Commuter towns to London

I commute from Amersham when I go into the office (up to 2 / week) on the Met Line. Amersham is nice and Old Amersham has some great restaurants; I live near Great Missenden which also has a direct rail line into Marylebone.

The main issue I find with being at the end of the Met line is that it branches off into trains for Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge so most of the trains don't take me to where I want to go.

Also it's not exactly cheap!
 
Bassmansam said:
The best answer is Bexleyheath. Thriving culturally and house prices are reasonable.
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My brother lives in Beckenham and actually it's pretty nice.

I grew up in North London, but moved away in 2008.

My folks still live there so I go reasonably often, but thing I noticed most about North London is no one speaks English and no one engages with another except out of necessity, I get the "feeling" the place is going down, you can tell by growing up there.

However, no word of a lie, last time I was in Beckenham, on a Sunday morning walking back from the cafe, walked past a family on the street, mutual acknowledgement, smile and a "good morning" .

That is common where I live now as I live in a little rural village, but was nice to experience that in what effectively is London (ok technically Kent).
 
BUDFORCE said:
My brother lives in Beckenham and actually it's pretty nice.

I grew up in North London, but moved away in 2008.

My folks still live there so I go reasonably often, but thing I noticed most about North London is no one speaks English and no one engages with another except out of necessity, I get the "feeling" the place is going down, you can tell by growing up there.

However, no word of a lie, last time I was in Beckenham, on a Sunday morning walking back from the cafe, walked past a family on the street, mutual acknowledgement, smile and a "good morning" .

That is common where I live now as I live in a little rural village, but was nice to experience that in what effectively is London (ok technically Kent).
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London is like that all over tbh.

British people are in the minority in London now.
 
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BUDFORCE said:
My brother lives in Beckenham and actually it's pretty nice.

I grew up in North London, but moved away in 2008.

My folks still live there so I go reasonably often, but thing I noticed most about North London is no one speaks English and no one engages with another except out of necessity, I get the "feeling" the place is going down, you can tell by growing up there.

However, no word of a lie, last time I was in Beckenham, on a Sunday morning walking back from the cafe, walked past a family on the street, mutual acknowledgement, smile and a "good morning" .

That is common where I live now as I live in a little rural village, but was nice to experience that in what effectively is London (ok technically Kent).
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Are you confusing bexleyheath with beckenham?
 
Nasher said:
London is like that all over tbh.

British people are in the minority in London now.
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Genuine question - when you post up stuff like this, do you actually consider anything or google anything? Does it even register on your radar that there could be actual statistics to prove you wrong and just make you look a tit?

'Cos last time I checked 60% is still a fairly decent majority.

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Demography of London - Wikipedia

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Having used to live in Reading, I'd check it out. It's been a number of years since I left there and out of the UK, but my previous visit showed it's still very alive as a town. It has a direct train into Paddington which is 20 minutes as well.
 
agnes said:
Having used to live in Reading, I'd check it out. It's been a number of years since I left there and out of the UK, but my previous visit showed it's still very alive as a town. It has a direct train into Paddington which is 20 minutes as well.
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Yea I like reading, I went there earlier this year and had a really good walk around it.

Also was the first in the Wetherspoons there on a weekday morning, only for breakfast mind you, wish I did have a pint now.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Hilarious. As if we only want white people in the UK, or even deserve the lovely demographics
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Actually I prefer it.

I live in a little village there is basically just white British here.

I lived in London for 25 years and personally I don't think multiculturalism, or what you want to call it makes for a nice place to live.

Just my personal opinion.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Actually I prefer it.

I live in a little village there is basically just white British here.

I lived in London for 25 years and personally I don't think multiculturalism, or what you want to call it makes for a nice place to live.

Just my personal opinion.
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Strong opinion. I prefer multiculturalism. If nothing else, we need to widen the gene pool. But it makes life much more interesting.
 
I grew up in a rural town that was 99% White British. At primary school i don't recall any non-whites and from memory in my year of just over 100 at secondary school there was two of Arabian descent and one of Asian descent.
When I used to visit London as a child, I would consciously notice how many black people there were (I don't mean pointing and saying "LOOK!!!" but just it would register in my brain). Nowadays, I don't think anything of it, although the town I live now is still over 90% white.
 
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dirtychinchilla said:
Hah fair enough!

Good luck with that. North of London is scary.
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Found a load of boxes for free in Godalming so went for a drive on Monday night, and I took her through Guildford on the way home and she likes it again :confused:

We seem to get more for our money there, council tax is cheaper than some of the other areas and we've since learned that there are trains to Waterloo in 34 mins, these are all excellent points.

I hear you guys all stink a bit and are a bit thirsty atm tho :D
 
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