Big house or Small house

Lord_Baltimore

Big house, small willy - everyone knows that .

Go for location.

dominoman

Thanks all. I think you have helped me decide what my heart was telling me already. Location is more important than a little extra space.

Both houses are realistically big enough for me for the next 3-4 years, and I can't really look ahead further than that as I have no idea what will happen with house prices, not to mention my job or relationship.

BTW the area I am talking about is Catford / Honor Oak Park (which is not as bad as you think - honestly. There are some nice parts and it is gentrifying quickly).

dominoman

brizza wrote: »

How interesting, this is exactly what I'm weighing up at the moment. We're looking at a 3 bed flat in zone 3 (Earlsfield) or a 4 bed house in zone 4/5 (Worcester Park).

Brizza - Interestingly we were looking at Earslfield too. We started looking at Tooting Bec (where I am now) and Tooting Broadway, but Earlsfield is much nicer and has lovely Edwardian housing. And to get out of London at weekends (at least if going SW) it is in a good location.

In the end we only switched to looking SE London as the prices in Earlsfield and Tooting had jumped too much.

wannahouse

15 mins walk means you end up skinnier and fitter too...also means you don't have all the losers who hag about/ pass on the way to and from the train station!

i'd go for bigger!!!
15 mins is nothing in the grand scheme of things and is a chance to have some quiet headspace as you walk, which you don't get alot these days!!

GwylimT

Bigger house means more cleaning and more space to hoard a load of stuff you don't need.