Where Is Best Place In London To Live..easy Commute To Centre Etc

[pumpjack]

i need lodgings in london, im looking for a place with an easy and affordable commute into centre. everywhere seems so expensive room wise. sometimes i will need to work in the city and other times i may need to work surrounding areas.

[bednobs]

do you know which surrounding areas? It might be rubbish to get a place in (say) high wycombe then find out you have to travel to kent

[rowanwitch]

Try somewhere on the ends of the district line, Barking and Dagenham areas are still relatively cheap with good transport links. Not too bad into city centre .

[-SharonA-]

Walthamstow, Wood Green, Turnpike Lane, Edmonton in north London.
Good transport links.

[tamborine]

few miles out of M25. Staines is nice, safe & easy for LHR.

[IJKLM]

It's all expensive.
Even a small single room in a flat/house share at commercial rates is upwards of £600/month, plus bills plus council tax (unless you are a student, or otherwise exempt).

For anything decent, plan on £1000/month

Many people will group together and rent a house, when you might be able to get something a little better for th emoney (though rarely cheaper).

IN general, the bottom end of th emarket is where you are competing for room space with students, so the issue of Council Tax (students don't pay, but employed people do, and you may end up paying for the whole house, if your fellow sharers are students).

Also, the whole housing scene in London is full of scam merchants who will take a 'deposit' but then you never hear from them again.

To answer the question, anywhere with high-density housing that is also a long way from a tube/rail station and with a journey more than an hour tends to be cheaper.

As said above, the ends of the tube lines tend to be cheaper. South tends to be cheaper than north. East London tends to be cheaper than West.

Croydon has good communication links, and tends to be relatively cheap - look for areas like Addington, THornton Heath, Mitcham.

Good luck. It won't be easy....

[Buenchico]

A useful starting point, perhaps:
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However some of the cheapest places to live are a bit further outside of London, with Grays in Essex being surprisingly cheap for housing costs. (It's a total dump though!).

[Peter Pedant]

yes rooms near the thames can be upwards of £1000 / mo

it does seem incredible to us mere mortals .....