I`m thinking of moving from the beautiful Kent countryside to London...............am i mad?

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rose1

If I could afford to live in London I would do it, great for theatre, shopping, night life etc. Providing you can afford to live in a very decent area and not some dingy back street in the outskirts then it would be London! Kent is lovely, but it does get the worst of the weather when it snows in our oart of the UK. I love Kent too (I originally come from Essex) Kent has some beautiful countryside.......they donÂ´t call it the garden of england for nothing!!
This is a tough one, canÂ´t you afford a studio apartment in London and a small property in Kent too, that way you can have the best of both worlds. Good luck.

CLIVE H

Yes, but then you can easily escape to the hop-gardens of Kent any time you feel like it.

If you move to say Sidcup (Kent) it's virtually London and the train from there to Charing X is only about 40-45 mins - that's with lots of stops by the way.

If Sidcup is no good, how about Beckenham? You'll still effectively be in Kent but also have your toe in the London door as well - all them bright lights etc.

As for myself, I live here in SE London - Greenwich on Thames, so it's London or bust.

I did live in Kent just after the end of WW2 in a place near Sittingbourn.

Strange that until the early 1800-s the boundary of Kent stopped at New Cross.

Hopping in Kent
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cheekybear

I have just got back in from seeing a band in the west end.....London is truly one of the world's gr8 cities

sylvan22003

Definitely not London is the place to be.

chris at hornchurch

it depends on what it is you want?
Kent is nice with good traffic systems. green fields and villages etc. quite in places but overall not a bad place to live.
London is a mixture and really is where you need to be careful.
it can appear inviting,exciting open 24 hours ,lively and romantic with culture ,art etc on tap. for the energetic it can be very magnetic but..
if you live on the wrong side of town ! muggings ,murder, poor housing social deprivation ,drugs etc
easy to pass through and not see below the surface . if you have a tourists eyes then it may well seem a lovely interesting place to want to be.
it can be! just be very very careful where you end up. hopefully you can afford to live in the better parts of town.
good luck whatever you decide but personally I would rent a place for six months in an area i wanted to move to. it takes around a year to really get the feel of a place but 6 months should give you enough information and time to get inside the pulse of the part of town you are interested in.
do live well and enjoy life wherever you may end up.

Spunkfight

Insane.

yrag

not really i love big cities

Tyler

Property and cost of living is equally as ludicrous! It's all down to whether or not you want city living. And again, that depends on which area of London.

Still in Stockbridge!

I done it but i wouldn't recommend it. Kent is beautiful, London is just a rat race, stay in Kent and commute.

miss london

No! I love London and Kent is not that far you can always visit.

NJ. the Gemini

Have you ever been to London before?
If yes How long had you spent there and where in London??
and how old are you? Yes you could be mad, because I cannot see how and why you would be thinking to leave the
nice country side of Kent for the hustling and bustling of
London. Unless you are going to be living in London but on the outskirt of London that means not really in the city but the out skirt. Then I would say kind of yes!.

Oliver T6

Certifiable.

Vicky T Viking

Yep. London is full of Londoners. I'd be frightened to live there.

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