Where to live?

[LucidDementia]

FFS, the obvious answer is Swindon.

8 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Croft Road, Old Town, SN1

Imagine what that house might be worth if it was somewhere people wanted to live.

[DimPrawn]

FFS, the obvious answer is Swindon.

8 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Croft Road, Old Town, SN1

[FarmerPalmer]

Chippenham, it's on the M4 and on the mainline to Paddington via Reading.

[LucidDementia]

I think you have been brainwashed by the Indian outsourcing companies that cheap is best !

Quicker is best - cheaper is bonus.

Everybody want free ring ding.

[fullyautomatix]

Where to live
So an IT worker, working along the M4 corridor, mostly working in and around Reading. 2 kids one primary and one secondary.
Want a 3 bed semi with garage and drive, guaranteed catchment area access to an ofsted rated one (or two at a push if absolutely essential but no worse) primary and secondary school. Want to live within walking distance to a train station.
Within commuting distance (say an hour by car) of such jobs, and meeting these requirements, where is the cheapest place to live? Or selection of the cheapest places?
Any ideas?
Cheers

I think you have been brainwashed by the Indian outsourcing companies that cheap is best !

[fullyautomatix]

Gosh you are so lazy.

Get in your car with your other half and do a drive around the area.

Identify places you like the look of, then look them up.

[MicrosoftBob]

Gosh you are so lazy.

Get in your car with your other half and do a drive around the area.

Identify places you like the look of, then look them up.

Quite I was doing that when I was working a good 7 /78 hours drive away from where I wanted a house

Worst case do it at the weekends, it's your future choose wisely

[AtW]

Where to live Any ideas? Cheers

Monaco

[Bacchus]

If work was always near Reading station then maybe these ideas would be worthwhile. But back to the original spec of somewhere within roughly an hours drive where is the cheapest place? OK will accept somewhere where all the schools are 2, but keeping away from the 3's and 4's (to do a big picture scan like this its necessary). When there is a shortlist of places more investigation can be done.

Out of curiosity WTF would you want to live in the CHEAPEST place??? Surely the best or the best value.

If you want cheap stay in Reading, get a place down the Oxford Rd, get your kids into Bluecoats, otherwise go and live somewhere nice like Henley and get the best house you can afford.

[SueEllen]

If work was always near Reading station then maybe these ideas would be worthwhile. But back to the original spec of somewhere within roughly an hours drive where is the cheapest place? OK will accept somewhere where all the schools are 2, but keeping away from the 3's and 4's (to do a big picture scan like this its necessary). When there is a shortlist of places more investigation can be done.

Gosh you are so lazy.

Get in your car with your other half and do a drive around the area.

Identify places you like the look of, then look them up.