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The problems living in London came when we had children and more so when they became school age. Finding a decent state school is difficult so private schools appear to be the way to go. We ended up with two children in private education, with our daughter having to do a 30 min+ each way school run everyday in queuing traffic.
West London is just a nightmare for traffic especially school runners in 4wd. My son went to a private school round the corner, and apart from being populated by "toffs", taking him to school was a dice with death from mothers driving Range Rovers and Porsche Cayenne's.
Yes we earned a lot of money between us, but school fees kept rising and the next house size up would have cost us about a million quid.
Anyway, we sold our pokey terraced house in Chiswick last year, converted it to Canadian dollars and did a bunk.
The opportunities for kids here are much better, more space, cleaner air, safer environment and the other children more pleasant, less aggresive and well mannered.
I'm very glad I've lived in London, it's a great place if you're single or have no kids. But with kids it became a nightmare.
I don't think we "tired of life", we just got tired of the grind.
I miss Richmond Park for running though.
Perhaps we'll move back when the kids have left home, London house prices have crashed and the pound/dollar rate has gone the other way
Perhaps they've ground to a shuddering halt. For the time being. Until the next boom.
Speaking to our ex-neighbours they say that prices have gone down 10-15% since we sold, which on a house in Chiswick is a fair amount of cash.
Still can't believe somebody paid what they did for our old house, but I guess that's what the people we bought off in 1996 said.
Right now with the a 10% drop in London, the house price rise here and the weakening pound we could move back and buy a bigger house.
But you're right, I guess there'll be another boom fuelled by over-borrowing sometime in the future.
Then again, he wrote that in 1777 and London has probably changed a little bit since then.
Old Peculiar.
Timothy Taylor Landlord.
Old Speckled Hen.
Marstons Pedigree...mmmmmmmmmmm!!!
Youngs Winter's Warmer - and it does
Tanglefoot
Black Sheep
Yum!
And bought a bottle of something called Fursty Ferret the other day!