Are there any cheap london areas that are nice places to live-suggestions please

hedgehogpenguin

lynzpower wrote: »

\ OH pointed out that we have lived in leytonstone since January and has not once yet seen a "yellow board" the whole time weve lived up there. Now, by london standards, that to me says NICE.

maybe they steal them before you see them ?

Bargain_Rzl

I agree that Crystal Palace has already seen substantial price rises in anticipation of the ELL extension. It used to be a good "investment" area but now it's simply a nice place to live, and not worth buying in the current climate unless you simply want to buy there anyway.

CB1979_2

yeah crystal palace is about as nice as west croydon! :eek:

i'm assuming you people must be talking about specific areas of crystal palace as my experience of the crystal palace ain't too nice!

Bargain_Rzl

The town centre is nice these days, with some nice bars and restaurants - but the residential bit I like is the bit near the station but on the other side of the main road, i.e. to the the west of Anerley Hill - the Hamlet Road/Fox Hill/Waldegrave Road area with all those big sprawling old houses and house conversions.

jaype

Go beyond the bit Bargain Rzl likes and you'll be in for a shock, though - lots of brick box estates and the local park (Betts) has just received its pre-school summer hols dispersal order from the police... We just moved to SE20 and I am still trying to work out if this was a BIG mistake. Offputting things include walking past a fight in the street yesterday which started in front of me after one random bloke accused another random person of looking at them. Maybe they put testosterone in the water round here as a science experiment? Luckily we are renting, so it isn't 10k of stamp duty down the toilet if we change our minds. With any of the cheaper areas, best advice is to try living there before you buy...

Doozergirl

CB1979 wrote: »

yeah crystal palace is about as nice as west croydon! :eek:

i'm assuming you people must be talking about specific areas of crystal palace as my experience of the crystal palace ain't too nice!

Oh perlease! Nowhere is as bad as West Croydon

Doozergirl

jaype wrote: »

Go beyond the bit Bargain Rzl likes and you'll be in for a shock, though - lots of brick box estates and the local park (Betts) has just received its pre-school summer hols dispersal order from the police... We just moved to SE20 and I am still trying to work out if this was a BIG mistake.

Betts Park is firmly into Anerley, bordering the craps bits of Penge, Birkbeck and South Norwood (which is all crap). I grew up in Crystal Palace and had never heard of Betts Park until I just Googled it. And no, I wouldn't live down there either.

Beaulah Hill and most of the roads off it are lovely, as Bargain Rzl says, Fox Hill and surrounding is lovely, most of it is, in fact, lovely. Church Road is neglected at one end and there is an ugly council estate near to Gipsy Hill train station. Other than that, I'm struggling. Anerley is a bit of a hole but there are often good buys to be had up near to the train station and you can't really deny the huge villas that front on to the park along Thicket Road. Going down Crystal Palace Park Road, I would love to live in one of those huge Victorian Villas, they are really something. Penge is full of chavs, but it is very neat and tidy and really well maintained by Bromley Council.

RedTomato

Crystal Palace, hmmm..
My friend who lives off Grange Road moved in there a couple of years ago. Burgled twice (seems OK since got alarm). Bought car a few months ago, just a cheap old runner, it has had its back window smashed twice in the past few months, same happened to their neighbours.

Doozergirl

Crikey, you lot really like to push the boundaries of what Constitutes Crystal Palace :rolleyes:

Bargain_Rzl

Just one more thing to be aware of about Crystal Palace... if you need to use public transport and have any sort of mobility problems, think twice about having Crystal Palace as your local station. It has great train services but you practically need to be a mountaineer to get between platforms