Caversham Reading advice please

[Chris001]

Hello,
We are looking at properties in Caversham, Reading and wanted to request any comments if you have any. We have seen a few house (2-3 bedroom Victorian terraces) in Westfield Road, South Street and North Street. We aren't sure if Westfield is noisy as it seems a bit of a short cut (we viewed not during rush hour). Are there any drawbacks to these streets? Thank you for any advice.
Thank you.

Lovely location - I lived not far from it. The River is a massive plus, shops are good. The best thing is walking down the Warren and just ending up in the nature so easily. Downside is getting out of there with a car. If car is for leisure then it's a nice location.

Some of the properties we saw in King's and Queen's road are less then those nearer the high street but seems to be more HMO's neighbours not sure if that's a pro con or neutral.

You could always check RBC’s hmo housing register. All the streets and roads you mention are fine, except for increasingly heavier traffic the nearer you are to a bridge. If you are moving from London, Caversham will seem neither as posh or as rough as suggested upthread.

This is a slightly oddly parochial take - Reading already is a city in everything but name, so genuinely is reasonably cosmopolitan and diverse. There are dodgy bits like there are in every city but also lots of lovely bits, again like there are in every city. Reading's been in The Sunday Times list of best places to live for the last couple of years for a reason.

Lots of Caversham is nice and potentially ticks the OP's boxes, as would lots of the University area.

But if OP wants easy access to London, being somewhere random on a branch line with two trains an hour which stop absolutely everywhere (like Winnersh/Earley) probably won't do the trick.

I've lived here for years and am in the process of moving out because it's really gone downhill.

And I've nothing against diversity so I don't know what you are insinuating there.

It may have been in the Times list but it was out twice in the worst places to live list last year.

I wouldn't like the OP to expect something that it cannot provide.