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Beaconsfield / Seer Green / Gerrards Cross

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CriticalSeasoning · 05/08/2023 20:56

Hello all. We're going to be looking for a new home for the next few years and we have settled on the Beaconsfield / Seer Green / Gerrards Cross / Chalfonts area. Not really sure about all the pros and cons of each, though I have read a great many threads on here, and articles elsewhere, and have thus received a lot of great information.

We aren't a "posh" family, and we don't have a "keeping up with the Jones's" mentality. We're a bit odd to be honest, very "country"...just looking for a nice house with room for the kids to run around outside, and a nice area with friendly folks. We have 3 school aged kids (all girls), and they are all pretty "different" compared to a lot of kids we meet. Video/board/card games, physical sports, hiking/camping, fishing, reading, cooking - those are the things that make up most of their spare time.

We are lucky in that our work agreement pays for the kids to go to private school and pays for a door-to-door charter service for them, so it doesn't really matter where we live from that perspective.

That said, which of those areas do you all think would be most likely to hold folks that aren't so posh and aren't quite as us / them focused? My kids just won't fit into that sort of a community, or lack thereof. My spouse and I wouldn't either, if we're being honest. Thank you all!

OP posts:
Brumhilda · 18/02/2024 05:33

I’ve lived in both of these towns and I like them both. Gerrards Cross
has more of a village feel and in the cold lite of day is probably 10-15 minutes closer in each direction for your children’s door to door service.

If I’m honest we both preferred GX to Beaconsfield.

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