Commuting to/in London

[Benno]

I am looking for places to stay and think it is silly/pointless to spend more than £500 on a room per month so have set myself this limit.

On Saturday I am looking at a room in a very, very nice cottage in Amersham for £400 a month all inclusive. Only problem is the commute, obviously. I work in Mayfair which is a heck of a drive/tube journey (metropolitan line...zone 9).

Anyone do a similar commute? Anyone know good places to live within my budget?

Thanks in advance. I don't get the opportunity to check here often these days.
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[LustyLew]

My o/h currently lives/works in Greenford (Zone 4).

Rents a room in a house full of mostly East Europeans. It's more of a stop-gap while saving for something a bit better. It's a bit shabby, but there's hot water, heating and it doesn't leak or stink of piss/shit.

He pays £450pcm. I don't particularly like it, but it fulfills a requirement and it has secure bike parking for his 125.

I used to pay £750 in Elephant & Castle, but I could walk to work so saved on transport costs.

Dont think that helps very much sorry. But in your budget you should be able to find decent in Zone 4, so about 10-12 miles out of town.
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[TheArchitect]

I was renting in Wood Green, zone 3 I think. Paid 400pcm for a room in shared house. the other tenants were all shift workers so we rarely crossed paths to be honest.

Was a great set up for the money and was right on the piccadily line. Now I've moved further north as have my scooter for commutes so can live away from train lines (which tends to be cheaper).
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[Benno]

It would be nice to be out in the countryside...but the commute, oh god the commute.

I've looked at some really grim rooms in various parts of London and one almost perfect house in Beckton but didn't take them up on that because the housemates were pretty awful and they kept adding costs on top of the rent...

Does anyone have an hour+ commute then?
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[bikertomm]

Benno, I live very close to Amersham, basically go through it on my way to my (new) job.

I'm from Hazlemere so just across from Amersham, I can't really help out on naming other places to live but it is certainly a very nice area around here, High Wycombe can be a bit of a hole, but generally I'd say its alright.

Plenty of nice roads and countryside for getting the bike out

I used to commute to Croyden, but I drove.. M25 slog of a drive, a good commute was 1.5 hours in, 1 Hour home (Left the office really late)

I've done my share of sitting on that motorway let me tell you!

I've also got the train into London from Amersham and I can remember thinking it took quite a while.. maybe it was just a slow train.

Sorry if that didn't help too much
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[Benno]

Commuting from Amersham to Mayfair...what are transport costs likely to be then?

I found out that you can register your military card to your oyster card for a one third discount so that might make the tube cheaper than the bike, but from zone 9 who knows!?

If anyone does it then it must be possible, so I can do it. But my job has such long hours
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[angryjonny]

Mrs Angry gets on the train at Twyford and off at Paddington. Some of the trains are as fast as 20 minutes, but the commute costs about the same as your rent, per month.

[Benno]

[angryjonny]

She reckons train, tube, parking at the station and petrol for the drive are about £550 a month.

So yeah, a benefit of Amersham is that it's (just) on the underground. Should be at least a couple of hundred a month cheaper.

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[dangerousdave]

in a simular situation.

renting in Streatham at the moment, £450 a month all in. Houseshare with 2 other guys.

about a 40 min ride into work every day, not too bad.

There are plenty of house shares on https://www.spareroom.co.uk

Good flatmates are high on the list of priorities. They will either make it or break it for you.
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[dangerousdave]

in a simular situation.

renting in Streatham at the moment, £450 a month all in. Houseshare with 2 other guys.

about a 40 min ride into work every day, not too bad.

There are plenty of house shares on https://www.spareroom.co.uk

Good flatmates are high on the list of priorities. They will either make it or break it for you.
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[Nope.]

I live in Leighton Buzzard, get a London Midland service into London Euston every day. Costs me £390 per month just for the ticket.

I work a 5 minute walk from Euston so I have no tube costs, entire journey takes me between 45 minutes and an hour.
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