DH and I are Londoners but have lived about 30 miles outside (NW Essex/Herts) for many years and now want to move back. DC have fled the nest.
Ironically we could not afford to buy our first home again, a lovely Edwardian terrace as it was in a very good area that has shot up in price!
We will have about £550,000, - 600,000 at a pinch - to spend but cannot decide on what areas to consider. We are looking for a 2-bed terrace or garden flat fairly near a tube station, or other transport links, in a lively-ish area with OK shops/pubs/restaurants. (Fed up with the country being fairly dead six months of the year even though it has been a great place to bring up kids, excellent schools etc). We now want somewhere with a little more life!
I think it needs to be fairly central but in a not-very fashionable area, perhaps. Garden a definite requirement.
So tell us about your favourite areas, we'd be very grateful for any suggestions and ideas.
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Tartyflette · 10/07/2016 11:06
Thank you all for your suggestions, we have just got back from checking out Walthamstow! We liked it very much, we also looked at Stroud Green which was a little more expensive but may be just about possible.
So we shall now venture South of the River (north and east londoners in origin but what the hell, we will gratefully check out all the areas suggested.)
I will also be working through the links you very helpfully posted, many thanks again for all the advice.
(i swim most days so am deffo interested in the pool)
And sorry, it should have read an Edwardian terraced.....
DPs lived in Epping and we know it well, perhaps a little too well....
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