My husband’s got a new job split between Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital and I work just by Trafalgar Square. Commute time is really important as my husband works on call (including over night) and needs to be able to get to work in under 30 mins. I’d also like a commute which is 40mins or less. I’m pregnant so we’d like to live in a safe area which is good for families with lots of green spaces and good schools as we’d like to find a place we can settle long term (or at least for a few years). I’d like to find a place with a nice community feel, a nice high street and where there’ll be mum and baby groups I can go to and make mum friends as none of my friends have children yet.
In case it impacts on the areas you’d recommend, we’re both from fairly ordinary backgrounds (my mum’s a teacher and dad’s a surveyor, husband & I both went to local comps in the North) so I worry I’d find it hard to make friends living somewhere like Chelsea if most people I’d meet would be the family money type as I’d find it hard to relate/find common ground.
Our budget is £700k to buy a place or £2.5k renting and we’d need a 2 bed. We’d love a second bathroom and bonus if we can get a 3 bed but location is the most important thing as we expect to save a good amount over the next few years and then upsize.
Thanks in advance for your help and advice!