Move to a rubbish street for a great house?

[Billyvoo]

We’re looking to move SW London. Near Teddington, but with a mid-range budget can’t afford a house there.
Just found a place in Hampton, amazing house but the street is mixed some nice, some awful. The local school is just okay. I’m not sure we could stretch to private.
Anyone took the plunge and risked living in an ‘edgy’ street and survived?

I've done worst house best street, and currently in a nice house in a dodgy part of town, and I'd pick this way round every time! You have to live in the house, I only drive through the neighbourhood, if that makes sense. Once my front door is shut (and locked ) I don't mind the location. Our closest shop gets robbed weekly which is irritating though as it closes for 24hr each time, and must be terrible for the poor staff.

We moved to Shepperton 3 years ago and love it here. Lovely little high street, great river walks and pubs and good schools. Much better value for money than Hampton in my opinion as well!

I would rather have a shit house in a good area, than an amazing house in a bad area.

Location location location.

Our closest shop gets robbed weekly which is irritating though as it closes for 24hr each time, and must be terrible for the poor staff. this would not do for me! The best thing about my area is my kids are safe to walk about.

The school would be more of an issue for me with a young child. Twickenham is nice generally, and not so much congestion (unless the rugby is on). Not sure what the schools in Twickenham are like now, though a couple of the girls schools in the area had decent reputations when I lived there.

I've just bought a house slightly over to the nicer side tbf.. but dd plays out near her school so I drop her off with her friends and pick her up again so she would never be walking round here anyway.

I previously lived on the edge of a natural park/attraction and it was an utter ballache with tourists littering and blocking the village with traffic.

All these areas are within 10 minutes drive of eachother!

*Nature not natural

Can you rent in Teddington, get into SMSP/Collis/HWINS and then move a bit further out? I know a fair few people who have done this and the schools in Teddington make the journey from a bit further out worth it..

Location, trust me.

We moved from a rubbish house, on a very nice tree lined street (with THE worlds worst neighbour) to a slightly more hardy street and a nicer house. Now we are detached so the neighbours are no issue.

We did have some youths knocking on the door (playing knock down ginger and hiding behind our front wall) but I inadvertently scared the living day lights out by appearing from a side door behind a bush in trackies/ dressing gown and unkept top bun lol!!! Haha it was brilliant. They screamed like little girls and ran away.

We have also had armed police ambush stop a car right outside the house; I do admit some curtain twitching for that one.

Basically its fine and I love the house. But we can look fairly hardy and unkept and once we get into our trackies people probably think we are more likely to rob them, than be a candidate worthy of robbing. So it depends on how you look potentially?

No don’t do it. If you have terrible neighbours no amount of period features or nice kitchens will make things better. Plus have you seen how much private schools cost? Far better to sink the money into a better house now.

Keep looking and switch it to "rubbish house in great street". You can always improve the house at your leisure.

@Billyvoo

And to everyone else, yes I do think the school is a big issue for me. I think perhaps a small 3 bed flat in Twickenham might be better. Or thinking maybe looking at Shepperton???

£600k would probably get you either an okay ish house in Shepperton (though I'd be wary of flood risk there as there's loads of water nearby), or a small flat in Twickenham/house in Whitton/Hounslow pretending to be Twickenham.

@PickAChewNo. A great house is more than just the rooms inside it. Badly maintained gardens and houses are not a sign of somewhere that is a great place to live.

Could you please tell this to my DH!!! As you may have guessed it’s him that wants to move there. I’d rather be in a smaller less expensive or even same price but better area. He wants value for money. He’s paying though!!