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0 pointspm2153y ago0 comments

Most places close enough for "take the train for a night out in London" will (practically by definition) be "you can commute into London for work from here" places, though, with correspondingly high house prices. Certainly Cambridge is not cheap for housing!

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TrueGeek3y ago· 2 in thread

My wife and I just spent a month in the UK to see how we’d like it and if we’d want to move there. If you are willing to commute 40 mins (by train) there are plenty of towns with 2 bed apartments for £400k.

pm215OP3y ago

A 2 bed flat for 400K is definitely what I would call expensive housing! It may not be central-London prices but it's certainly high, and unaffordable for many people.

quickthrower23y ago

Was going to post a counterexample, but in the time I have been out of the UK ... man the prices have gone up a lot! You can probably get a 1 bed for 200k but that is not cheap. For an American it might be OK (GBP seems to have lost a lot of value)

If you need affordability you would need to move away from the south east. As a digital nomad ... you can!

rowanajmarshall3y ago

This, but "commutable to London" covers a very large area, and you can still get cheap(ish) housing there. If you're in a town an hour away from London, daily commuting is uncomfortable, but doing it once a fortnight for a night out (especially if you've got somewhere to stay overnight in London) is much more doable. I used to do that when I lived in West Berkshire.

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