Is South Ruislip a good area to buy a house

carolt

I think if you want a dull safe suburb, with some shops, that's what it is. Don't know about schools - check out league tables. Ruislip Lido is somewhere nearby - never been, but always meant to - sounds lovely.

If you want to be near the bright lights big city, it's the wrong place.

jonewer

Its rubbish, no kangaroos there at all and if you're a kangaroo hunter like me that just isnt good enough.

Nikkster

carolt wrote: »

I think if you want a dull safe suburb, with some shops, that's what it is. Don't know about schools - check out league tables. Ruislip Lido is somewhere nearby - never been, but always meant to - sounds lovely.

If you want to be near the bright lights big city, it's the wrong place.

I went to Ruislip Lido for the first time on Saturday (and was impressed enough to go back on Sunday)! I don't think I had amazingly high hopes, but I was nicely suprised. There isn't an amazing amount to do, but it was a good way to spend a sunny couple of days

tanith

Nikkster wrote: »

I went to Ruislip Lido for the first time on Saturday (and was impressed enough to go back on Sunday)! I don't think I had amazingly high hopes, but I was nicely suprised. There isn't an amazing amount to do, but it was a good way to spend a sunny couple of days

My daughter told me it was absolutely mobbed on Sunday, cars parked all over the gaff:eek:

When my kids were small we spent all Summer at the Lido, but that was in the days when it had a fabulous swimming area and they also had rowing and paddle boats, and the British water skiing championships were held there.. it also had a LOT MORE WATER in those days, nowadays the level is much lower hence No more swimming pool...shame...

chucky

Ruislip is ok - towards Northwood is the nicer part.
towards Northolt and the A40 it's less nice but still ok.

i guess it's what you can afford and if you find the right property.
i often drive through there and there isn't much for sale and what there is seems to get sold pretty quickly.

marklv

I lived in central Ealing for three years when I was younger (renting, needless to say). Even in the early 90s it was very expensive, but now it's utterly prohibitive. Nice area if you can afford it - but if I had serious money I would probably go for Richmond.

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

I went to Ruislip Lido for the first time on Saturday (and was impressed enough to go back on Sunday)! I don't think I had amazingly high hopes, but I was nicely suprised. There isn't an amazing amount to do, but it was a good way to spend a sunny couple of days

Do they still have the train that goes from the car park to the swimming area?

tanith

Generali wrote: »

Do they still have the train that goes from the car park to the swimming area?

The train is still there although I heard it was vandalised a couple of weeks ago, it does go to the beach/paddling area but there is absolutely no swimming anymore... such a shame..my kids couldn't wait to get there when they were little it was like spending every day at the seaside...

tanith

marklv wrote: »

I lived in central Ealing for three years when I was younger (renting, needless to say). Even in the early 90s it was very expensive, but now it's utterly prohibitive. Nice area if you can afford it - but if I had serious money I would probably go for Richmond.

Ealing Town itself has always been very expensive but there are lots of parts of Ealing that are affordable its a big Borough..

ruggedtoast

tanith wrote: »

The train is still there although I heard it was vandalised a couple of weeks ago, it does go to the beach/paddling area but there is absolutely no swimming anymore... such a shame..my kids couldn't wait to get there when they were little it was like spending every day at the seaside...

Vandalised, what a shame. There really are some tiny little minds out there that think vandalising a kiddies train thats run by volunteers is a fun way to spend an evening.

The lido is a really nice visit, the carvery in the pub is diabolical (£3.50!), parking is a problem, theres a nice cafe and kids love the train.

There arent many places to go in that area though. You're sort of sandwiched between London and Watford. I do like it though, we've just moved away from there due to work and I have many happy memories of living around there.

Its spared a lot of the grossness that happens in other bits of London.

As chucky said theres not a lot for sale around the area and things go pretty fast. I quite like the 1930s houses, theyre a lot smaller on the inside than they appear from the outside though.