best/nicest places/towns to live with my family outside of London?

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We actually live in Harrogate, Yorkshire, but I'm starting a new job in London and will be moving with my family soon. Two kids 8 and 5. Can you suggest nice places: i.e., with train link (no more than 30-40min ideally to Masrylebone, Pic, Vict or Kings Cross), good schools, interesting coffe shops, restaurants and shopping district,... I've heard of places like Chalfon, Berkhampstead, Beconsfield. Any suggestions? Thank you so much.

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best/nicest places/towns to live with my family outside of London?
We actually live in Harrogate, Yorkshire, but I'm starting a new job in London and will be moving with my family soon. Two kids 8 and 5. Can you suggest nice places: i.e., with train link (no more than 30-40min ideally to Masrylebone, Pic, Vict or Kings Cross), good schools, interesting coffe...

Answer 3

Hi! Surrey is a brilliant place to live. Surbiton, Kingston and Guildford are great - but quite pricey. It depends how much money you have to throw around :-)

I used to live in Woking, which is only 20mins away from Waterloo on the express train. From Waterloo you can go anywhere! Woking is cheaper than Guildford, but there's some very nice parts of it. It is up-and-coming as a commuter town and many new homes are being built. Also take a look at the surrounding areas like Knaphill, Brookwood and West Byfleet. They are an extra 10 minutes on the train, but you get much more for your money! (I live in Knaphill now).

Hope this helps and good luck with the move! :-)
ox Emmie

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The burbs to the south iswhat I am familiar with. Commute into Victoria every day - max journey time 35 mins. Trains from my area go there or london bridge, you can get to charing cross or waterloo with a change and still be there in 40 mins.

Surrey, is a nice place. South of Croydon, so, purley, caterham, whyteleafe, warlingham, carshalton beeches, banstead, coulsdon. These are all areas that you have to travel to get to your interesting shops. Sutton, mmmm, others do but I wouldn't.

Kenley and Woldingham are expensive but lovely, parental home. mucho expensive though, houses tend to start at about £300k if you are lucky. Been in this area most of my life, lived in other places but I still like the green belt area.

Answer 5

Oxford is very nice, not too far. Also hertfordshire has some nice towns.
A great base on the south coast is Brighton, 55mins to Victoria on train, beach, lots of shops - your usual highstreet restaurants and shops but also some more original, interesting ones. Lots for kids to do, and despite the common view is actually a safe environment - no overly 'dodgy' areas! house prices are incraesing steadily though, so be quick!

Answer 6

Beaconsfield is nice and Chalfont is not bad at all. Gerrards Cross is the most upmarket of the towns and villages or there is Denham to consider as well. All these towns are on the Chiltern Line which runs regularly into London Marylebone. I would highly recommend you to avoid living in High Wycombe - that place is nasty although there are some decent schools there worthy of a short commute from Beaconsfield.

Answer 7

Actually Rob you got that the wrong way around! Ilford, Romford etc. are technically London because they are part of London boroughs Redbridge and Havering respectively but because their postcodes are IG or RM and not E some people think of them as Essex. However, people in the know like me know that the Royal Mail explicitly states that postcodes are not geographically accurate and therefore a lot of them are not actually located where they say they are. In regards to the original question, places outside of any London Borough with quick access to Liverpool Street would be Chigwell, Loughton or Buckhurst Hill (known as the Golden Triangle of Essex) they are all located on the Central Line which goes directly to Liverpool Street and as the name implies, they are very pleasant semi-rural areas with nice houses, they are also very good areas to raise children.

Answer 8

Definitely Tunbridge Wells area, the Weald of Kent...40 minutes to London in the morning on the train via Tonbridge, very good shops, good coffee shops, nice place...

Personally I'd recommend a nice village like Goudhurst, Brenchley, Cranbrook, Marden, Horsmonden, Matfield etc...

Hope that helps

Philip

Answer 9

Guildford in Surrey. Surrey generally is a good place to live, but the property prices are fairly high compared with the rest of the commuter belt. I've also heard good things about Dartford in Kent and Chigwell in Essex. Both are within easy reach of central London.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Helloooo I am from near Berkhamsted and my parents still live there. I live in Hemel Hempstead which is next to it. The property prices are sky high here but its very, very convenient for the train direct to Euston station. Berkhamsted has lots of lovely schools, parks and history. It is near to watford which has a big shopping center and as I say, the train takes you straight to Euston in 40mins. On the same line are Leighton Buzzard, Tring, Hemel Hempstead.Worth lookin at for cheaper properties too. Good luck!!