What's High Brooms area like (Tunbridge Wells)?

mrjack

Hello,

We recently decided to purchase a property in High Brooms, due to relative cheap cost of houses and easy commute into London.

Can anyone tell us what the High Brooms area is like to live in? We have read mixed reviews and would like some more opinions.

Thanks

BitterAndTwisted

Erm, wouldn't it have been better to have asked this before you purchased a property there? The normal course of events would have been to have spent time in the area at different days and times of the week to get a feel for the place to ensure you'd be happy living there. The sort of nieghbourhood which would suit one person may not suit another.

mrjack

Thanks for the "helpful response". We haven't bought anything yet and am just looking for helpful opinions.

BitterAndTwisted

My bad. When you said had "decided to buy a property" I thought the decision had already been made and a property purchased.

In that case, disregard my first sentence, act upon the second and give consideration to the third.

VioletBaudelaire

I've got no knowledge of the area myself, but about a year ago I was having a conversation with a friend who was brought up in Tunbridge Wells (and whose parents still live there)
I asked him what it was like there and he said that TW itself was nice, but that all the chavs came into it from High Brooms.
As I said, not my opinion, but he should know I suppose!

Running_Horse

I've heard similar things to VB, but TW can be a very snooty place, so everything is relative.

mrjack

Ark - that would explain the cheaper prices then!

Been there over the weekend and it seemed OK - haven't seen any chav-like activity. Certainly not in TW itself. Need to have a think...

Thanks all for the replies.

pingu2209

I live very close to Tunbridge Wells. The south of the city is the 'nicest' part. High Brooms is not the south. It does have a station there so getting to London is easy but the main station is in Tunbridge Wells itself, which you can walk to if you live in the south of the city.

High Brooms is the 'worse' side of Tunbridge Wells, schools are rubbish and there is a lot of cheaper housing there.

Normally if there is a good commuter line to London but the area is cheap - it is because it is a rubbish area; High Brooms is no exception.