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  • Find me the perfect place to live… Several conditions attached!
  • brassneck
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    Andover might just fit, but even there I reckon you’ll need £150K more for a 4 bedder. Good road riding, decent mtb nearby, Swinley up the road.

    EDIT: Found one under budget!

    Bit lacking in garden mind…

    molgrips
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    Newport 1hr 55mins. House prices low, riding good.

    Umm guys, Newport and Bristol have train links to Paddington, which isn’t central London. You won’t make it door to door in an hour and a half from Bristol, no chance.

    epicyclo
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    scotroutes – Member
    If someone told me to move somewhere 1.5 hours from Central London I’d tell them to get stuffed.

    I’d extend that to 7 hours… 🙂

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    IHN
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    Umm guys, Newport and Bristol have train links to Paddington, which isn’t central London.

    But the OP said…

    If someone told you to move to somewhere 1.5 hours from Central London by train door-to-door (to the main terminals like Waterloo, Paddington etc),

    egb81
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    A two bed terrace a mile or so away from Temple Meads station in Bristol will set you back £250k nowadays. Silly money.

    mark90
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    4 bed houses in Bristol for £200k

    If you can find a 4 bed in Bristol for 200K it’s probably not an area you’d want to live in.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    But the OP said…

    Oops yes so he did 🙂

    But point stands – 1.5 hours from Paddington is potentially less useful than 1.5 hours from Waterloo.

    Anyway – Swindon might be scruffy but it has tons of superb road riding, and the mtbing whilst being very much non-technical is fantastic for endless adventure rides. In the dry.

    BigEaredBiker
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    Aylesbury. Train into Marylebone in under an hour.

    Whilst this is true the 1.5 hours door-to-door is a bit of a struggle unless you live next to either one of the train stations and work within a 5 min walk of Marylebone. Houses in Aylesbury have also gone up a lot over the past 5 years; if you find a 4 bed one for £200k, there will likely be a catch – although there are a lot of new builds with shared ownership options.

    However, leaving early in the morning Tring is only a 15 minute drive and has trains that get into Euston in 40 minutes.

    Don’t bother looking for a 4 bed in Tring, it would be well above £200k. You might in Milton Keynes or Luton though, both of which have stations and trains into London. MKC to Euston is around 35 mins I think and there is plenty of riding not far away, it’s probably the OP’s best bet.

    MostlyBalanced
    Free Member

    Ryde, Isle of Wight?
    House prices would work but the 1.5 hour commute might be a little stretched if the ferry and trains don’t mate up.
    Road and off road riding is good there.

    curiousyellow
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    I’ve made my peace with a 2 hour door-to-door to get to work if my moon-on-a-stick is found. Once I’m at the terminal I’m pretty confident I can run/bike to work under 30 minutes, hence the 1.5 hours to the terminal requirement!

    Man, a 15 minute drive in the morning would suck though. It would have to be biking or running distance to the station.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    2 hours each way as a commute? On top of your working day?

    IHN
    Full Member

    Man, a 15 minute drive in the morning would suck though. It would have to be biking or running distance to the station.

    You could ride from pretty much anywhere in Swindon to the station in 15 minutes.

    danradyr1
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    You live in chepstow and be ‘posh Welsh’.
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42034512.html

    Fantastic riding nearby and Paddington 90mins away.

    nickc
    Full Member

    Peterborough? [shudders]

    curiousyellow
    Free Member

    What is posh Welsh?

    IHN
    Full Member

    What is posh Welsh?

    You’d have an inside toilet

    curiousyellow
    Free Member

    Well look at IHN here with his fancy inside toilet.

    IHN
    Full Member

    I am quite the dandy.

    danradyr1
    Free Member

    Posh Welsh – oxymoron (or people who live in Chepstow)

    paulneenan76
    Free Member

    Anyone mentioning Home Counties to you is off the mark, particularly Aylesbury or MK in Bucks – unless you can get shared ownership option. Luton or Dunstable is your best bet maybe but you are talking sub 50 minute trains and this means £200k for a flat in most places in the home counties tbh.

    You’d be better off up north or parts of south, Kent or Essex.

    curiousyellow
    Free Member

    Well, that was a comfortable few hours of whimsy. However, it has given me some fuel to find somewhere new.

    So, the 200k figure is what it would take to be mortgage free. 90 minutes door to door is the acceptable commute for me based on going into the City a couple of times a week.

    That commuter map site is pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing that.

    qwerty
    Free Member

    Stroud, Gloucestershire hits the nail, but i think you’ll struggle to find anything 4 bed with garden & garage for 200k within 1.5hrs of London!

    Stroud: £225k but no garage = http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44418822.html

    A little further away is Cheltenham: 200k no garage = http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62919320.html

    It can be done in Melksham: £200k with garage = http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43805265.html

    Strouds great, a nice mix of affluent, chav & hippy dippy. Great MTB from the doorstep (muddy in winter), great CX / road from the doorstep, FoD & Cwm Carn 1:15hr drive away, Stroud – Paddington = 1:30. It sits at the centre of 5 small but concentrated valleys. Lots of ex Londoners here. No bad schools. Pop over & i’ll show you round (email in profile).

    I lived for 40 years in Enfield, spent a weekend in Stroud (son was 5yrs old) and thought fu*k it. We moved soon after. Only been back for 2 funerals.

    curiousyellow
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    @qwerty I may take you up on that!

    piemonster
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    scaredypants
    Full Member

    Well look at IHN here with his fancy inside toilet.

    silly modern ways – it’ll never catch on

    br
    Free Member

    Houses in Aylesbury have also gone up a lot over the past 5 years;

    Yep, just searched for the house we sold in 2012, gone up £150k…

    rt60
    Full Member

    Luton, yes it’s a bit rough, but it’s 23 min to St Pancras and the cheapest place north of London that’s reasonable to commute regularly from.

    Reasonable riding from the door and 20 min to Chicksands.

    Still won’t get 4 bed detached in an area you would want to live in for less than £250k though!

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Just had a quick look around Chippenham, 4-bed detached houses that I know, close to where I live on the west-side of town are around £330,000-400,000…
    😯
    http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/42530129?search_identifier=80bd91cd7cf981f8fd057f2d25711ace

    shermer75
    Free Member

    Stoke on Trent

    1hr 30 mins from Euston

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