Hi,
My husband and I are in our early 30s, have been renting in north London for the past decade or so and looking to buy a house ideally somewhere on the Metropolitan line. We're looking at Chesham and really like the area - have visited a couple of times already - but we're a bit concerned about transport into London for work as we keep hearing the Chesham branch of the met line can be a bit unreliable? Husband works in central and needs to get there 2/3 times a week, I work near Harrow and need to get there Monday-Friday.
I know that trains from Chesham are less frequent than on other branches of the met line but wondered if anyone here is local to the area and can tell me how much of an issue this is in reality? As long as they're reliable I wouldn't mind them being less frequent but eg if cancellations/delays happen a lot that would be a big issue for me in getting to work... Also neither of us drives and have wondered about getting to Amersham by bus (?) and taking the tube from there if we need to but again, don't know how much of a faff this would actually be.
If anyone has any info that would be great - we like everything else about Chesham and seriously looking at options here but it's just the potential transport issue that's holding us back.
Thanks!