Getting married next year and starting a family soon after hopefully and have just started looking at where we might set up and buy a family home that will work for us for the next 20-25 years. I'm only familiar with a few bits of London (Richmond where I grew up, and Bayswater where I'm living now) so was hoping some mumsnetters could give me some ideas of where to start looking!
We'll be going private the whole way through so primary catchment areas aren't important but do want to be close enough to some good prep schools + not too far from some good private secondaries. 4-5 bedrooms something 1700-2200 sq feet. And absolute max we could scrape together around 2.25m but was hoping to get something around 1.5-1.75 really. The final thing is my parents are in Richmond so ideally would not be too far from them (ruling out North and East)
Richmond is one option, though I do worry that the total commute time will end up being 15 mins too long each way (we both work 60 hour weeks so dont want to have super long commutes)
Walked around Brackenbury village the other day and loved it, and obviously perfect for schools and ok'ish for a commute to the city. Took a look at North Kensington as well, but seemed almost out of our budget + pretty scruffy for such an expensive area!
Any other ideas of where we should look?