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hedgehogpenguin

try Brockley ... it's not paradaise but a whole heap better than Plumstead etc.
And about the same price I would have thought

ILW

pigeonpie wrote: »

ahem, delicate question: isn't it a little bit tricky at times if you aren't white? I've heard a lot of mutterings about not v cosmopolitan. No offence.

Think Bexleyheath is worse for that sort of thing.

puddy

pigeonpie wrote: »

ahem, delicate question: isn't it a little bit tricky at times if you aren't white? I've heard a lot of mutterings about not v cosmopolitan. No offence.

yes, that whole area is like that, totally 1950s in that respect

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pigeonpie wrote: »

Ok, so I'll tell her Kent then! Her husband wants to go up to Northampton and commute from there but she'd like to stay within London. Hither Green is too expensive - is there anywhere in that (Lewisham) sort of direction that is nice (ok not Catford).

A road near us had a 3 storey mid terrace victorian, nicely done up, for £625 and sold in 3 weeks. The same house would have been about £500 in 06/07. I think it obviously depends where you are, but I don't see SE3 and SE10 going down for anything nice. Flats yes, we are at least 10% down on this one if not more.

If he needs to communte to Northampton why not move to Herts or Essex?

davsidipp

pigeonpie wrote: »

ahem, delicate question: isn't it a little bit tricky at times if you aren't white? I've heard a lot of mutterings about not v cosmopolitan. No offence.

what about eltham i live in new eltham and although not as nice as it used to be no way is it a racist area i think you have been watching too much telly.

davsidipp

and when has lewisham been nice?relative has lived there for years and is scared to go out at night also lots of traffic another area because of the docklands light railway has become hip.

Gingernutmeg

Plumstead is vile, and the estate agents there should be avoided like the plagues of hell. Dodgy all round and really not somewhere to be recommended. Avoid it, along with Erith, Bexleyheath, Welling, Thamesmead, Woolwich, Shooter's Hill and pretty much anywhere round there.

Blackheath is the nicest part of that area but you'll pay a lot to live there, and there are parts of Greenwich which are ok, but again you pay a premium. I've heard that Eltham is supposed to be becoming a new 'trendy' middle-class family area (at least it was touted as such in one of the broadsheets a while back) but I can't say I saw a lot of it when I lived round there.

ninky_2

pigeonpie wrote: »

Prices in nearby "less posh" areas of SE London seem to have fallen a bit. Does anyone know what Plumstead is like to live in or if there is a good or less good bit of it? It looks a bit nicer than Thamesmead (?). My neighbour has a little girl and really wants to move to somewhere with a garden where a house costs under £250k, but where she feels safe moving around on her own. Thanks if anyone has any ideas.

Unless you are really stuck on SE London, NE London has better options IMO. You can get a house in Haringey sub 250k, with a garden and family friendly. Especially around the Broadwater farm area which has had so much investment and so many social programmes following the race riots and murder of PC Blakelock its a pretty safe place to live these days (with an architecturally award winning nursery too).

ninky_2

mouche wrote: »

The schools aren't very good apparently - not having kids I can't say from experience.

I had a friend that went to Plumstead Manor (girls secondary). Out of her year only her and one other girl ended up going on to do a degree.

puddy

Nooooooooo why are people alwayssaying that north london is better than south london

mind you i cant talk, im moving from south london to the coast, so im obviously not that keen!!!!