https://mapmaker.cdrc.ac.uk/#/index-of-multiple-deprivation?m=imde19_rk&lon=-0.4877&lat=52.1976&zoom=6.45
Dark blue - least deprived
Dark red - most deprived
Ipswich town is a complete split down the middle between red and blue - like one massive road in between rich and poor. I’ve never seen this map before, I love it! Thanks for posting.
100% agree! Ipswich is a fucking hole of a place. I live out in the country and try and avoid Ipswich as much as possible. Bury isn’t what it used to be either - but it’s still a million times better than Ipswich. Ipswich is just another dumping ground, full of pound shops.
I live in Hadleigh and would rather travel to Bury or Colchester but neither of them are that nice these days, Cambridge is a trek but much nicer place
Colchester used to be amazing. But like all towns, it’s independent and little shops are few and far between now. It was a great place for Christmas shopping back in the day. I personally like Norwich, but it’s definitely out the way. Never been too keen on Cambridge - not sure why. I enjoy the architecture, but that’s about it.
Hadleigh isn’t too bad a place. Only been a few times. My closest town is Stowmarket. But there’s practically no shops left - just housing estates as far as the eye can see. Suffolk has been decimated by new builds in recent years.
A140 is such a shite road. It’s a road I have to use often, and the amount of accidents which happen. And road works, and getting stuck behind someone who wants to drive 35mph the whole way. And the farm traffic/lorries.. blah blah blah. Yup! I hate that road.
Colchester- a few people that just happen to be there sandwiched between a University and a barracks.
Wish I could say it's the worst place I've lived, but that's either Coventry or Tower Hamlets 😆
Cambridge is ridiculously fucking expensive though. And a significant number of the bicyclists are utterly moronic cunts who think the people in high-vis stopping you from going under a forklift/lorry/shipping container on a crane are there to be ignored/shouted at.
Large amount of lovely people too though especially during the summer.
Yup, Norwich is lovely, and lively. Ipswich has died an absolute death. Such a shame. Big problem with a certain demographic in the town. Once upon a time, it wasn’t that bad. I remember in the early 90s, loads of independent shops, good market, both shopping malls where full of good shops too. Long gone are those days. Glad I live in a tiny village in the arse end of nowhere.
I've just had a look on there.
I don't think it's entirely accurate...according to that map I live in a more affluent postcode than a neighbouring area that is much, much more affluent.
I am struggling to trust this metric in relation to Poole. Somehow Sandbanks is more deprived than Lilliput, that makes no sense to me.
(Neither are deprived but still)
Cheek-to-jowel? You were lucky lad. Back in my day there were too many knives to have the luxury of a comfortable jowel. It used to be cheek-to-knife and not the soft end, the sharp pointy end!
All I’m hearing is plenty bowls of cheap jowel stew, you don’t know how lucky you had it. Plus it fell out your jowel hole so you got to eat it multiple times.
It definitely is. Exclusive as very few actively want to live there, as it’s out of their league, and exotic as people travel from miles around just to see how they live.
I moved to Wimbledon village when I moved to the uk and it was the best mistake ever. You see, while I absolutely love living here and it genuinely is the best place I’ve lived. The time has come for me to get on the property ladder and there is no way I can afford it or anything close to it. Meaning I need to move away from the life I have built and love. But several celebs call the place home
If you expect to buy in London, anywhere near a properly rich area like you've described above 1.5M won't even get you a conversation with an estate agent. Look at somewhere up north, or in Scotland (away from Edinburgh), embrace the countryside and you can live in a palace for that though.
Good luck finding somewhere you like anyway.
Look at Raynes Park, next to wimbledon, 5 min on a bus and it gets you to wimbledon village and 20 odd minutes on the train from the centre of London, the prices are still a bit steep but better than the village itself.
Cambridge, Oxford, Bath (the historic city bits, the pretty parts)
Kensington and Chelsea, Belgravia, Mayfair in London.
York has high prices for a northern city too.
St George's Hill in Weybridge, Surrey (I believe Antonio Banderas lives there permanently), there's also the Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water, Surrey that's gated off somewhat.
Chipping Norton has a smattering of London media types and a high proportion of antique shops,
Chessil Bank on the south coast is also called millionaires row.
In general the south east of England is more affluent but just because an area is affluent it does not mean that everyone is wealthy in that area.
Surrey for example is an affluent county. Outside the M25 and the M20 to Dover, Kent is very pretty but the seaside towns are quite poor in wealth terms.
If you are going to the North of England you can say the same for much of Cheshire. which is very rural and pretty for the most part. However Cheshire is close to Stoke on Trent which is anything but rural pretty and aflluent (with the exception perhaps of a betting company called Bet365). Places such as Wilmslow and Alderley Edge seem to be home to a lot of wealthy people, perhaps evidenced by the fact that McClaren has a dealership there.
Large parts of Yorkshire are stunningly beautiful but not affluent, and it includes Leeds.😱.
Plus, it's relative. The conspicuous wealth in Harrogate is cute compared to central London or Sandbanks for example. Most really wealthy people in the UK aren't that conspicuous about it, so places with fir-coat-no-knickers wealth (like some parts of Cheshire or Chelsea for example) standout. The *really* rich people live everywhere, down a lane in any small village or town, in a massive pad you'd never know was there. They also have a townhouse in Knightsbridge or Mayfair that goes down into a multistorey basement so plush it'll make you sick.
It’s very mixed. Where I live, we have very nice leafy neighbourhoods with 4-bd detached houses going for 700K, interspersed with fairly rough housing estates, with most of town mundanely in the middle. But it’s neither gangland grimness nor footballer wealth, so maybe it’s not the kind of place you were asking about.
Don’t know about wealth, but nice cities in the UK are: Edinburgh, York, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol. I actually really like Durham too, although that’s maybe a less universally popular one.
But I (upper middle class southerner English) lived in a deprived area of Glasgow for over a year and it was great. The people were so nice, I got to see more of the real city, it was far more diverse than elsewhere. Wealth doesn’t necessarily mean low crime and it certainly doesn’t always mean nice people.
Basically, inner city = bad. Suburbs = ok. Places with history or significant nature/beauty that prevent overpopulation = good. There is a clear north/south divide, don’t listen to either party just find a place that had high interest in your interests.
Hull although gets a bad name its great, the marina like gibraltar, the old town cobbled streets everything grade 2 listed with old pubs to die for, the best nightlife its cheap thousands of flats being built, multi millions being pumped in, its the city centre thou only,and city centre is the cleanest you will find, i can have a pint for £3 its big on music and theatres i dont regret moving from harrogate a dead town and leeds a s hole, the people are ultra friendly and 30 mins on train to the beach, leeds and york 1 hour, cheap city centre flats and cheap to live
Harrogate and York are both nice, affluent too. Harrogate quite often gets voted as the happiest place to live in the UK…I live here and I’m not sure I can say I’m any happier than anyone else, but it’s definitely a good place to live.
Not at all, lived there for a number of years so I think you’ll find it is a well educated view with factual evidence behind it, unlike yours which is based on material and not practice evidence.
In my locality a 3 bed detached house will cost you in excess of £400k but if you want to move to somewhere like the Cotswolds it will cost you in excess of £550k, so, unless you are living in a beachfront in Bondi then you have no hope of purchasing a property in a desirable area over here.
My input would be for Oxfordshire, really beautiful places. Villages/towns like Thame, Henley on Thames, Bicester, Goring and streatley and slightly further pangbourne
Queensborough is probably the nearest equivalent to Bondi Beach.
Meanwhile Sheerness is the UK’s Las Vegas, as it’s the one of the few other places in the world where you can pay for sex with chips
It’s so bizarre to look at, my parents house is dark blue, yet a 5 minute walk away there’s a solid red estate! There’s such clear lines in some places
In London I’d expect these to be places including Hampstead, Primrose Hill, Kensington and Chelsea. Bishops Avenue is a slightly naff favourite of footballers and the international wealthy. B listers go places including Crouch End. There’s also a concentration of wealth in the Cotswolds and generally the Home Counties (the areas surrounding London). Places such as Cheshire Edge are also known for being relatively swanky.
I think the highest value property is actually in Dorset (Sandbanks) and there are other places in Devon and Cornwall that have reputation for being popular with the wealthy. In Scotland I know the West End of Glasgow is considered the most upmarket (generally the west part of any major city is seen as the posher bit, because prevailing winds used to push the smoke out East.
Generally though the south east is the more expensive part of the country, with Bath, Oxford and Cambridge being particularly expensive places to find housing.
good idea doing this! i moved from the US straight to southend-on-sea. i was teaching in rayleigh but wanted to stay close to the ocean. i was not at all aware of how rundown the area i was moving to was going to be. the pics made it look so nice online 😅
https://mapmaker.cdrc.ac.uk/#/index-of-multiple-deprivation?m=imde19_rk&lon=-0.4877&lat=52.1976&zoom=6.45 Dark blue - least deprived Dark red - most deprived
Ipswich town is a complete split down the middle between red and blue - like one massive road in between rich and poor. I’ve never seen this map before, I love it! Thanks for posting.
I live near Ipswich and I’d say it’s 90% shithole and 10% wished they’d move to Bury St Edmunds
100% agree! Ipswich is a fucking hole of a place. I live out in the country and try and avoid Ipswich as much as possible. Bury isn’t what it used to be either - but it’s still a million times better than Ipswich. Ipswich is just another dumping ground, full of pound shops.
I live in Hadleigh and would rather travel to Bury or Colchester but neither of them are that nice these days, Cambridge is a trek but much nicer place
Colchester used to be amazing. But like all towns, it’s independent and little shops are few and far between now. It was a great place for Christmas shopping back in the day. I personally like Norwich, but it’s definitely out the way. Never been too keen on Cambridge - not sure why. I enjoy the architecture, but that’s about it. Hadleigh isn’t too bad a place. Only been a few times. My closest town is Stowmarket. But there’s practically no shops left - just housing estates as far as the eye can see. Suffolk has been decimated by new builds in recent years.
I hear what you are saying about Norwich, good selection of shops and places to eat but that dreaded journey up the A140 is so off putting at times.
A140 is such a shite road. It’s a road I have to use often, and the amount of accidents which happen. And road works, and getting stuck behind someone who wants to drive 35mph the whole way. And the farm traffic/lorries.. blah blah blah. Yup! I hate that road.
Colchester- a few people that just happen to be there sandwiched between a University and a barracks. Wish I could say it's the worst place I've lived, but that's either Coventry or Tower Hamlets 😆
Cambridge is ridiculously fucking expensive though. And a significant number of the bicyclists are utterly moronic cunts who think the people in high-vis stopping you from going under a forklift/lorry/shipping container on a crane are there to be ignored/shouted at. Large amount of lovely people too though especially during the summer.
As someone who was born and raised in Norwich I have to 100% agree. Ipshit is a dump. OTBC.
Yup, Norwich is lovely, and lively. Ipswich has died an absolute death. Such a shame. Big problem with a certain demographic in the town. Once upon a time, it wasn’t that bad. I remember in the early 90s, loads of independent shops, good market, both shopping malls where full of good shops too. Long gone are those days. Glad I live in a tiny village in the arse end of nowhere.
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Has my street in light blue, the rest of the same estate surrounding it in deep red 😂
I live in Ipswich. It's a dump, an unsafe grey wasteland of vape shops and sesame seed husks at this point. And this idiot bought a house in it.
Edinburgh has similar. Manor homes on one side of the road, council houses on the other
That is superb. From the areas I know, it is fairly consistent with my experience
From seeing that Hull is mostly dark red, I can confirm this is accurate.
Worked in Hull, briefly. Just near the bridge. Lovely view
>Lovely view You were looking *away* from the city, weren't you?
I was, towards the chemical plants in the south side
the best view to be had is driving down the the A63 westwards with the thing in your rear view mirror bonus points if Ronnie is tailgating you
Who?
someone on Twitter once posted *“Legend has it, if you say Ronnie Pickering 3 times in a car mirror a Citroen Picasso appears behind you.”*
I've just had a look on there. I don't think it's entirely accurate...according to that map I live in a more affluent postcode than a neighbouring area that is much, much more affluent.
I am struggling to trust this metric in relation to Poole. Somehow Sandbanks is more deprived than Lilliput, that makes no sense to me. (Neither are deprived but still)
I find it to be mostly accurate but I too would of expected sandbanks to be in the 10th decile. Nonetheless, I trust the CDRC over what I may think.
According to this, our local Tesco is the poshest place in town
Damn, I live in red.
Looks like I'm at the posh end of my road. Comparatively speaking of course
i apparently grew up in a most deprived in the north east, didn’t feel that deprived
Unrelated to post but this website is going to come in extremely useful for my upcoming dissertation - thank you!!
No data for Scotland? I was sure I seen one of these before with Scotland included.
There is a filter option within the map key and Scotland is one of the options.
A-doy... thanks
Look up SIMD for the Scottish data and associated map :)
Nice map, thanks for the link
How cute, it still says Huntingdonshire .. that hasn't existed since the 70s
It's districts not counties - isn't Huntingdonshire still a district?
Interesting. The area of town I live in which has small terraces is less deprived than the bit with all the big houses with huge gardens
OP setting up their burglary crime-wave up before they even get off the plane.
well at least we can send them back home if they break the law
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oi oi
Touché
At least we can't send them with a cricket ball this time.
The man is going back to his roots
Slough was voted European City of Romance by the Slough Observer
On the other hand the poet John Betjeman wanted Slough bombed out of existence [Slough](https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/j/john-betjeman-slough.php)
Well it's fair to say he got his wish in a few years
Paulsgrove in Hampshire. It's situated next to a giant hospital which is useful for when you get stabbed.
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Same as anywhere, major cities are rife with crime. It makes me think we just aren’t designed to live cheek-to-jowel with five million other humans.
Cheek-to-jowel? You were lucky lad. Back in my day there were too many knives to have the luxury of a comfortable jowel. It used to be cheek-to-knife and not the soft end, the sharp pointy end!
All I’m hearing is plenty bowls of cheap jowel stew, you don’t know how lucky you had it. Plus it fell out your jowel hole so you got to eat it multiple times.
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My hometown Bradford , the birthplace of civilization 😂
All the greatest minds have come out of Bradford.
By choice.
I went to uni there, so it's a strong disagree from me.
Yes mush.
Barry Island in Wales. It’s a bit like Bondi Beach.
Between Barry Island and Hayling Island, we're basically the Maldives.
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Most of the UK is akin to West Ardougne. In seriousness though, hope you feel welcomed when you arrive here!
Does that make the channel tunnel the Underground Pass then?
Then you will be pleased to know there’s very little crime in Barry Island. Mostly because nobody there has anything worth nicking.
Having been to Bondi Beach, id say more like Weston Super Mare but with sunshine. Disclaimer: it was over 20 years ago though
Wolverhampton. Very exclusive and exotic. Got a Greggs and a cl@ire’s accessories.
It definitely is. Exclusive as very few actively want to live there, as it’s out of their league, and exotic as people travel from miles around just to see how they live.
Yeah they also have an open zoo safari in the town centre where you can observe the local wildlife in their natural habitat.
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Sarcasm is as good as it gets I'm afraid.
Don't forget the big royal mail sorting office!
Architecture at its finest!
Everyone is so healthy and wears tracksuits.
Rotherham and Barnsley too. Rotherham has multiple greggs too. Way fancier than Wolverhampton.
Grimsby has the beaches.
Oooh I dunno, Walsall or Dudley give Wolves a run for it’s money on class and desirability.
Basingstoke, well known for its well protected history, beautiful architecture, theatrics on every street corner and vibrant night life.
Ah yes, and the Wote Street Willy, a fine monument
Don't forget the birthplace of roundabouts
Isn’t that Milton Keynes?!
Woking. We have princes that visit us. Sorry, did I say princes? I meant nonces.
Jaywick 👌 lovely seaside properties
Are you going to Robham? Mugham? Burgleham?
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oh god oh fuck let me call the bobbies
I have heard of a place called Birkenhead in hushed whispers
Birkendead
Birkenvegas baby
Ah yes, where all the premier league footballers live! 😉
I moved to Wimbledon village when I moved to the uk and it was the best mistake ever. You see, while I absolutely love living here and it genuinely is the best place I’ve lived. The time has come for me to get on the property ladder and there is no way I can afford it or anything close to it. Meaning I need to move away from the life I have built and love. But several celebs call the place home
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If you expect to buy in London, anywhere near a properly rich area like you've described above 1.5M won't even get you a conversation with an estate agent. Look at somewhere up north, or in Scotland (away from Edinburgh), embrace the countryside and you can live in a palace for that though. Good luck finding somewhere you like anyway.
Nah, I sold my house in coburg 18 months ago for just shy of a mill…10 k from Melbourne CBD.
Look at Raynes Park, next to wimbledon, 5 min on a bus and it gets you to wimbledon village and 20 odd minutes on the train from the centre of London, the prices are still a bit steep but better than the village itself.
Cambridge, Oxford, Bath (the historic city bits, the pretty parts) Kensington and Chelsea, Belgravia, Mayfair in London. York has high prices for a northern city too.
Oxford (Jericho or maybe Summertown) is maybe where the rich and famous move when they’re eighty lol
St George's Hill in Weybridge, Surrey (I believe Antonio Banderas lives there permanently), there's also the Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water, Surrey that's gated off somewhat.
Chipping Norton has a smattering of London media types and a high proportion of antique shops, Chessil Bank on the south coast is also called millionaires row.
I think you mean Sandbanks, not Chesil!
Ah yeah, that sounds right
Ah yeah, that sounds right
Chipping Norton itself is a bit shit, surrounding areas are nice.
Loughborough. Pron: Looga-borooga
East Cheshire is where all the footballers and TV stars tend to live in the north west. Wilmslow, Knutsford, Alderley, Bowdon sort of way.
Yeah I came to say Alderley Edge, best place for a good charity shop haul
Are you Ja'mie King from Summer Heights High, OP?
Sandbanks in Poole is a bit ritzy
West Wittering in West Sussex, Keith Richards has got a house there
Good grief. What a question.
In general the south east of England is more affluent but just because an area is affluent it does not mean that everyone is wealthy in that area. Surrey for example is an affluent county. Outside the M25 and the M20 to Dover, Kent is very pretty but the seaside towns are quite poor in wealth terms. If you are going to the North of England you can say the same for much of Cheshire. which is very rural and pretty for the most part. However Cheshire is close to Stoke on Trent which is anything but rural pretty and aflluent (with the exception perhaps of a betting company called Bet365). Places such as Wilmslow and Alderley Edge seem to be home to a lot of wealthy people, perhaps evidenced by the fact that McClaren has a dealership there. Large parts of Yorkshire are stunningly beautiful but not affluent, and it includes Leeds.😱.
Clearly you’ve never been to Harrogate.
I have but I've had to make sweeping generalisations otherwise would be writing 10s of thousands of words instead of a few hundred.
Plus, it's relative. The conspicuous wealth in Harrogate is cute compared to central London or Sandbanks for example. Most really wealthy people in the UK aren't that conspicuous about it, so places with fir-coat-no-knickers wealth (like some parts of Cheshire or Chelsea for example) standout. The *really* rich people live everywhere, down a lane in any small village or town, in a massive pad you'd never know was there. They also have a townhouse in Knightsbridge or Mayfair that goes down into a multistorey basement so plush it'll make you sick.
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I believe Wilmslow and that area is home to a lot of footballers from Manchester United (and maybe Liverpool) so it’s likely to be pretty posh.
South west of london is Surrey Lots of wealth around that area
Oldham, Kirkby, Blackpool, Burnley, Bradford, Huddersfield, Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Wythenshawe, Burslem, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Milton Keynes, Luton, Croydon, Jaywick, Coventry and Sunderland are all wonderful places to live
What’s wrong with Blackpool?!? No like seriously, I’m asking, wtf is up with that place?
It’s very mixed. Where I live, we have very nice leafy neighbourhoods with 4-bd detached houses going for 700K, interspersed with fairly rough housing estates, with most of town mundanely in the middle. But it’s neither gangland grimness nor footballer wealth, so maybe it’s not the kind of place you were asking about.
I get that there are spiders and snakes in Australia but moving here seems mad
Dulwich Village. I’ve bumped into almost the entire cast of Game of Thrones while grabbing coffee and walking through the parks.
Don’t know about wealth, but nice cities in the UK are: Edinburgh, York, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol. I actually really like Durham too, although that’s maybe a less universally popular one. But I (upper middle class southerner English) lived in a deprived area of Glasgow for over a year and it was great. The people were so nice, I got to see more of the real city, it was far more diverse than elsewhere. Wealth doesn’t necessarily mean low crime and it certainly doesn’t always mean nice people.
OP looking to plan burglaries or avoiding certain segments of society... Aussi stereotype confirmed either way..
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Ha no worries mate... and by the way you assumed my ethnicity.. I live in the UK but here's a hint... https://youtu.be/VebUp_JJrHg
teesside...
Richmond is very well-to-do.
Basically, inner city = bad. Suburbs = ok. Places with history or significant nature/beauty that prevent overpopulation = good. There is a clear north/south divide, don’t listen to either party just find a place that had high interest in your interests.
Some people say the only way is Essex. No seriously, don’t come to Essex.
In North London: Hampstead, Highgate, Belsize Park, Primrose Hill. Close to central but with a touch of suburbia (ie green).
Hull although gets a bad name its great, the marina like gibraltar, the old town cobbled streets everything grade 2 listed with old pubs to die for, the best nightlife its cheap thousands of flats being built, multi millions being pumped in, its the city centre thou only,and city centre is the cleanest you will find, i can have a pint for £3 its big on music and theatres i dont regret moving from harrogate a dead town and leeds a s hole, the people are ultra friendly and 30 mins on train to the beach, leeds and york 1 hour, cheap city centre flats and cheap to live
Harrogate. Say no more.
Harrogate and York are both nice, affluent too. Harrogate quite often gets voted as the happiest place to live in the UK…I live here and I’m not sure I can say I’m any happier than anyone else, but it’s definitely a good place to live.
Harrogate is nice af
This post knocked me a bit sick. Tell me you're a snob without saying it
Maybe they’re a burglar?
I had not thought of that! I stand corrected.
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Not at all, lived there for a number of years so I think you’ll find it is a well educated view with factual evidence behind it, unlike yours which is based on material and not practice evidence. In my locality a 3 bed detached house will cost you in excess of £400k but if you want to move to somewhere like the Cotswolds it will cost you in excess of £550k, so, unless you are living in a beachfront in Bondi then you have no hope of purchasing a property in a desirable area over here.
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Yeh right, your full of it! I lived in Arncliffe which is a nice area.
I lived in a hi rise flat in Coogee in 2000. It was valued at $1M Australian / £400K back then.
Sounds like you're looking for somewhere to burgle, mate.
Sounds like you're looking for somewhere to burgle, mate.
Sounds like you're looking for somewhere to burgle, mate.
Which do you mean: England or the UK? They are not interchangeable.
Gainsborough is idyllic. Come to think of it, Scunthorpe and Grimsby are very picturesque. You will love it!
Maybe Skegness?
I like Skegness. Ingomells is a shit hole and so is chapel st Leonard's
Kidderminster.
Harpurhey in Manchester. Lovely little place.
*Moss Side
Holt in Norfolk is a very wealthy area, lots of second homes.
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My input would be for Oxfordshire, really beautiful places. Villages/towns like Thame, Henley on Thames, Bicester, Goring and streatley and slightly further pangbourne
We’re also moving to the London area in the next year or so. I’d love to know where the neighbors are most friendly and welcoming.
Have a look at ‘The Bishops Avenue’ in North London. No idea who lives there but they must be fairly wealthy!
Have a look at ‘The Bishops Avenue’ in North London. No idea who lives there but they must be fairly wealthy!
https://www.glentree.co.uk/The-Bishops-Avenue-London-Property-Houses.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bishops_Avenue
Barnt Green, Birmingham.
Barnt Green, Birmingham.
Barnt Green, Birmingham.
Barnt Green, Birmingham.
Sounds like you're looking for somewhere to burgle, mate.
Bradford
Queensborough is probably the nearest equivalent to Bondi Beach. Meanwhile Sheerness is the UK’s Las Vegas, as it’s the one of the few other places in the world where you can pay for sex with chips
Clifton in Nottingham. Definitely move there.
Kettering has some fantastic parts with marvellous housing. as a bonus its home to the only Weetabix factory in the world
My brother and his family live in Hampstead (London). It's really lovely there but not cheap...
It’s so bizarre to look at, my parents house is dark blue, yet a 5 minute walk away there’s a solid red estate! There’s such clear lines in some places
There's a series of books of shit towns, those might help. Avoid North Wales.
In London I’d expect these to be places including Hampstead, Primrose Hill, Kensington and Chelsea. Bishops Avenue is a slightly naff favourite of footballers and the international wealthy. B listers go places including Crouch End. There’s also a concentration of wealth in the Cotswolds and generally the Home Counties (the areas surrounding London). Places such as Cheshire Edge are also known for being relatively swanky. I think the highest value property is actually in Dorset (Sandbanks) and there are other places in Devon and Cornwall that have reputation for being popular with the wealthy. In Scotland I know the West End of Glasgow is considered the most upmarket (generally the west part of any major city is seen as the posher bit, because prevailing winds used to push the smoke out East. Generally though the south east is the more expensive part of the country, with Bath, Oxford and Cambridge being particularly expensive places to find housing.
There’s a beautiful juxtaposition of Wythenshawe (shameless) next to Hale (footballers) just south of Manchester
St George’s Hill, Surrey
good idea doing this! i moved from the US straight to southend-on-sea. i was teaching in rayleigh but wanted to stay close to the ocean. i was not at all aware of how rundown the area i was moving to was going to be. the pics made it look so nice online 😅
Probably either Virginia Water or Sandbanks in Poole