Moving to London - Where??

lynzpower

Peterxxxx wrote: »

Canada Water too - one stop from Canary Wharf on Jubilee Line and lots of nice riverside and quay developments. It's a really peaceful place with a few pubs (not particularly great) and a Tesco etc, so convenient enough. It has a Wapping calm but lacks the pubs. You can run round Greenwich Quay. Not bad. Wapping is great - not so great for running. Definitely look at Greenwich - it's lovely and you could even walk to work through the pedestrian tunnel. Otherwise, West Hampstead means you are in north London which is certainly a good thing! I would avoid anywhere at all on the Northern Line as you will have to change at London Bridge during rush hour which is a dreadful way to start or end your day.

Canada water IMO is really really boring, a place with nothing but that tescos.

I used to live on the docks there, its lovely, you cant knock the view or the feel but there truly is nothing much there. Occasionally too the docks flood and the tube goes down :eek:


Personal faves would be
Swiss cottage and surrounds if you dont mind the commute
Greenwich
Blackheath ( do you have to get into greenwich and then change to DLR for the wharf?)

If you like slightly grittier Victoria Park village/ roman road bow type areas.

If you want rural feel then out to leytonstone/wanstead/woodford/ chigwell/ all of which you can access on the central line changing at stratford to get onto DLR or the jubilee, and you will have the run of epping forest on your doorstep.

There is a lot of choice here!!

lynzpower

hethmar wrote: »

Hey, thats surrey quays then as my son used to have a house just opposite the wibbly wobbly There is a small shopping development including a big Tesco just a short walk away.

Hey I used to live opposite the wibbly wobbly!! :rotfl::rotfl: small world ( small pub!)

Idonex

Victoria Park. You can run round the park, eat in the trendy cafes and pubs and get the bus to Canary Wharf.

hethmar

lynzpower wrote: »

Hey I used to live opposite the wibbly wobbly!! :rotfl::rotfl: small world ( small pub!)

It is a small world isnt it. I had to go for a tiny eye op in my local city hospital (Norfolk) and the lovely young doctor doing it was telling me he had recently moved up from London, when I asked where he said on the quays by a boat pub called the wibbly wobbly! LOL. Its rather nice to sit on that having a drink isnt it. Also the rowing club is near by.