to think you can rent privately in London...

[MsMarshmallow]

...in a nice, safe area
...with decent state schools
...less than 30min commute to central London
...not relying on trains

AIBU to think you can get all this for less than £1200 / month for a 2 bed?

Yes, I probably am!

But I had to try though ;-)

Seriously, does such place exist?

SW London (zone 3). We also have the lowest council tax in the country.

Is that Wandsworth?

Yep!

Which part of Wandsworth? That is suspiciously... I mean, surprisingly cheap for the area

Earlsfield. Yes, I get my kicks by inventing fictional affordable housing on the internet

Ealing? Great schools, multiple tubes and fast trains into Paddington.

m.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/20863548?search_identifier=d256fca465c570cca7e1855f8b480e84

Queens Park would probably be out of your budget but a bit further west to Kendal Green could work? Still on Bakerloo line, nice parks and safe area. Kenmont and Leopold are local schools with good ofsteds. Trip into central London would be an additional 10 minutes to what you're doing now. Flats probably bigger in size too.

Sorry, meant Kensal Green.

MamaLazarou my Son and Daughter are just moving to Earlsfield. From Balham. Is it nice there?

Yes, we absolutely love it. It's a great place for young families. Earlsfield Station is a complete nightmare in the mornings, though. I walk down to Wandsworth Town which is far less crowded.

All of south fields, Putney, Earlsfield are lovely now. All gentrified l grew up there and lived for 34 years.
The poster that paid 900 in '93 (morden) was totally ripped off.
I was paying 500 for beautiful flat in south Wimbledon then.

The owner of that beautiful flat in a conservation area offered it to me for 63,000 in' 94. How silly was l to think l could do better things with my money (back then)

That was me in Morden, I remembered wrong, my husband says it was £650 pm. It was a nice flat in a horrible place though. I lived in Earlsfield before that and loved it! Before that I was in Balham high road, before it gentrified, loved it there too.

Yes I could have bought my beautiful garden flat in Ealsfield for 63k in 1994 sob

glasto
I could kick myself.
Last time l looked, it was selling for something like £300,000

Another one.
You reminded me.
My mum was offered a ground floor garden flat, off Putney high Street for £77,000 in '95.
God knows what they are worth now!

Forget any SW postcodes. I've just left SW20 as a 2 bed flat I was living in was having its rent increased to £1,500 and I was no where near a tube station!