need suggestions on areas to live in london.

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Hi everyone,
my family and i are planning to relocate to london or suburban, we will be renting at the moment at least for a year or two, with 3children( 12yrs, 10yrs and 9months.) we are looking for quiet, family friendly areas of london. we need idea from families about the areas they live or have lived before, or visited. please we need your help. we are working family on a tight budget.

Watford looks promising - anyone know Watford well?

2 bed house near Ofsted Outstanding rated infants & junior schools £850

3 bed near excellent infant / junior schools (on paper) £995 Watford

Plenty more in Watford, but I need to go to bed :)

A couple more (I enjoy this - can you tell? )

Another 3 bed in Watford £1050

And another 3 bed £1200

In your shoes I'd give Watford and those other stops going (North out of London) serious consideration, it'd be an easy commute to work for your DH (which is priceless in London! I've never had less than a 45 minute journey to work living in London, and usually over an hour). Also it might not be too pricey if he doesn't need to go into zone 1 on a regular basis.

Also there seems to be a choice of Ofsted good and outstanding infant/junior schools (I didn't look at secondaries).

What's it like to live there? I have no idea!

Here's a tube map to help with your search

And here's a map which also shows rail services

Oops, a bit of a (bracket) fail there!

Is is easy to get to your DH's work from Wembley Park? If so that opens up all the areas near the Metropolitan line too, like Pinner, Northwood, Ruislip etc.

Or you'll get more for your money outside London - this is 2 miles from Ricksmansworth tube - if the journey to the tube is reasonable, might be worth a look?

there's more than one station in Wembley so find out which one he'll be going into and work out of town from there (Wembley isn't actually all that expensive for London which means you'll definitely need to be further out - but again, watch the commuting costs). North-west London isn't cheap.

threefeethighandrising:thanks, actually considering watford, seems reasonable rentwise and easy commute. very helpful link aswell, appreciated. mrsoakenshield: thanks a lot.