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  • I'm probably not the right person to ask as I love London and moved just outside for a dull set of practical reasons. If I moved properly away from a big city it would be to <2k village / countryside.

    What is the list of things you don't like about where you are at the moment?

  • Where do I start... Well, it's on the A10 - so horrendously busy. We knew this when we bought the house, but we had to move fast, were limited on choice and assumed we'd get used to the noise - no. It's a linear village with no natural centre. It does have a good kids' playground and community orchard off the main road, but it feels bleak and isolated; there's no cafe so people don't tend to congregate there. Two pubs and a third former pub-turned-Indian-restaurant have closed in the past three years. Despite being just a few miles from Cambridge, the bus service is piss-poor so everyone drives.

    On the plus side, the school is great, there is a brewery which has some great tap nights, and we've met some lovely people - although no-one we've really clicked with. Cambridge is nice enough but it's a bit anodyne; it's certainly lost the 'alternative' edge it had pre-millennium.

    Gah, fuck knows what the right thing to do is.

  • Wait until AstraZeneca and their 2000 staff move into the new global HQ down the road and get your house valued again! Also the new Papworth should be open March/April next year which can only help. I have a feeling the A10 south west of Cambridge is going to turn into a car park most days.

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