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Timmy2wheels
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.