How many people are in Docklands? I have been offered a middleweight SQL DBA's role - which is nice?
Nice area?
Nice area?
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Originally posted by MarillionFan
Transport is a pain, housing costs are relativly high and there's bugger all to do in the immediate area."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife. -
Whereabouts in Docklands?Originally posted by MarillionFan
I live there so I think it is alright.
If you never have to step off the Canary Wharf estate I think its a pretty good place to work. Watch out though. There are firms based in outlying areas away from the Wharf and those places are pretty grim.Comment
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worked there 3 years ago ... not bad ... decents pubs/restaurants and shopping centre for a lunch time walkabout.Originally posted by MarillionFan
i rented my accom. somewhere else ... try and rent some place near the DLR.Johnny Talibani MumbaiComment
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Yeh I worked in Canary Wharf during the summer, its a goo dplace with good aminities, but transport to get there (although reliable) it just takes for ever (if like me come from a western direction)
There are good resturants and bars, but in the evenings its not like central London - me personally I found it a concrete jungle, and is not as nice as other parts around the Thames e.g. area round Towers of London.Comment
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Canary Wharf has loads of shops/bars true, but it's doesn't have the class or soul of the City of London.
A couple of years ago I was considering having a small office in one or the other. I didn't do it in the end but my choice would have been the City.Drivel is my specialityComment
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I guess it depends what you are used to. I am in the City now and I don't much like socialising around there however that does not compare with the dislike that I have for the West End.Originally posted by SandyDown
There are plenty of decent bars around Canary Wharf but not enough as they tend to be packed to the rafters on Wednesday/Thursday and Friday evenings.
There are only 3 or 4 decent "boozers" and they are a little off the beaten track but well worth the effort to get away from the scrums you have to fight through to get to the bar (although plenty do table service if you are there early enough to get a table).
Other considerations - there are a couple of shopping centres which will provide all the basics.
There is plenty of space and in the summer it feels much less claustrophobic than the city. But in the winter when the wind blows it can be an effort to stay on your feet - particulary unpleasant if it is combined with rain. Although it should be possible to avoid going outside much if you can navigate your way through the shopping malls.Comment
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fwiw i would die. no mountains, no salmon, no fresh air either!Comment
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Are there a lot of parks and fields in that area ? I haven't been to the Docklands, but I have some sort of idea that it is like a Cambridge Science Park....all high-tech, glass and steel, surrounded by sculpted fields for the worker to have their sandwiches in at lunchtime, feed the deer, etc.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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There aren't any deer! Its just that the street layout does not date back to the days before the great fire of London like they do in the City so the buildings are not piled on top of each other.Originally posted by Board Game GeekComment
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