To ask what demographic Ealing is?

[neverkillamockingbird]

Hi,
Dh is being relocated to Ealing this year after years abroad.
We both come from middle class backgrounds and I was born and raised in maidavale.

Many years abroad and now I’m completely out of the loop.

What demographic is Ealing? Whilst visiting whilst looking for houses, I can’t seem to put my finger on it. We are thinking of haymills if anyone knows?

Schools are very important to me as we have 3 children, but there aren’t any grammar schools....

Should I go private?

Sorry I’m completely lost in this situation and it’s been hectic to try and research or buy as I’m oversees.

Any advice is very appreciated.

Thanks for all your helpful messages.

I wasn’t specifically looking for Boden or Waitrose! But these shops as well as a couple of others specifically open in areas within their wanted target audience.

You can google the “Waitrose effect” for more information. Having a Waitrose local to you can even increase the value of your property.

People can call me a snob for wanting to live in a safe, “not rough as fuck” area with good schools. That’s what most people do before buying a house.
If that makes me a snob...then I don’t really care!

Thank you for the suggestions of Northfields and pitshanger, I will take a look.

Yes I was looking at the houses in Park Royal, as they are quite spacious with good size gardens, but it’s a residential area and quite quiet so found it difficult to gauge the area etc.

And if it makes people happy I can spell it Maida Vale.

I’m just used to writing maidavale and my phone autocorrects to this now.

For instance, all these are in Ealing. That took 30 seconds.

Use Google Earth to look at surrounding areas.

I think some people are being harsh towards the OP. Moving back from abroad is stressful. I wouldn’t choose to live in Ealing having worked there previously but all of London is mixed and you generally have to buy a home wherever your budget allows.

Ealing Centre has lovely restaurants and cafes galore and better shops than Waitrose. No need to worry there!

I think there may even be a Wholefoods

Thanks for that seven777

Budget is 1M to 1.5M ....
Hence it seemed to bring up Park Royal/haymills

Looking at pitshanger the houses seem all to be terraced/semi detached for same price though

@AnAC12UCOinanOCG I just laughed coffee out my nose

Surely you can gauge it by house prices!?
Anyway. Live in Chiswick.

There’s this one, if you don’t mind 1930s houses? It’s modern and revisited inside. It’s just to the back of Ealing Common and all the shops there. A short walk from the Broadway.

Probably more spacious than most Victorian houses in the area and not much needs doing?

renovated not revisited!

“You can google the “Waitrose effect” for more information. Having a Waitrose local to you can even increase the value of your property.”

I think you’ve been away too long OP

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2019/jul/31/does-lidl-bring-down-house-prices-waitrose

I’ll just leave this here.

I would look at other parts of SW London. Richmond, Chiswick, Kew are all easy for Ealing.

Thank you seven777.
I’ll check it out, looks lovely so far

Also, if you want an independent prep / primary, I can recommend Orchard House School in Chiswick which prepares for 11 plus (up to Year 6). Its part of the House Schools Trust, they also have two other schools in Kensington and Putney. My DC went to one of these others and I can’t speak highly enough. I know people at Orchard House and they feel the same.

I don’t know about state primaries in Ealing, but I do know that if you could get into the catchment for Grove Park Primary in Chiswick it’s meant FK be fantastic. Probably pushed house prices round there upwards though?

If you are Catholic by any chance there’s a secondary school called St Benedicts in Ealing way that’s very popular and easier to get in.

There’s also Notting Hill and Ealing High for girls (which may have a juniors I think)? Selective, but not so tricky as say Latymer Upper etc.

People can call me a snob for wanting to live in a safe, “not rough as fuck” area with good schools.

You banged on about being MC and wanting a typical MC area is different from wanting somewhere with low crime and excellent state schools.

Upthread, someone already posted a link to the website where you can look up state schools.

For crime, go to the Met Police website. Stats are done on a borough level but there’s also a ‘safer neighbourhoods’ section where you can check a ward where a particular house is.

Intrigued to know what sort of job would pay enough to private school 3 kids and have a £1.5 million house yet require the person to live in the same borough as the site. Surely someone that senior would have junior staff to hold the fort till he arrived from a longer commute away?

Ludicrous Hyacinth Bucket post without revealing your budget, op.
Ealing has some pretty pricey properties; maybe you couldn’t actually afford them?

And the thing about not being able to commute as your dh has to be “on site, ASAP, at all times” is just pure nonsense.

The Twyford Trust now have four secondary schools.
Academic challenge is high.
For schools I'd start with them.

I think you need to take a more nuanced approach OP. I live in a bit of south London that some people (like my husband) would describe as “rough as fuck”. But the houses cost £1.5m, the schools are genuinely outstanding - from a full orchestra at the local primary to a sweep of leavers heading to top unis each year - and there’s a lot of middle class people (because they’re the ones with time on their hands) running community arts festivals and the like. So we have to order our Boden and Waitrose online .

@EssentialHummus doesn't sound that rough, then.

JoJo my DH would look at the high street and say that what we've got are four chicken shops, an Iceland, a betting shop, a couple of cheap mobile phone places/internet cafes, a jerk chicken shop, a charity shop etc and say that our area is shit because his definition of a nice middle class area includes (literally, because we've had this convo) Gail's Bakery, JoJo Maman Bebe, Waitrose/M&S and an artisanal coffee place. I think that that's a poor approach to assessing the area, particularly given how much shopping is done online these days.

... and I think that OP might be falling into the same trap.

London is an incredible mix of demographics in fairly small area. I live in a very nice part of Haringey complete with Waitrose and JoJo Maman Bébé. I heard the other day that the difference in average life expectancy between the West and East of the borough is 12 years. That is shocking.

To me 'rough as fuck' would mean stabby rather than lacking in boutiques.

When you get here, do not and I stress Do Not, refer to anywhere, or anyone, as chichi