Safe area or not?

[mks76]

I am a femaile art student and I am moving to london to study.  I am wondering, since I will be living alone if the area is safe or not.  The artschool is in Kennington and I was thinking of finding a place there but then I started to hear that it is not a good area and that I should rather stay in the north, near Camden.  Can someone tell me if Kennington is nice or not?

[Octavius]

All areas of London have a good and bad side to them, the area around Camden station can be far worse than some areas around Kennington.  If you decide to live near Kenington I would keep as far away from Elephant & Castle as possible.  Obviously the nicer the area the more expensive it is to live.

Lambeth has a lot of social problems and so finding the right area to live around there would be difficult, even for Londoners.  If you are young, free and single, a hip 'n' trendy place you could consider would be Clapham, also you have Balham or Tooting, which would all give easy access to Kennington on the Northern Line.  Good luck.

[londongirl]

I agree with Octavius....Balham and Clapham are both nice, and within easy reach of Kennington, and they are fairly cheap. You might want to check out moveflat.com which has flatshares, and a location map to help decide where to move.

I would avoid moving to Kennington really, having wandered around there several times on an evening waiting for the nightbus, its not the nicest and safest of places.