How much do you need to earn to have a decent flat/life in London?

My dads lived in Cricklewood for about 30 years.

Golders Green is boring theres no night life at all but im assuming your not that arsed!?

Its in a good part of the city i suppose, Camden is only a few stops away and everything you need is no longer than a 15 minute tube journey.

I know cricklewood well, was contemplating it as you get more for your money - but there's no underground which put me off.

there's plenty to do in Golders on a night, you just need to know which rabbi's door to knock on

Haha. I normally walk to brent cross tube station - its a nice little walk past the park then past all the rude boys' flats near the school. Its well dodgy ive had a few strange looks. Its a bit of a shit hole actually, Cricklewood needs tidying up imo.

He lives opposite Hendon football club - last time i was there i think they had pulled it down or the locals were protesting because flats are getting built in it place. Shame.

That is true actually, I'm 26 and those days are long gone.

That's exactly it. I want to be able to wake up on Saturday and go exploring interesting places, having been to new bars/clubs the night before instead of mr lynch for the billionth time.

you can do that from suburbia... I'm in zone 3 or 4 and its only 15 minutes into the city... hardly a mission.

I get the plus of living in a safe, quiet, green(ish), crime free, residential area.... no squats, hoodies, 24 hour bars, overcrowded chicken cottages & kebab shops.

Crime free my arse

Scallys target areas like that because everyones a rich wuss....easy targets

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...VCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/17/nsteamers17.xml

lol thats like saying darras hall has more crime than meadowell because all the radgies target those soft touches in the burbs.

It's true what Joe says, as long as you're in or around zones 3-4, it really doesn't take that long getting anywhere to be honest.

I've been here almost a year- and there's still places/bars/clubs I haven't been to yet. There really is that much stuff to do..

I may live in zone 1, but I'm still close to plenty of green spaces- Victoria Park, London Fields, Shoreditch Park etc

And although I'm living in an area populated my many Nathan Barley-esque idiots, there's still an abundance of good places to go drinking.

Shoreditch is great to visit, but to live there?

I'd rather live in finsbury park surrounded by radical muslims than take my chances with the bellends in shoreditch/hoxton

Whats the point of mugging people who havent got anything worth nicking and are more likely to give the mugger a good shoeing

this is the most retarded argument ever... as a general rule of thumb affluent neighbourhoods have less crime than areas populated by dodgy criminals.

i couldnt care less, you said it was crime free and it isnt

Well, I like living there, which surely is all that matters?

Yeah, there are plenty of bellends, but they're hardly threatening.

Besides, I'm not planning on living there forever, but at 26 I'm ready for suburbia just yet, as it would bore me to tears!

I lived in Putney- and it didn't feel for one minute like I was living in London, just some small town that had been swallowed up by London's expansion.

lol sorry that may of sounded a bit catty it wasn't intended that way, just everyone was telling me how bored they'd be living in "suburbia" (or golders as I know it)... I was just stating that I'd be more bored living with the hoxton massive.

different strokes and all that

Ha ha, that's ok. Eventually I will head up north (Highgate etc), but for now I quite like being in the middle of it all..

To be fair, it is pretentious beyond belief, but if you don't let the idiots bother you, it's a pretty decent place to live.

I'm off to explore this weekend