Woking and surrounding areas

My wife has started talking about moving out of London and Woking and its surrounding areas are an obvious choice.

This is, I don't really know this area, I've been to Woking centre and it feels pretty soulless, a Yates's across the road form an O'Neil's reminds me of going out in the 90's, and not in a good way.

So, has anyone got any opinions or information about the area? What about the villages that surround?

Googles Woking

McLaren are based there!

Do you work in London? Do you drive?

I work in Surrey, I could cycle. That is one of the draws, I currently drive an hour each way. Wife is in the city.

Guildford is nice but then you're back to nearly London house prices. Outside of that I've found all of those large-ish commuter towns to be very similar; Woking, Hemel, Wycombe, Reading, Maidenhead, Slough - concrete town centers filled with betting & kebab shops.

Not the most inspiring places ever but they can be fun. I went for Reading, mostly due to geography rather than it being any nicer than the others.

SW sucks balls. Always seem to get the most grief from drivers down that way. Self-entitled, BMW/Porsche drivers filling up any lane that doesn't already have some city banker wanker on a Pinarello trying to beat their mate's Strava KOM...

High Wycombe is full of pricks too but they're the skaggy hot-hatch driving disaffected yoof with nothing better to do type..

Yes the golf club bore Surrey type. I'm familiar.

I actually viewed a house earlier and am now having a drink in the local. It's bland. The house was clinical and overpriced.

Worked in Woking for several years. Glad to see the back of it. Train service to Waterloo is generally good. Some of the surrounding villages are OK if you like that sort of thing. Which personally, I don't.

My friends have just moved to Mytchett (Mitchett?). It seems nice.

I lived in Woking for a while, it's the worst place in the whole UK, I'd rather live in David Cameron's anus than Woking.