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G'day All

I'm moving to London in about 8 weeks and would appreciate any advice, tips, experiences etc that anyone would like to share.

Dogwatcher has offered some assistance with regards to the best places live/places to avoid which gave me the idea of putting this thread up - thanks mate!

Anyone got any ideas/experiences on the best/worst places to live? (I want to find an area where my wife can feel safe walking home from the tube station, on a budget of up to 220 quid per week)

Any experiences on must see places/places to avoid would also be appreciated.

Cheers in advance!

stayed in putney for a while- quite central and a pretty safe area..lots of aussies there . Good acess by tube to everywhere.

as for must see places- i love covent garden- it is the West end were all the theatres are with awesome pubs to boot. seeing a show in one of the theatres (lyceum is a presonal fave) is awesome fun. Hyde park is also fantastic for chilling out and escaping the husle and bussle
all the usuals are worth seeing esp westmister abbey,st pauls cath, the london eye, tower of london, buck palace and most importntly LORDS-
have fun london IMHO is one of the best cities in the world.

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Dont walk late at night in BRIXTON
I did in 1981, never again.

mal wrote:Dont walk late at night in BRIXTON
I did in 1981, never again.

Why, no TAB's open?

For sports nuts Lords is mandatory and if you get up to Scotland so is St Andrews....absolutely amazing places

Cheers so far fellas - usefull stuff there.

That's funny RE: Brixton. I've heard that Peckham is the 'South Central Cali' of London and is usually on fire. Brixon isn't too far from Peckham so I'll give that one a big miss!!! TAB or no TAB!!!

And yeah Lords is high up on the list of must do's. Gotta convince the wife to stick around until 2009 for the Ashes!!! Fat chance getting tickets to Lords though I guess!

and for a man that loves a beer the "Lords Taverner" right next to the ground is a mighty fine watering hole!!!

Coorong wrote:

mal wrote:Dont walk late at night in BRIXTON
I did in 1981, never again.

Why, no TAB's open?

Went to WIMBLEDON dogs, had a great night
And visited Uncle WILLIAM HILL a few times
Named a betting shop after a young me LADbroke

The highlight of my trip in 81
I trained with the lads in the nets got photos of ROD HOGG, Graham YALLOP and me.
Bowled a couple of balls at YALLOP.

Went to the LORDS test in 85...we won that game
Simon ODONELL hitting the winning runs from memory

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS IN ENGLAND

Wimbledon dogs
UNDERGROUND trains
Big Ben
Greenich [time museums]
Bath [roman museum]
Buckingham Palace
The sheila I met in Trafalgar square

Get caught up in the Brixton riots (or cause them) did we mal?

Mr66 wrote:Get caught up in the Brixton riots (or cause them) did we mal?

1981 there was riots there
I was staying in Southall at the time
Actually walked through Brixton in the daytime, didnt notice anything.
The locals eventually briefed me on the area.

As Mary Hopkins once sang THOSE WERE THE DAYS.

devilsadvocate wrote: I've heard that Peckham is the 'South Central Cali' of London and is usually on fire. Brixon isn't too far from Peckham so I'll give that one a big miss!!! TAB or no TAB!!!

LOL!

I lived in Peckham and neighbouring Lewisham for a bit.

Believe it or not, I can honestly say that I didn't have any troubles there.

But yes, South London does have a bad rep.

YOU WHAT?

mal wrote:Dont walk late at night in BRIXTON
I did in 1981, never again.

See any guns in Brixton Mal?

Dutchy wrote:For sports nuts Lords is mandatory

Just don't expect to take a photo of the blessed urn. Earlier this year they banned the taking of photos. Really makes me wish I'd gone to see the thing when it was in Adelaide late last year!

Dogwatcher wrote:

mal wrote:Dont walk late at night in BRIXTON
I did in 1981, never again.

See any guns in Brixton Mal?

Actually walked through there in the daytime, just got the
post wrong
I walked there in 1981
but apparently dont walk thru there at night according to the locals.

mal wrote:Went to WIMBLEDON dogs, had a great night

The 'Wombles of Wimbeldon Common' don't look like any dogs I've ever seen!

A group of us at uni have been planning to spend about two years teaching in the UK in 2009-2010. We probably didn't really take the idea too seriously until we remembered the Ashes will be on in England in 2009. Thats all the convincing we needed.

Even with the stupidly high cost of living in England, we will be getting $1430 a week as a supply teacher.

PAFC - let me know when you want to teach in the UK. I work for teaching agencies in the UK and can give you sme contacts that will make us both money.

Ahhh I like it - mutual back scratching.

Now, if only I can convince my missus (a teacher) to head to the UK for a year.

Maddogmike wrote:PAFC - let me know when you want to teach in the UK. I work for teaching agencies in the UK and can give you sme contacts that will make us both money.

From what I hear, we should sign up with three agencies. We had one come to our uni yesterday, absolutely stunning Kiwi chick did the presentation, she could have sold us anything!!!