key_areas

Area	Rate	Neighbours	Distance from the city	Comments
Acton	Cheapish	Antipodeans*	30 mins	Central
Archway	Good	n/a	20 mins	Quiet
Bayswater	Expensive	n/a	10 mins	Central location
Brixton	Good	Dodgy and hip	15 mins	Can be dodgy area but full of funky bars, cafes and shops
Camberwell	Cheap Students, squatters	n/a	30 mins	No tube
Camden	Good	Tourist central on weekends	12 mins	Overcrowding on weekends due to markets
Chelsea	Expensive	Well to do	15 mins	Great shopping
Chiswick	Expensive	n/a	20 mins	n/a
Clapham	Moderate to Getting expensive	Young exec couples	20 mins	Three tubes and Clapham Junction Station
Ealing	Good	Quiet	25 mins	n/a
Earl's Court	Expensive	Antipodean Central	13 mins	No good eats
Fulham	Good to Moderate	Up and coming	16 mins	Not a great tube line (Fulham Broadway Tube Station)
Hackney	Cheap	Not so safe	25 mins	n/a
Hammersmith	Moderate Middle of the road	n/a	18 mins	Some decent pubs
Hampstead	Off the Richter scale	Top of the line	18 mins	Great to visit the Heath
Harlesden	Cheap	20 mins	n/a	n/a
Holloway	Average to Moderate	Average to funky	30 mins	Loads of restaurants and bars
Hounslow	Cheap	40 mins	n/a	Close to Heathrow - good for access, bad for noise
Islington	Moderate to Expensive	Up and comings	12 mins	n/a
Kensal Green	Average	Um…	30 mins	No pubs
Kensington	Expensive	Top of the line	15 mins	Label shopping
Kentish Town	Moderate to Expensive	Moderate to Expensive	15 mins	n/a
Kew	Moderate to Expensive	n/a	35 mins	n/a
Kilburn	Cheap	Irish	20 mins	Good pubs
King's Cross	Cheap (cave) to Moderate (Flat)	Pros and Druggies	5 mins	Home to some of the great nightclubs
Notting Hill	Expensive	Yes, dahling	14 mins	Nottinghill Festival
Putney	Moderate to Expensive	Up and coming working Antipodeans	35 mins Overland Train only	Great pubs and cafes
Richmond-upon-Thames	Expensive	Ditto	22 mins	Great to walk along the Thames and stop for lunch at one of the pubs
Shepherd's Bush	Cheap	Antipodean hang out	22 mins	Good pubs and live music venues
Stockwell	Cheap to Moderate	Average	15 mins	Like Brixton
West Hampstead	Moderate to Expensive	Up and comings	30 mins	Cheaper version of Hampstead
Willesden Green	Average	Antipodeans, esp. Sth Africans	20 mins	n/a
Wimbledon	Expensive	Older generation	30 mins	n/a