Commuter towns to London

MILFORD!

Part of Godalming.

3 beds, 3 bathrooms, garden, garage, £100 a month more than what we're on.

Also, I'll be saving £1700 a year on motorcycle insurance so that'll go nicely towards the absolute arse reaming we'll be receiving from National Rail.
 
Freefaller said:
Sevenoaks is nice - but expensive.
Crawley is ok.
Dorking is ok
More SW I think it gets equally expensive but also the trains are more crowded.
Don't move to the north coast of Kent
Tunbridge Wells is great, good schools there too if ever you think about having kids

North of London I only know St Albans which is not cheap
Luton is a dump
Watford is ok in the suburbs

The Chilterns area is nice, but not sure what connectivity is like.

Where I live it's about 45mins or so to London Bridge, so we live really close by train, despite being miles out of the M25 - about 15-20min drive to get to M25. (Don't live far from Hever Castle for reference). It's green, quiet, lots of cycling, horse riding, farms and still less than an hour to LBG. So door to door you're less than 1.5hrs to anywhere in London really which is fab. And you come back to the countryside, and where you know your neighbours, and have 500+ sqm of garden.
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Lived in outskirts of Watford, moved to St Albans which is MUCH nicer (and stupid expensive). Most things (property, food, that sorta thing) are more expensive in St Albans than in Central London. It's called the SNORBANS TAX locally ;)
 
Just seen the updated post
Crawley "Bit scruffy and neglected" that's a polite way to describe it :D

I think you made the right decision sticking with Surrey and the Guildford area though :)
 
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