Living in Guildford?
Discussion
Having lived for the last 4 years in south west london suburbia - Wifey and I have decided to up sticks and move further out.
We are looking to move to Guildford as its:
1) near her folks - no nippers yet but thinking of the babysitter potential...
2) on the A3 for both escaping/getting up to town (I work in Hammersmith)
3) decent trainline into Waterloo (If I move jobs in the next few years its highly likely to be based in the West End)
So - whats it like to live?
Commuter trains absolutely rammed?
Traffic a nightmare in rush hour? - (i plan to still drive in to work)
Were looking to be near-ish the station with easy access to the A3 Onslow Village-ish...
would be really useful if anyone can give any advice!
We are looking to move to Guildford as its:
1) near her folks - no nippers yet but thinking of the babysitter potential...
2) on the A3 for both escaping/getting up to town (I work in Hammersmith)
3) decent trainline into Waterloo (If I move jobs in the next few years its highly likely to be based in the West End)
So - whats it like to live?
Commuter trains absolutely rammed?
Traffic a nightmare in rush hour? - (i plan to still drive in to work)
Were looking to be near-ish the station with easy access to the A3 Onslow Village-ish...
would be really useful if anyone can give any advice!
Felters said:
You're fooling nobody. I don't even know why you bother asking. 
In my experience if the body clock is ticking and she wants to be closer to her parents then frankly your only options are to (a)give her a good slapping, or (b), start looking at Hamptons on-line for Surrey. We moved about 12 years ago...
If you really want to test commuting from Guildford why not move in with the in-laws for a few days and try commuting for real. I'd suggest you include Monday as my experience living near Alton is that the traffic either on SW Trains or the roads is that much heavier. Have you thought about a motorbike? The scameras that always seem to do brisk business are the fixed ones at the top of the A3 before you hit the Kingston by-pass. Good luck, but you are doomed.
Thanks for the vote of confidence!In my experience if the body clock is ticking and she wants to be closer to her parents then frankly your only options are to (a)give her a good slapping, or (b), start looking at Hamptons on-line for Surrey. We moved about 12 years ago...
If you really want to test commuting from Guildford why not move in with the in-laws for a few days and try commuting for real. I'd suggest you include Monday as my experience living near Alton is that the traffic either on SW Trains or the roads is that much heavier. Have you thought about a motorbike? The scameras that always seem to do brisk business are the fixed ones at the top of the A3 before you hit the Kingston by-pass. Good luck, but you are doomed.
her folks are actually in west byfleet - on reflection and having spoken to a few folk here at work, I think guildford is likely to be a no-no due to:
1) Traffic levels - a fella used to come up here from farnham and said it could take half an hour just to get through guildford in the rush hour - recons its even worse now....
2) Cost - having looked at whats available for our budget - i think we'd be better to look a little further north - possibly the outskirts of Woking....
any stories to that area?
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