Reply to: Reading, Berks

[privateeye]

Reading was on Panorama last night - showing all the Kosovan Warlord hideaways and Jamaican drug dens

[fair_play]

Well would you adam n eve it I have just moved from Crowthorne. Its a lovely lil place. I may move back now !!

[ratewhore]

All the above aside, here is the important bit:

Pubs - All the usual, O'Neills, Pitcher and Piano, Slug and Lettuce etc etc etc. Then there are the pubs like the Hobgoblin which is a CAMRA pub I believe, so you have the lot. And of course there is the obligatory 17 year old girls flitting between them in miniskirts and strap tops freezing their little titties off...

Lapdancing - The Honeypot. tulip but the best there is until the rumoured Spearmint Rhino opens in Caversham.

Shopping - Oracle. End of...

[privateeye]

I thought it had a station that connects to Reading.

It does, but no other conections to anywhere else. I think later at night a lot of trains just go straight through as its used as the express line to Gatwick from Reading. All trains must stop at Wokingham which is an interchage from the Gatwick/Reading and Reading/Waterloo lines. The Gatwick/Reading line is also quite unreliable.

The only bus I've seen has its windows blacked out and goes up Broadmoor way without stopping - never seems to come back out again.

[wendigo100]

Crowthorne is "must have car territory" but the town centre is much nicer than Wokingham.

I thought it had a station that connects to Reading.

[privateeye]

Crowthorne is the next station down the line from Wokingham but is much nicer. It is also the home of Broadmoor prison for the criminally insane.

Its been renamed Venture House, someone called S3 has taken it over

Crowthorne is "must have car territory" but the town centre is much nicer than Wokingham.

[wendigo100]

"I have an uncle that lives on the outskirts of Wokingham and that seems quite a nice place."

Whoa! There sailor. I live down the road from both places and trust me, if you think Wokingham is a good place to go out then you're then boy are you living in the fast lane!!!

Crowthorne is the next station down the line from Wokingham but is much nicer. It is also the home of Broadmoor prison for the criminally insane.

[darmstadt]

I stayed in Reading once, didn't get a wink of sleep due to the amount of police cars hoofing up and down the street all bloody night long. Don't forget that its in England which means you're liable to get glassed if you look at some other blokes bird.

[MarillionFan]

Master

"I have an uncle that lives on the outskirts of Wokingham and that seems quite a nice place."

Whoa! There sailor. I live down the road from both places and trust me, if you think Wokingham is a good place to go out then you're then boy are you living in the fast lane!!!

[NoddY]

You're all suburbanites at heart!

The real contractors will be paying for this :

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with £50 notes in brown envelopes. Just a stones throw from Paddington for the 'reverse' commute.

[weboo]

There is a reading office, but most advertise on rightmove....have a look on the site www.rightmove.co.uk to get a better idea for prices in regard to rent vs hotels.

I forgot about Twyford, its a little gem and has excellent rail links....10 mins to reading one way, 20 mins to london the other.

[privateeye]

The whole area is nice, just a shame they put Reading in it.

I'll second that - but to be fair Reading is coming up the league fast not just football wise. The Oracle with its bars and clubs is highly regarded and probably everything you need is in Reading. A lot of Reading houses are being knocked down and replaced by apartments which to me just makes it a depressing area but probably makes for a lot of buy-to-lets in the centre.

When either Reading FC or London Irish (who play home games in Reading ) the away clubs tend to stay in the Hilton or Coppid Beech Hotels on the Wokingham/Bracknell border which may be a clue as to the decency of the area. I'll always vote for Wokingham but the whole area has some great traditional market towns - Twyford is well worth looking at and has direct train links to Reading and Paddington.

Romans Estate Agents are amongst the top in the area for letting and I'm sure they have a Reading Office as well as in most of the other towns in the area.

[weboo]

You will have no problems finding good food, drink and entertainment in Reading. The Oracle shopping complex has everything you need. Shopping, food, drink and a cinema. Its lively at night too...

http://www.theoracle.com/Website/

In terms of living, all large towns or small cities have good and bad areas to live in.....the best thing to do in my opinion is look at the train stops around Reading....Wokingham, is highly recommended as its quiet and country like...only 15 mins on a train too. If you want to look in Reading, then search google for estate agents reading, they will be able to recommend nice places...then from there, get the nice places and look at BnB's or hotels in the area if thats your thing.

Good luck

[VectraMan]

The whole area is nice, just a shame they put Reading in it.

[TheMonkey]

Reading is a bit of a dump if you ask me.

Typical student crap hole.