The area immediately to the north of the hospital is quite mixed, lots of rentals as you might expect and it can be a bit rough. The Keepers Green development a bit further north looks nice though.
What’s your budget? Things have gone a bit bananas in the last few months so a new build might be a solution?
The area to the south of the A27 is nice enough, but you’ll be a bit stranded there. The new Shopwyke Lakes development is quite disconnected from the city.
Westhampnett houses are better value but are mostly on Goodwood land and can be leasehold, so always worth checking.
Big new developments currently going up on the Old Broyle Road to the west of the city.
Bishop Luffa school has good reviews, but it’s CofE so that’s a consideration. Midhurst Rother is good but if you’re south of Lavant you’ll be out of catchment, but they do take out of zone applications. I’ve noticed that Chi High is considered in the lower band of UK secondary schools for some contextual uni offers, they merged the outstanding Girls High with the very middling Boys High a few years ago. The Free School has attractive new premises south of the A27 but no sixth form. Chi College does a mix of A levels and vocational courses.
A27 traffic is pretty bad all year round, and the road down to the Witterings in the summer can be gridlocked. Goodwood circuit event traffic isn’t generally too bad, but if you’re on the approach roads it will be very busy (3 weekends a year).
City centre has a few empty shops (House of Fraser shut down a couple of years ago and is still empty, it’s an awkward old building to reuse) but there’s a good range of shops and restaurants and a new branch of The Ivy is opening shortly. Portsmouth and Southampton or even Guildford aren’t too far away for bigger shopping trips.
Big plus is the fabulous countryside - the Downs to the north and the coast to the south. Gatwick is an hour by car or train (train to London is slow though) and ferry ports aren’t too far away.
And it’s warm and sunny on the whole.