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Balham is one of the best areas of London, amazing transport links great bars and huge amounts of different places to eat. With tooting down the road for asain food and markets and Clapham up the road for everything else, Northern line so easy into central London. For what you get in Balham it is no where near as over priced as the prime locations.
I don't dislike the area, but it IS very, very overpriced. Balham I would describe a typical zone 3 area, and should be around the average price for London.
According to Home.co.uk
Average (mean) house price London:
£396,085
Average (mean) house price in Balham:
£629,392 (increase of 121% since 2000).
Average (mean) house price in Putney:
£566,788
Average (mean) house price in Fulham:
£696,294
Balham is not as posh as Putney or Fulham, not by a long way!
The average salary is London is £35k (being generous). That puts Balham at about 18x average salary, for an area that should appeal to the average London home owner.
The Northern Line is c**p anyway, much better to use the overland train.Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith0 -
Balham is one of the best areas of London, amazing transport links great bars and huge amounts of different places to eat.
Balham's OK, but nothing special. I can think of at least 20 other places I'd rather live in London....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
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Balham is one of the best areas of London, amazing transport links great bars and huge amounts of different places to eat. With tooting down the road for asain food and markets and Clapham up the road for everything else, Northern line so easy into central London. For what you get in Balham it is no where near as over priced as the prime locations.
If you are going out of London then I think Surrey over Buckinghamshire every time. Guildford is one of those places that has everything you need and Kingston or Surbiton are cool too.
If we are talking about ideals I'd rather live in Didsbury (Manchester) best place in the UK, but jobs are in London.
Anyone who uses the ridiculous "Its got Great Bars & restaurants" thing to Justify Crazy Property prices are mad IMO ....0 -
The language of all times property pieces is extremely bullish-even when counseling vendors to cut prices. Any drop in price to achieve a sale is not discovering the current market value, but offering a 'bargain'. Rhetoric that allows everyone to pretend that houses are not grossly overvalued if they want to.0
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wow, another day, another "balham is great ... no it's not" thread... !! can we expect another tomorrow?!0
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Stop that neverdespairgirl!!! 20 other places!!!
i would definately say 10!!!
Blackheath, Greenwich, Dulwich, Hampstead, Highgate, Bloomsbury, Holborn, Clerkenwell, City, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Westminster, Richmond, Kingston, Surbiton, Shad Thames, Covent Garden, Pimlico, Battersea, Clapham.......much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Blackheath, Greenwich, Dulwich, Hampstead, Highgate, Bloomsbury, Holborn, Clerkenwell, City, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Westminster, Richmond, Kingston, Surbiton, Shad Thames, Covent Garden, Pimlico, Battersea, Clapham....
but honey
hardly any of those places have a waitrose!?!?
:beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
This Ive come to know...
So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:0 -
Bloomsbury and Blackheath do, not sure about the rest!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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