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You can also try Lammas Green on Sydenham Hill which has longer hours than EB and has the use of the green. It feeds kids to EB and Fairlawn amongst others.

Can I recommend the fine Victorian cemetery in Nunhead as your final resting place now that you have lived it up in East Dulwich!

For ?585k you can get a 5 bed house on the same road as Eliot Bank with the transport links of Forest Hill but you won't get the ED feel. If you are at that stage when you want the buzz of ED then live there. It is more enjoyable to live here than visit at weekends.

Plus a new M&S and London Overground on the way adding another 20% on top. I think the ?800k+ 3 bed house is quite realistic in the near future or is that just crazy.

I have two friends in Forest Hill who are trying to sell 5 bed houses below ?600k beside Eliot Bank and haven't had a lot of interest albeit both with SE26 postcodes. One of whom is probably going to wait for better times so I think the property market is probably more driven at the moment by wanting to live in the primary areas whereas you would expect the market for family houses in a recession to be driven by Ofsted reports and proximity to transport. A colleague of mine put his one bed garden flat in Putney on the market for ?400k, got 16 people through the door in 3 days and sold for over 10% above the asking price. I think you may need to look at houses or areas that initially look a bit rough round the edges but are catering for the ED overflow.

And free University tuition as we pay the fees through our taxes.

Are you the Scottish equivalent of Father Dougal from Craggy Island? Must be annoying that Scotland the brave as featured in Braveheart was mainly played by the Irish Army with most of the battle scenes filmed in Ireland.