Is South Ruislip a good area to buy a house

chirp

Can anyone let me know whether South Ruislip (near tube station) is a good area to buy a house? How is the crime rate, is it safe? Will property prices increase in this area? Are there good GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists? Are there good schools? Feedback from anyone living in this area would be appreciated. :question:

Who are the best and most reliable estate agents in the area? Does anyone want to sell their 3 bedroom house at walking distance of South Ruislip tube station? I am looking.

chucky

it has a Sainsbury and the Goals there isn't bad for a touch of 5-a-side

tanith

I live near Sth Ruislip can't tell you about the schools etc but its a nice enough area, has excellent links to A40/M25.. its on the Harrow side of the A40 considered by some to be a 'better area' although its actually in Hillingdon. I have family living locally and they don't seem to have any problems with crime particularly and I would say its a pretty 'safe' area.. traffic in the rush hour can get on your nerves trying to get out of the area its always VERY BUSY.. and if something goes wrong on the A40 then its appalling.. price you pay for being near the main routes I guess.. it has a Sainsbury and a shopping area containing, Wickes, Homebase, Argos, Comet , Currys, Furnitureland and various others. It has quite a choice of Hospitals, Mount Vernon, Hillingdon, Ealing , Northwick Park all in the area.
As I say I live in Northolt which is closeby and have lived here for 14yrs and had no bad experiences with any of the things you mention..

marklv

chirp wrote: »

Can anyone let me know whether South Ruislip (near tube station) is a good area to buy a house? How is the crime rate, is it safe? Will property prices increase in this area? Are there good GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists? Are there good schools? Feedback from anyone living in this area would be appreciated. :question:

It's a long tube journey to get to the City. I would go somewhere on the Waterloo train line, e.g. Woking, Twickenham, etc.

chirp

Its well connected to my work via Central line. Just wanted to know how the area is? Thanks for your reply.

Davesnave

You might do better on the other housing forum (House Buying.)

Here, we discuss virtual and theoretical houses rather than real ones, and at least half of us live in a different universe from other Britons.

ruggedtoast

Most of that swathe of London is nice. Northolt where the RAF base is is nice, Northolt where the tube station is is horrible but its some way away.

Ruislips nice and feeds into Pinner which is lovely. The outskirts of Harrow are OK and the Pinner End of Rayners Lane is nice too.

Uxbridge is nice too.

When_is_the_reset?

If you want a house in South Ruislip, near a tube station, I can think of no better place to buy a house.

If you want a house in Norwich, nowhere near a tube station, then don't buy one in South Ruislip.

Conrad

Nooo, me and my mate often muse about the most depressing parts of gresater London and that whole Ruislip / Northolt area we always have said is so depressing. Endless rows of 1930's houses, so homegenous and uniform, not enough lush green - even the trees are depressing, poplars and small utiliterian cherries, and everything covered in a wierd layer of dust. I get utterly depressed going throuhg that area and can never get my head around people wanting to live there. Incidentally my Aunt used to live in Northolt and I remember even as a child I couldn't wait to get back to the lush greenery of East Herts.

tanith

Conrad wrote: »

Nooo, me and my mate often muse about the most depressing parts of gresater London and that whole Ruislip / Northolt area we always have said is so depressing. Endless rows of 1930's houses, so homegenous and uniform, not enough lush green - even the trees are depressing, poplars and small utiliterian cherries, and everything covered in a wierd layer of dust. I get utterly depressed going throuhg that area and can never get my head around people wanting to live there. Incidentally my Aunt used to live in Northolt and I remember even as a child I couldn't wait to get back to the lush greenery of East Herts.

There are parts of Northolt that have flats and lots of houses but I don't think you ever walked around the area.. I have 3 golf courses within 5mins walk of my house, two farms, and lots of green fields also within 5mins walk... I can walk along footpaths and not see a house or a car and also take a walk along the canal which is peaceful and quiet... you seem to be talking about a completely different place to the Northolt where I live ...I guess we all see different things in a place..

Generali

I spent the first five years of my life in Ruislip. My parents hated it, too suburban with all the disadvantages of City living and many of the disadvantages of country living or at least of being out of the centre.

We moved to rural Surrey which was nice. I moved back to London as soon as I could though.