Places to live around (but not in) Croydon

Don't live in Norwood, whatever you do....more stabbings/murders/muggings/gun crime round there than in the rest of london put together, and its barely ever publicized as few people actually ever die....just get horribly mangled!

 

Shirley area is fine. Was only there yesterday visiting friends.

 

Whyltleafe? Find somewhere in Godstone or round there. Much nicer, I know that area well, nice , almost countryside

 

thornton heath!

 

If your working in Whyetelafe why do you want to live in Croydon? You could live in or near to Guildford/Woking, lots of nice places around there.

 

That'd be one hell of a fun commute

 

I'm pretty fine in Addiscombe, it's quiet here.
And the tram comes here, so it's easy to get around.

 

Shirley has a clear dividing line between chav scum sections and nicer areas, but it is very close to croydon town centre, I do not think it is what you really want. The only truly nice place near croydon is any property in the whitgift foundation, but you will need a loaded wallet. Purley would be a nice choice.

Avoid Addiscombe, addington, shirley. All too near to croydon town centre to be any different. Coulsdon might be worth a look, but you will get lots of college kids around.

 

Part of Shirley I was in was OK. Lots of leafey roads etc.

 

*Twitch*

I currently live here, it's a pretty nice area once you get past the 13-14 year olds who think they're actually 20. Pretty big town centre with enough shops and a decent cinema.

Nearest gyms would be going towards Mitcham/Aiming towards the top (past station) on Sutton to Cannons.

Lots of clubs/pubs/places to chill out, and if you find the right place can be quite quiet. (Hell, I live 200m from a estate and I get no noise here)

 

Sutton is chav central of the world. Mark my words, Croydon get the bad rep that sutton deserves.

 

Sadly, even though what I said about the place; I'm going to agree a bit with what you said.

I was up in Manor Park (Near B&Q) and two fights broke out, really big ones. Rather silly.

But, it is quite nice other than that. Just depends where you live in Sutton.

 

Could just get the train from Guildford? Lovely place, go to uni here and its mostly commuters I see at the station

 

Guildfords fucking miles from Croydon.

 

Its only about 50 mins by train, which isn't that bad.

But I suppose its down to personal preference at the end of the day. Woking would be better by about 10 mins, but personally you couldn't pay me to live in Woking.

 

Gaffer, move in with Thrody, problem sorted.

 

He will be working in Whyetelafe, not Croydon, Guildford is only a short distance further than Croydon and the people there (generally) don't smell of piss. Decent night life there with less scumbags and chavs than Croydon, good shopping centre and easy access to Reading, Woking and London.

 

Pardon my lack of geography (I've only knew theses places existed till this year when I started working in Leatherhead), but according to a map, Whyteleafe to Croydon is 5.4 miles, it's 31.7 miles to Guildford, on the M25 too uke:

 

Beckenham near Bromley is quite good...not too far from Croyden

 

Its actually about 29 miles Guildford > Whyteleafe and 20 miles Crawley > Whyteleafe, talking dead centre of each town, where nobody would want to live, Anyway, he has said he doesn't want to live there so it doesn't matter