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To want to escape the ghetto

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N15 · 29/06/2023 08:37

I have name changed for this for obvious reasons.

I live in a part of London that has long resisted gentrification, and has a stubbornly high (and rising) crime rate. Stabbings, and even shootings, are far too common. Neighbours have witnessed shootings, with their children. The local secondaries are seen as finishing schools for criminals, with a lot of gang involvement, and knives carried around.

I really worry about my children when they reach secondary school age. I would sooner home school than send them to the local secondaries, but I don't have the ability to home school due to working. I work as a junior doctor, but the wages are low, especially for London.

Any suggestions for an area with decent schools that doesn't break the bank? I would need 4+ bedrooms. Even open to buying land and building, anything to escape.

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GeriatricMumma · 29/06/2023 08:39

N15 · 29/06/2023 08:37

I have name changed for this for obvious reasons.

I live in a part of London that has long resisted gentrification, and has a stubbornly high (and rising) crime rate. Stabbings, and even shootings, are far too common. Neighbours have witnessed shootings, with their children. The local secondaries are seen as finishing schools for criminals, with a lot of gang involvement, and knives carried around.

I really worry about my children when they reach secondary school age. I would sooner home school than send them to the local secondaries, but I don't have the ability to home school due to working. I work as a junior doctor, but the wages are low, especially for London.

Any suggestions for an area with decent schools that doesn't break the bank? I would need 4+ bedrooms. Even open to buying land and building, anything to escape.

I faced exactly the same situation and moved out to Essex when my oldest was in year 6.

Best thing we ever did.

We now commute in to london, takes about 45 mins.

cestlavielife · 29/06/2023 08:40

How many kids?
Budget £££?
4+ beds is big unless you have huge ££ or go put of london

Whataretheodds · 29/06/2023 08:45

Assume you're thinking of anywhere in the UK?

What's your budget?

Skinnermarink · 29/06/2023 08:48

If you’re well educated enough to be a doctor OP I think you know that there’s no part of London where you can have a four bedroom house in a decent safe area without ‘breaking the bank’ although I suppose it depends on what your budget is. You presumably have to sell your current house in the ‘ghetto’.

Your’e looking at moving out of London and factoring in a commute or changing where you work.

DrManhattan · 29/06/2023 08:49

Ghetto? Bit strong

JuneOsborne · 29/06/2023 08:49

When will you next get the chance to relocate deaneries? Would that be a chance to get out someone where more gentrified?

WhenIWasAFieldMyself · 29/06/2023 08:51

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Beezknees · 29/06/2023 08:52

Do you still want to work in London or do you want to move literally anywhere?

Skinnermarink · 29/06/2023 08:52

Is it Stoke Newington sort of area?

pinguins · 29/06/2023 08:53

I think you'll have to weigh up your priorities and decide whether it's more important to stay in London or have the 4 bedrooms, but I don't think you can do both. If you want to stay in London you will probably need some of your children/family members to share bedrooms. As a guide, there are 5 of us in a 2 bed in a commuter town. That's not uncommon around London. We would like a 4 bed so everyone can have their own space, but we can't afford it around here.

As an aside, I love how everyone is assuming OP is white and racist when "ghetto" is used quite frequently by non-white people to describe very run down areas.

TheCyclingGorilla · 29/06/2023 08:54

North Kent, East Hampshire or around Wellingborough.

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N15 · 29/06/2023 08:55

Skinnermarink · 29/06/2023 08:52

Is it Stoke Newington sort of area?

Not stoke Newington, that is far nicer than where I am, but it's not that far away.

I'm not white. Weird that people would assume that. This is nothing to do with race.

Budget £800k-£1million. That would involve borrowing money from family and selling the house here (it's a horrible area but expensive as in London)

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IDontWantToBeAPie · 29/06/2023 08:55

Leave London if you can. Nice areas are all £££

IDontWantToBeAPie · 29/06/2023 08:56

Oh ok that's a decent budget. You could try Strawberry Fields?

Comedycook · 29/06/2023 08:59

This is hilarious.

A budget of £1million....there are so many places in London where you could buy.

I find it totally bizarre you are even asking the question.

Astitichintimesaveswine · 29/06/2023 08:59

Skinnermarink · 29/06/2023 08:52

Is it Stoke Newington sort of area?

N15 is the borough of Haringey.

Milly16 · 29/06/2023 09:00

If you want to stay in london, you could get a 3/4 bed for 1m around the greenwich/charlton area. Some outstanding primaries and also secondaries

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N15 · 29/06/2023 09:00

Comedycook · 29/06/2023 08:59

This is hilarious.

A budget of £1million....there are so many places in London where you could buy.

I find it totally bizarre you are even asking the question.

Go on them, post some links to places in decent area for the budget. Most aren't places you would want to live.

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As someone from a deprived area in the east midlands, I highly doubt it is what the OP is looking for. We have high levels of poverty and crime ourselves.

fancreek · 29/06/2023 09:02

Skinnermarink · 29/06/2023 08:52

Is it Stoke Newington sort of area?

In what world is stole Newington a ghetto 😂

Comedycook · 29/06/2023 09:02

Blackheath...you will get a decent house for that money.

Hither green
Bromley

fancreek · 29/06/2023 09:02

Comedycook · 29/06/2023 08:59

This is hilarious.

A budget of £1million....there are so many places in London where you could buy.

I find it totally bizarre you are even asking the question.

There are not many nice areas of London where that budget gets you a 4 bed.

UnfortunateTypo · 29/06/2023 09:03

If your budget is that high, go to Cambridge and work out of Addenbrookes. 45 mins into London if you feel like a commute or want a day out. Schools are excellent, and way safer than where you are.

Comedycook · 29/06/2023 09:04

I have a four bed house in an SE postcode....it's quite suburban. Its worth about £550k.