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Need to escape the smoke but where do normal people live??
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Not a great time to try and move but wife has put a ban on moving after eldest starts year one next Sept so...
Currently live in East London, seemingly a nice villagey type of place with a fair few like-minded good friends, but... the reality is it is still London with all the grimness of crime and general squalor. I am not going to stay around here for the next 20 years!
I would look at North of London with a Western bias but, without sounding snobby (but I will), most places seem to be full of toytown houses in grim soul-less newtowns (Hemel, Welwyn, Stevenage) or snobby places full of lawyers and ladies who lunch like Berkhamsted and St Albans.
All I'd like is a period house, 3 or 4 bed terrace, looking to rent to start with, in an area with a bit of culture and not a Stepford wives or Jeremy Kyle feel.
Not a troll, just getting desperate!
You're all normal - where do you live???
Currently live in East London, seemingly a nice villagey type of place with a fair few like-minded good friends, but... the reality is it is still London with all the grimness of crime and general squalor. I am not going to stay around here for the next 20 years!
I would look at North of London with a Western bias but, without sounding snobby (but I will), most places seem to be full of toytown houses in grim soul-less newtowns (Hemel, Welwyn, Stevenage) or snobby places full of lawyers and ladies who lunch like Berkhamsted and St Albans.
All I'd like is a period house, 3 or 4 bed terrace, looking to rent to start with, in an area with a bit of culture and not a Stepford wives or Jeremy Kyle feel.
Not a troll, just getting desperate!
You're all normal - where do you live???
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Sherwood forest, but I have a detached house not a tree house.
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Kent has some nice towns and villages on the railway line, but also a few dumps.Been away for a while.0
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How far out of London? Are you going to commute? How long are you willing to travel for?0
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Come to Norfolk and take it down a few gears.....!0
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is work still in London? or can you tptally up sticks?.im in Derbyshire and you could get get a really large house up here for the cost of yours down there..plus trains straight in London in 2 hrsTO FINISH LAST, FIRST YOU HAVE TO FINISH....0
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wanstead is nice, or is that where you are already0
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mid bedfordshire - mainline train into london 40 mins
its nice here:j MFi3 wannabee :j
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Thanks for replies. Needs to be commutable to London for the time being and no more east than A10 or west than m40. i'd love to go to kent but too far from childcare, I mean in-laws.0
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i dont know roads, is maldon east of the a10? i went there once and it seemed nice0
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What about Royston ?...........40 mins from Kings Cross and about 12 miles south of Cambridge ! :rolleyes:0
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