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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57898291.html
Bit of an ask, but anyone recommend nice-ish areas that are walkable (a mile) from the station? Budget £450-500k, don't need 3 beds (but would be nice), prefer a house to a flat.
This is not to say it's inexpensive, it's still a bedroom town for London professionals, but it's more affordable than Guildford.
Depends how much time you want to spend in Guildford town centre proper I guess...
When we moved, though, Guildford was cheaper for a sensibly-sized 3-bed semi than Woking. Woking has Goldsworth Park but that's a fair way from the town centre.
Goldsworth Park has a Waitrose, a Post Office and a meh pub but that's about it, anything else is not walkable for sure.
We're about 2 miles from the town centre - if I'm going to That London Town I normally drive to Woking and park at my dear old mum's - it's quicker and (stuck record, sorry) there are more trains...
The additional cost of the commute (which I don't do regularly but my wife does) is more than offset by the savings on the property.
Whenever I looked at Guildford, Woking, or elsewhere, it just didn't seem like that big a jump in quality of life and the financials were neck and neck.
Fundamentally, I have a ton of green around me, I have a garden and a front patio, I have a studio room for the time being until the nipper gets a bit older, I have access to the big city, museums and venues and pubs. I do hate the commute into work, which is why I never leave before 9:30am and 7:00pm, and I work from home every chance I get. I fucking hate hipsters though, so there is that to contend with.
We are going to have to upsize at some point. I'm hoping the rising property values in my area will facillitate that. Once I learn to drive. There is also the issue of none of my family living in London, and none of my wife's family living in the Midlands - so moving back "home" home isn't really ideal. I'd get bored too. But at the same time, I do want my daughter to have family around her. We've got the wife's sister and her boyfriend. That's it - the rest of her family lives in Japan 90% of the year.
My feedback thread is here.
At the time we bought (which was after the crash in 2008, intentionally) to stay in London we would have had to seriously compromise on either location or property type... so there's very little downside.
Your comment about hipsters reminds me of this though:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=england&locationIdentifier=STREET^1228027&searchLocation=Walnut+Tree+Close
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=england&locationIdentifier=STREET^1791364&searchLocation=Denzil+Road&referrer=listChangeCriteria
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detail.html?country=england&locationIdentifier=STREET^446545&searchLocation=Farnham+Road&referrer=listChangeCriteria
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