Choosing an office for your company is actually a very important decision and is one you need to take with great care indeed.
Location
One thing to remember when choosing an office to move into is that you want it in a place that is going to be easily accessed by your employees and customers that may want to come in for meetings and things like that. Customers and employees will not be able to get into the office so what is the point in putting it in the middle of nowhere. You wouldn’t get any customers which means of course that you wouldn’t get any business which then of course means no offices needed. Who wants to buy a office to rent in the middle of nowhere.
You need to make sure that your office is near a train station and possibly even near an airport, could the business go international.
Personal Choice
Personal choice will always come into it and when choosing the office for you make sure you listen to yourself. You are going to choose a town or city near you there is no doubt about that and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Paying employees enough money so that they can actually get to the location your office is at is key. You could do what we do here, simply pay out for travel. If they are late then take the months travel benefit away from them for a week or two.
Of course you could just get a small office and occasionally hire out something like London conference venues or meeting rooms London.
One thing to remember is that you should never rush anything because you will be making the wrong decision. It is a location where you will be spending the most part of your life in, it is as simple as that.