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Moving out of East Dulwich to release capital - but where to??

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Sephiroth

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Yeah, Rochester is an odd one


6 years ago we left East Dulwich for Lewes. And still very much happy with the decision (reflecting on comments fishbiscuits has made in the past, I know people do tend to say that anyway. But it's very much true)


We spent several months travelling to towns within commuting distance of London, often staying overnight to get more of a feel. I'll be honest - not many towns felt great. This was pre-referendum days but that vibe was very much present


The Lewes/Brighton/south downs combo has been a real winner for us. But in many ways we were already "ready" for a move. We didn't want to recreate the life we had in East Dulwich in a different part of London - we wanted to change things up a bit. But not everyone feels the same way - it very much depends which bits of life you get out of London living now and how much you want to retain

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fishbiscuits

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Sephiroth Wrote:

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> (reflecting on comments fishbiscuits has made in

> the past, I know people do tend to say that

> anyway. But it's very much true)


Yeah.. the number of times I've read "we've moved to [ insert nondescript area of Kent ] and it's amazing, we couldn't be happier". As if they had this sudden epiphany and discovered that Dungeness is cheaper than Dulwich. And I just think... yeah, keep telling yourself that...



> The Lewes/Brighton/south downs combo has been a real winner for us.


Sounds like a good mix of town/outdoors/coast, still vaguely close to London. As I said earlier in the thread, that's probably the direction I'd head in. But I'd need the comfort of knowing I was still within walking distance of an outlet selling ?3 coffee and ?5 bread, with a nice large window so people could watch me buying them.

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SpringTime

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/one-in-seven-u-k-homes-are-selling-in-a-week-after-tax-cut


Outside London the property market is fluid and looks like prices steady at least - probably on the rise. This is almost certainly due to people's behavioural changes rather than economic ones, bar the stamp duty relief which doesn't mean as much to the higher value London market. How long this will go on for we don't know. You might find, unless you price super-keenly, that a sale in SE22 and the immediate area will be a lot slower than back in 2012-2016 and that you're potentially priced out of your preferred out-of-town destinations, depending where and what they are. On another note some areas, Brighton, for example, are now so expensive that some movers are actually coming from outside and back into the capital again.


Personally I'd go for a proper rural location as far from a city as possible (if it was workable) rather than live anywhere within 50 or probably 75 miles of London! England has become a very suburban place...

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RichH

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GrumpyOldGitLady Wrote:

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> Lewes sounds a popular suggestion.


Except when it's under water! The last serious flooding may have been 20 years ago but that doesn't mean it won't happen again.

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KidKruger

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Did ago down for a look a few week ago.

Houses, space, woods, air, all good.

People put me off big style tho - might as well be on the Isle of White.


siousxiesue Wrote:

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> KidKruger Wrote:

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> > Anyone know owt about West Wickham ?

> > Considering that..

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> Friend in WW loves it, small village feel but with

> some chains in the high st, and woodlands on the

> doorstep

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SpringTime

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A fair few Londoners are moving to Birmingham at the moment. The city centre is lively enough (by half!) and South West Brum has many good places to live. Your money goes very far in relative terms and there are some excellent leafy streets with lots of sound high quality big houses.
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GrumpyOldGitLady Wrote:

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> Update - we're still looking!! - Thanks for all

> the useful replies so far - Lewes sounds a popular

> suggestion.

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> What about Rye in Sussex- we like the feel of the

> town but what's it like to actually live there -

> does anyone know people who live there??


I think Lewes is a much better option than Rye with better train service and easy to get into Brighton as well Rye is basically a cute tourist town with not much going on-plus properties aren't by any means cheap and are quite poky.

I think you'd get very bored very quickly there tbh

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