Hello lovely people,
I'm looking for some advice about Redhill/commuting to London from Surrey. We're desperate to escape noisy neighbours in otherwise gorgeous South Ealing and would like more space - this means buying a house outside London! We've seen a lovely house just north of Redhill station which would make zipping into London great and is close to countryside etc.
However, we've seen lots of comments that Redhill isn't a pleasant place to be - we've heard Godalming, Dorking etc are lovely but there's nowhere currently on the market that ticks our boxes (semi-detached, if not detached, 3 beds, max £650k, commutable to Waterloo or Victoria). Also some of then icer places mean a lot less space for our budget e.g. Guildford.
We like being able to walk to a good pub and have green spaces nearby but are aware we need to compromise if we want a proper house walking distance to a station! And Redhill is actually quite handy re Thameslink rather than just relying on SWR. Wondering if a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush (ie just go for the house in Redhill) or wait for something in our budget/nice to come up in Dorking/Godalming?
More general advice about commuting in Surrey v welcome - thank you!