaying towards bexley, although if i could find the right house in Blackfen, that would do.
The problem with Blackfen seems to be that all the houses are of the pointy type. Then they tend to stick big boxes on the side, which would piss me off if it was the other side of my semi-detatched.
I'd say sidcup and bexley are good bets. Same order as golf addick.
Bromley borough. generally speaking nice residential areas, good schools, train connections good, nice parks & woods, a council that spends nothing on loony projects and 35 mins from Gatwick.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22090087.html?locationIdentifier=POSTCODE%5E214229&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on&pageNumber=1&backToListURL=%2Fproperty-for-sale%2Ffind.html%3FlocationIdentifier%3DPOSTCODE%255E214229%26includeSSTC%3Dtrue%26_includeSSTC%3Don
Aaaargh, one of those pointy houses waiting for a box to spring up on the side of it.
Nice pubs too.
A bit more than 30 mins commute to London Bridge?
P'raps.
With phone and pc these days, not an issue if you work from home!
Only sticking problem is work. I work in rail construction, and fortunatly there is a great deal of it in and around London at the moment, but Cornwall, not so sure.
depends which part of Welling, 'South Welling'/Falconwood is nice and don't forget Blackfen which is also nice both 2nd to Bexley, although BF isn't too well services for a train station.
Would probably agree with this although i'd put some parts of Welling ahead of Bexleyheath.
Seconded. Hayes is the start/end of the line. So, Hayes, West Wickham, Eden Park, Elmers End - all of them reasonable enough - depending exactly where and lots of schools to choose from, both junior and secondary.