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

loveandlight

A very good friend of mine lives in Chingford. I have visited her several times in the past and think the place is awful. A few people think its nice whenever I have mentioned the place, so what is it about Chingford that is nice? What am I not seeing that others are seeing? I'm going to be moving closer to London shortly so will be needing somewhere to live, so am reading this thread with a lot of interest.

lynzpower

Love& light- thou countryside its lush. the nearer you are to woodford the better- im not too sure about the other way, but we drove through some lush places, filled with farms and country pubs :j

trf1960

EVERYWHERE has its good and bad areas - no matter how expensive 'some' of the houses may be in that post code. You just have to spend as much time as you possibly can driving around/shopping/eating out/visiting parks whatever in the area that you are looking to move into to gain any insight into the area (and more importantly the people).

suffolkb

I really liked Walthamstow although I only bought there cos I couldn`t afford Tottenham. If my job hadn`t left London, I think I would still be there - only in the `village`. I paid £21,000 in Aug 1982 for a 2 bed maisonette. The house opposite me seems to have been converted now and the asking price for a 3 bed maisonette is £250,000. (E17 7qh on rightmove). Lovely area.

charley1965

loveandlight wrote: »

A very good friend of mine lives in Chingford. I have visited her several times in the past and think the place is awful. A few people think its nice whenever I have mentioned the place, so what is it about Chingford that is nice? What am I not seeing that others are seeing? I'm going to be moving closer to London shortly so will be needing somewhere to live, so am reading this thread with a lot of interest.

Chingford is split into North and South and there's a big difference. I'm willing to bet your friend lives in South Chingford! Some areas are horrible. North Chingford is lovely especially leading up to the forest and the golf course, very expensive and sought after. South Chingford is much cheaper and has a big council estate called Chingford Hall Estate which everyone local knows to avoid like the plague. Property is much cheaper on that side. Does your friend live near there?

Example North Chingford

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-7114974.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy

loveandlight

Posted by charley1965
Chingford is split into North and South and there's a big difference. I'm willing to bet your friend lives in South Chingford! Some areas are horrible. North Chingford is lovely especially leading up to the forest and the golf course, very expensive and sought after. South Chingford is much cheaper and has a big council estate called Chingford Hall Estate which everyone local knows to avoid like the plague. Property is much cheaper on that side. Does your friend live near there?

Example North Chingford

Our friends live next to Chingford Mount. Can't say too much more as I know they frequent this site also ( one of the downsides of recommending it to friends and family!).

Melissa177

Some parts of Beulah hill are okay, but you have to go to West Norwood station to get into town IIRC. West Norwood train station scared me a bit.

Closer in, I eventually bought in Battersea, where I found some really good bargains around the 170K mark back in Feb. I love it here.

TomBxx_2

I moved from a rented place in West Hampstead to a FTB in Sanderstead (south of croydon). For the same price as a pokey 2 bed flat in West Hampstead, we bought a 3 bed detached house with decent garden close to the BR station.

Although nowhere near as lively as central London, a very pleasant place to live with all amenities close by and only 25 minutes to Victoria and London Bridge.

charley1965

loveandlight wrote: »

Our friends live next to Chingford Mount. Can't say too much more as I know they frequent this site also ( one of the downsides of recommending it to friends and family!).

Ahhh, if it's going towards the dog track and on the right hand side of the main road then I can totally see your point!

RHemmings

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

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

Surely that won't last in today's climate. If it's unfriendly to the disabled they either build better access voluntarily or be forced to when somebody sues them.