Zookmaster Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I'm earning between £1200-1300 a month. Any ideas for areas just outside of london that are affordable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 27, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted December 27, 2014 I take it you work in London? Stevenage and Harlow are cheap and have direct lines into Kings Cross and Liverpool Street respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flangedango Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 A property in the same postcode as Crossrail might be a good shout if you get in now. Burnham, Maidenhead, Taplow, Langley and Slough will jump 60 per cent in value, with prices expected to increase by up to £160,000 in the next four years apparently. Langley is alright and is probably the cheapest place apart from central Slough (where you really don't want to live). Half an hour into London Paddington currently by train and a much shorter and easier journey into central London once Crossrail comes in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators neil Posted December 29, 2014 Moderators Share Posted December 29, 2014 WALTHAM ABBEY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators neil Posted December 29, 2014 Moderators Share Posted December 29, 2014 Says you Harlow boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 29, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted December 29, 2014 Does the Abbey even have a high street? With actual shops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunner Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Came in to say Stevenage but PunkStep beat me to it. Cheap as you're going to get in Hertfordshire and not actually that disgraceful to live in if you do your research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 If you are willing to live in horrible Stevenage then you may as well look at Hatfield. It's also very cheap by Herts standards but it's a bit less of a concrete chavfest than Stevenage and it's even closer to London (15 mins from King's Cross). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunner Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 If you are willing to live in horrible Stevenage then you may as well look at Hatfield. It's also very cheap by Herts standards but it's a bit less of a concrete chavfest than Stevenage and it's even closer to London (15 mins from King's Cross). I live in Hatfield and have to disagree, I think it's much worse than Stevenage. Just as ugly but infinitely more dull. It seems to me like Stevenage if they replaced their dire nightlife with a nonexistent one, and the most embarrassing town centre I've ever seen. At least it's adjacent to St. Albans, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I live in Welwyn Garden City, so in between Hatfield and Stevenage. I did Uni in Hatfield and I support Stevenage Boro football club so I've spent plenty of time in each town and both are horrid. Stevenage certainly has a better town centre if we are talking about shopping, but it's a town centre full of total scumbags so it's best avoided. If you live in Hatfield you are a super short bus away from both WGC and St Albans, both are which are pretty nice. You also have Old Hatfield and the Hatfield House grounds and gardens, both really nice places. You can live in Hatfield and never have to go to the shitty town centre at all. The Galleria has the only shops worth going to, plus a cinema and loads of restaurants. -- To answer Johnnyboy - yes, half of the town centre shops are closed in Hatfield, i believe the plan is to knock most of it down and start again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunner Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Depends where in Stevenage, really, though obviously that can be said for most places. The Old Town, for example, is very nice. The thing that gets on my tits about Hatfield is how dysfunctional it is for a town, especially one with a university. The whole place is shut down by midnight, and there's absolutely nothing to do even in daytime. At least Stevenage has the Leisure Park, albeit it seems to host a riot every bloody week. Fellow Stevenage F.C. fan, by the way. Without intending to go too far off-topic - weird that we've gone a good few weeks without losing, isn't it? I live in Hatfield and have to disagree, I think it's much worse than Stevenage. Just as ugly but infinitely more dull. It seems to me like Stevenage if they replaced their dire nightlife with a nonexistent one, and the most embarrassing town centre I've ever seen. At least it's adjacent to St. Albans, though. Does Hatfield town centre still have about 75% of the shops boarded up? Oh yeah. I remember when Babyshambles played the Forum, and one of the members maintained a tour blog. He summed it up rather well. After wandering round the college grounds a little I decided to grab my bike and see what I could find. Turns out not much. My progress was hampered by the first real day of autumnal weather, and I struggled through wind and rain to negotiate the roads and roundabouts around what googlemaps insisted was 'town centre'. All I could find was an Asda with a small parade of shops behind it. When I asked a lady in one of these shops where the town centre was, she replied "this is the town centre". http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/drew-mcconnell/babyshambles_b_4116217.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I'd sooner be in a town with not much happening than a town with lots of horrible stuff happening. The Stevenage leisure park area has always been a great place to go to get into a fight. No thanks. Outside of heading to the football stadium I avoid Stevenage at all costs. Fat, single chav mums by the hundred, just roaming around smoking fags. I enjoy unbeaten football runs for as long as they last, without building up too much hope. Been burned too many times !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShowOff Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I think Stevenage would cost a lot to get to London by train though right? I went to Hitchen for a house party NTE and it cost me £11 from Kings Cross, and I'm pretty sure I accidentally bought the wrong ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 7, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 £11? That's cheap!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members swiftstrike Posted January 7, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Borehamwood, might be an option. It is classed as zone 6 so you can use an oyster card at the Elstree & borehamwood rail. So while it is more expensive than Hatfield or Stevenage it is a lot closer to London and you can save on travel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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