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Best and Worst Places in London?

Best places to live near London?

  • Hello, i'm moving to London from Italy and i need your help!! I have my small Internet business and thinking of moving to the UK, in London or somewhere not so far from London. I need some better taxation, an English-speaking environment, a better contact with English programmers and so on. My questions are: 1. What are the best places to live around London considering I'm not a billionaire , I am moving with my girlfriend, and I wouldn't need to travel to London every day since most of time I would like to work in the place where i'm supposed to live? 2. I was thinking about Harlow, it's close to Stansted and about 1 hour away by train or coaches from london, how is this new city? 3. What is the cost of decent living in the UK if someone doesn't have to struggle every day but he is not a tycoon either, like, how much would it be totally for a month (incl. housing (rentals), electricity, other bills, food - all, probably, slightly above the average) 4) I'm considering also to live in London at the very beginning, like in a share house but i actually have no idea of how is living in that kind of apartments....so, what is it like? Would highly appreciate all answers, Cheers Fred

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    Actually Harlow is only 30 minutes by train from London Liverpool Street Station, but it is a dreadful place, If you want to be near Stanstead look at Sawbridgeworth or Bishops Stortford. Other nice towns with frequent fast trains to London are Leatherhead, Dorking and Guildford in Surrey, Sevenoaks Kent mebtioned above. Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Remember to take a good look around any town you are considering moving to. One man's paradise could be another person's hell www.nationalrail.co.uk

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NOT Harlow!! It's a boring, ugly and not very nice town. If you need to live in the M11 corridor for Stansted, try Bishops Stortford. It's much nicer. I'd also recommend St. Albans, Hertford, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells although these are further from Stansted.

garstang123

I would not recommend living outside of London. It's depressing, dull and lifeless. Try somewhere like North West or North London.

If you are thinking about Harlow then also investigate Hertford and Watford and St Albans

David

Sevenoaks in Kent is good. It's 30 mins from central London by train, 30 mins by car to Gatwick or an hour to Heathrow. The M25 motorway is 5 mins from the town centre and you can get to all the major motorways around London via the M25. Dover is 50 mins by car if you fancy travelling by ferry to the continent. The only slight problem is that it's a bit pricey to buy or rent. A small house is about £850 or so a month to rent. Also there's nice countryside round here. It's a great place to live. The cost of living is quite high.Per month Gas/Electricity £60, food £300, council tax £140. Fuel is expensive £1.40 a litre. The Uk is not a cheap place to live!

Martin B

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