Nice places to live within an hour commute of London

[Jadey16]

Hi everyone

My dh Has been offered a job in Central London, we currently live in the south west and own a 4 bed semi detached house with lots of off road parking, in London a similar house is worth 500k if not more. I’ve looked on rightmove at so many areas and they are all so expensive. Personally I don’t think we can afford to do it, is there anywhere within an hour commute of London that has houses around 280k or less in a nice area? Happy to downsize to a 3 bed with off road parking, safe and decent schools.The new job isn’t paid that well for the first couple of years, but after that he will earn well and it comes with great future prospects so we really want to go for it, but I can’t see how it would be possible. Any one want to prove me wrong?

Thanks

Have you looked along the M4 corridor or with a main line railway station? Bristol/Keynsham/Bath/Swindon ?

Another vote for Leighton Buzzard. Property is reasonable compared to some of the other nearby towns, the commute is around 30 mins to Euston, it seems great for kids and in my experience, isn't rough. The station is on the Linslade side of town but it's walkable from quite a lot of LB. Nice place to live!

Thanks for everyone input, have a few things to think about and places to look at!

In south Bucks you could maybe get a 2 bedroom flat for £280000, if you see any houses for that sort of price they will be in not very nice areas.

You definitely won't get anything in Sidcup for that price. We've just bought a 2 bed terrace and it cost us £340k

Try Hemel Hempstead or Watford...

High Wycombe, Aylesbury. Have good primaries and grammars