SE London Living

[EltonFrog]

I spoke to someone this morning who has just bought an entire house for not much more than that.

In SE London? What was it made of, LEGO?

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Thanks Tiny. I'm hoping to hear tomorrow if the offer has been accepted and if all is well I should have it within four to six weeks.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Good luck with the offer, ABV. Plumstead is a bit of a previously neglected area and the prices probably still reflect that but the houses seem solid enough. And it certainly feels less downmarket than it did in my younger days.

 

[ceepeebee]

I don't think they put people off living there but the hillier parts do deter the less serious cyclist. Around Anerley and Crystal Palace, for example, you see very few utility cyclists - you do see cyclists but they are mostly on road bikes, often wearing club colours, and out on training rides. No mega hills (I doubt that the elevation gets above 170m) but the area is certainly ''topographically serrated.''

yeah, the local hills are ..... sharp? liveners? They're providing me with some good hill training for sure, but at the end of a long day of work, and (as per my last job) a 13 mile commute, that last drag up to the top of Crystal Palace is a bitch.

There's a particularly daft thing on Strava:
http://app.strava.com/runs/10143049

Current job possibilities are looking like Leatherhead (looong commute, and lumpy), Esher, or round the back of Westminster Cathedral..... Hoping for the latter for commute, obv.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There's a particularly daft thing on Strava:
http://app.strava.com/runs/10143049

Absolute masochistic madness!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

About the only thing I know about Hither Green (except for what lines its on, and that there was a train crash there circa 1967 ) is that it has a Freight loco depot (just south of the station on the lines out to Sevenoaks, etc) which I've been to several times many moons ago when I was spotting and most certainly before everything became class 66s

....Used to have a whole variety of types at one point that place did, not just '09s, '33s and '73s (which, ironically, being from Glasgow was what I was really looking for anyway! ).







I'll get me anora..... coat.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin - I'm really not good with riding hills although I can get myself up them with a lot of time and effort if I'm on my road bike. If this flat goes ahead then I probably won't be using my hybrid as much as I do now as it weighs about 15kg, full panniers and basket are probably another 30kg and then 16+ stones of me on top doesn't make for an easy ride. God bless Ocado.

I know the feeling ...

But ... that's what tiny chainrings and huge sprockets were invented for!

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I'm already using them

My offer was accepted this morning and I'm excited and nauseous in equal measure. I'll have thighs of steel by the time the trip to France comes around in June

 

[ianrauk]

On of the best things about living in SE London?
The Cable Car.... it's bloody brilliant. Bike friendly too.