Is South Ruislip a good area to buy a house

tonytee

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.

The Lido is a mini beach on a resevoir, its amazing in the summer, really busy, I was there on Sunday and it was packed.

tonytee

marklv wrote: »

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.

I disagree, the central line is very fast and its probably 20mins into zone one?

Generali

ruggedtoast wrote: »

1930s houses, theyre a lot smaller on the inside than they appear from the outside though.

Hell no. From a 5 y/o's memory the house was rather like growing up in the Albert Hall with Lords for a back garden and the Nile flowing down the back.

Perhaps my memory flatters the old place...

ruggedtoast

Generali wrote: »

Hell no. From a 5 y/o's memory the house was rather like growing up in the Albert Hall with Lords for a back garden and the Nile flowing down the back.

Perhaps my memory flatters the old place...

I think it might!

You could write descriptions for Foxtons though.

Conrad

tanith wrote: »

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..

I had a gf from the general middlesex area area too, and we used to walk around these old quarry pit lakes. To her it was countryside, but to me it there was an omnipresent traffic rumble, dust covering everything and as I say even the vegetation is a bit drab somehow, but I can well imagine a lot of people do not pick up on this.

My Aunt lived in Northolt - row after endless row of suburban 1930's residential streets with utilitarian cherry trees, identicate gardens with old lady plants - roses and pansies, depressing local hall with proud locals and busy bodies, no true lush countryside, too much industyy - just a dismall feel for me. I get the same churning stomach feeling in Birmingham.

Conrad

This is my mental image of the area.

jonewer

To be serious though, if you want a reasonably pleasant house in a reasonably pleasant suburb, Ruislip is reasonably as good as any reasonably comparative area.

You could do much worse!

tanith

Conrad wrote: »

This is my mental image of the area.

No one is saying its lush countryside all I was pointing out that its a lot greener than a lot of other places considering that we are outer London... and a lot greener than you'd think... and if you have to live in London then its hardly one of the worst places...

diable

Full of pampas grass and wife swappers from what I have heard or is that Eastcote? ;p