Where to live?

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I've recently separated from my partner- we have a three year old and are currently all living together in a very small flat in Islington. The pressure is on to move as there is also a new girlfriend on the scene...

I have around £350k and thought this would be enough for a small house or garden flat in the kingston/ surbo area (close to my family and commutable to W'loo where I work). It is proving a total nightmare. House prices feel like they are going up every month.

I need to be relatively close to London for my daughter to be able to see her Dad/ get to work etc. but I dont know the area so well, despite weekly visits to view places over the past few months.

Does anyone have any recommendations of places nearby that are more affordable with good schools and decent transport links to London?

Any advice greatly welcome...

Maybe try a little further out of Kingston - Hinchley Wood, Hampton Court (East Molesey), Thames Ditton, Claygate. They hall have train lines into Waterloo. I think Surbiton tends to be expensive as it has a fast train to Waterloo.

[[http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42822400.html This] garden flat is no beauty from the outside but sounds like it might meet your criteria and is well within your budget (although it's only a guide price).

Our son is 16 and is disengaged from almost everything. He says he cannot think about September (or indeed the future) and although he has 3 post 16 offers, I cannot see him taking any of them up. He is suffering from anxiety and probably depression. This has been going on a for a while although he did do his GCSEs. He is spending a lot of time on his own or in bed. He is receiving counselling (talking therapy) and is seeing a child psychologist (CBT) and we have also been offered a CAMHS appointment later in August. I don't know how to deal with him, adopting the softly softly approach is OK on a day to day basis but I am not sure it will help get him back on track. Have any of you mums out there gone through this and how did you deal with it? Really worried.