Working in Slough, where to live

Working in Slough, where to live

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Croutons

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9,807 posts

165 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Flexible hours it seems so can possibly beat some traffic, Windsor looks nice as does Marlow, although other than a posh pub I'm not sure what it's got. Anywhere else worth looking at? Even Slough itself!?!

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

158 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Budget?

TNTom

230 posts

176 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Crowthorne is nice, junction 10 off the M4 about 25 mins away. Little village lots of independent shops, but has everything you need.

mikees

2,745 posts

171 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Cookham every time. Expensive mind. Lived there for 5 years until last year

HappyMidget

6,788 posts

114 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Woodley, by J10 is nice. I would never personally live in Slough.

Croutons

Original Poster:

9,807 posts

165 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Troubleatmill said:
Budget?
Flexible. Initially will be renting for one so anything from a spare room to 2-bed house, if it becomes permanent then a 3/4 bed house where schools will matter, and up to £900k max, but not that committed yet. Initially somewhere commutable and "not st", with an eye that I can refine when closer to it if I stay.

Ynox

1,702 posts

178 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Windsor gets my vote. Or if you want cheaper, consider Staines (where I live - it's not that st really!). If it's just a place to crash in the week - Slough itself is pretty dire but as a means to an end it'd not be a bad choice.

Edit - 900k budget for a house - Windsor, Ascot, Virginia Water etc are all pretty nice!

Edited by Ynox on Sunday 20th March 21:25

HappyMidget

6,788 posts

114 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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Anywhere within the Wokingham Council area is one of the best places in the country to live apparently. Some damn fine schools and 900k will get you something very nice.

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Sunday 20th March 2016
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What about Stoke Poges/Gerrrards Cross less than 5 miles away and the roads to and from are pretty light on traffic - Slough is pretty much surrounded by nice areas, despite being the hole it is.


velocefica

4,636 posts

107 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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900k you say.

How about The North. You could have a whole town for that up there.

The jiffle king

6,894 posts

257 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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Windsor is great and it's quicker to cycle through Eton and beat the traffic than take the car. Just moved out of Windsor to the US but it's a great place!!

theboyfold

10,910 posts

225 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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HappyMidget said:
Anywhere within the Wokingham Council area is one of the best places in the country to live apparently. Some damn fine schools and 900k will get you something very nice.
This is good advice. I live in Twyford and it's not that hard to get to Slough from here (we even have a few nice roads)

900k will buy a nice family home around these parts http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/35093922 just one of many around here

e600

1,315 posts

151 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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Beaconsfield , although not too sure if £900k would be enough anymore. Nice place, I stayed there for 6 months many years ago. Good shops lots of pubs and easy commute.

Croutons

Original Poster:

9,807 posts

165 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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Thanks peep, useful stuff,

Its a contract with Blackberry (they wanted perm & would do so immediately) but I'd before I buy given their solvency. I've moved the family around a lot of late (currently in Cheltenham, a well balanced town; it has a chip on both shoulders for reasons I simply cannot fathom).

Anyone in Marlow itself? Is it just a 1* pub or is there more to it?

rb5er

11,657 posts

171 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, Farnham Common, Stoke Poges/Wexham.

megaphone

10,694 posts

250 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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Marlow is a lovely town, good high St, lots of shops,good pubs and bars and restaurants. The River. It can be busy getting in and out in rush hour. Good road connections, easy to get to M40 and M4. High Wycombe is just up the road and has a good shopping centre, JL and Waitrose.

IceBoy

2,443 posts

220 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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The villages around Windsor and Maidenhead!
IceBoy

Steve Campbell

2,110 posts

167 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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I'm in Farnham Royal, previously in Finchamstead near Wokingham. Depends on your commute tolerance as always. The M4 is getting worse & worse.

You don't say what type of area or type of house you are looking for (town, village, countryside etc). Detached, town house ? Big garden ? How many bedrooms ? All of this area is expensive, it then just becomes to what degree. You could easily splash £900k in Windsor on a nice large town house I reckon.

I wouldn't recommend Slough itself....but the town isn't that big so within 3 or 4 miles there are plenty of nice villages and spots to live. For closer to Slough, look at Windsor in the South then north, from Farnham Common and almost anything North towards the Chalfonts and NW towards Wycombe.

I'd stay clear of Bracknell, but Ascot, Virginia Waters etc are all nice (& expensive :-))

Wokingham is a nice spot, and has expanded quite significantly over the past 10 years. You can commute into Slough through the back roads around Twyford rather than the nightmare that can be the M4.

For schools, Bucks still runs Grammar school system if your kids are clever. This partly pushes house prices up in my opinion. PM me if you want specific commentary on any of the above.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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e600 said:
Beaconsfield , although not too sure if £900k would be enough anymore.
Based on other threads on here, isn't everywhere in the SE doubling every 18mths?

okgo

37,859 posts

197 months

Monday 21st March 2016
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Sheepshanks said:
Based on other threads on here, isn't everywhere in the SE doubling every 18mths?
I can't see that 900k buys you quite what many on this thread are suggesting, either, to be honest...?

Townhouses in Windsor are certainly going to be over a million.