Name this place - please!

[Decisionsagain]

Lovely area to live. Commutable to London.

Primary schools with add on nurseries.

Great secondary school with a sixth form.

Not too rural with a nice town centre.

If you live in an area that ticks the boxes, please share. Hubby and I have travelled thousands of miles from the comfort of our living room and still don't know where to go. We can go anywhere - too much choice is not a good thing!!

Thank you!!!!!!

[BackforGood]

Harpenden, Herts

[TheBitterBoy]

Wokingham, Berkshire

[AuntPittypat]

Farnham, Surrey

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

Commutable to London in what sort of time?

Lichfield, Staffordshire ticks your boxes - but the commute is neither short nor cheap.

[jennywren123]

Cambridge

[BikeRunSki]

Forest Row often comes up on threads like this.

[TurboTheChicken]

Forest Hill or Honor Oak Park in South East London, depending where you are commuting to?

[Helenac123]

I can assure you one of the only places which ticks all your boxes is Muswell Hill, N10.

1. Zone 3 (very commutable), definitely not too rural
   
2. Primaries, Rhodes Avenue, Coldfall, Tetherdown top the league tables every year
   
3. Secondaries, the famous Fortismere (v small catchment sub half a mile)
   
4. Town centre - beautiful edwardian facade + excellent shops, from restaurants to boutiques
   
5. It was named one of the Sunday Times' top 5 places to live in London!!!
   
   Only downside: houses are £££££££££

[GhoulWithADragonTattoo]

Tunbridge Wells? There is still the 11+ in Kent though which might put you off.

[curiousgeorgie]

Epsom, Surrey

[Decisionsagain]

Thanks every

[Decisionsagain]

Oops. Thanks everyone. We've thought about all of these. We actually live in one of them and used to live in another. I think it's us. Think we need to decide that nowhere is perfect and stay put. I think one big problem is these places are very expensive - as all nice places are. We could be a couple of hours commute to London but no more.

[PowerPantsRule]

Bournemouth/Poole - we still have the grammar system. New Forest and Purbeck close by. One hour fifty on the train and same to drive into London.

[sunnyweatherplease]

oxford.

[lilsupersparks]

Somewhere further then? Bath?

[typedup]

Not saying. (Tries to fend off Londoners coming in with pots of cash and putting up the house prices).

[QuiteQuietly]

Not Oxford, IMHO. Overpriced, increasingly unlovely and a nightmare for schools.

If under two hours to London is your criteria, then that is pretty wide! I know someone who commutes from York in just under two hours. Which station in London is best for you to arrive in on? I used to do a long-ish commute to London, but the longest and most tedious part of the journey was from mainline station to office.

[MaxsMummy2012]

St albans or cheaper surrounding villages, london colney, wheathampstead, shenley etc