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Romford, Harold Wood or Gidea Park. Any views?

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niceday
niceday Posts: 20 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Good Morning MSEs

I'm looking into buying a property in either Romford, Harold Wood or Gidea Park. Anyone have any views they'd care to share about these areas?

Many thanks

Have a niceday :o

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  • fabwitch_2
    fabwitch_2 Posts: 1,756 Forumite
    If you have kids and want them to go to excellant Schools I would move a couple of stops further up the line and move to Brentwood or Shenfield. Alsoif you work in London there is a straight though train from Shenfield to Liverpool street Station which only takes 22 minutes. We were looking around Harold Wood until we discovered how bad the Schools were and moved to Hutton which is a twenty minute walk to Shenfield Station and also the catchment area for St Martins School which i one of the top Schools in Essex.
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Personally I would move even further out of London. Those areas are horrible.
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