Where should I live in the UK?

[Future_Londonite]

@Quartz

I used to work there - at Selex. My house isn’t quite visible - it’s just around the hill if you look East.

Any jobs going? My interview was not successful.

Well if you’re a finance person I might have a position coming - looks like I have serial-pregger on my hands. One of my teammembers is due back from maternity in 3 weeks but yesterday I received a letter stating she’s pregnant again and due early June…so instead of taking her on for just those few months, we’re offloading her on a taskforce and will be looking for a permanent replacement. I know we’ll have to give her a job when she comes back in June 2010 but we’ll worry about that then (apparently we don’t have to give her her job back just a job at this location at a comparable level)

[Quartz]

@Future_Londonite

Well if you’re a finance person I might have a position coming

I’m in IT, but my attitude is one of obeying the Golden Rule.

[Nava]

@Petrobey_Mavromihalis

Also would there be any negative feeling to people moving in from the south? I certainly don’t sound half Scots.

Uh? I’m in Glasgow but the reactions I’ve gotten for “yeah, I’m from Spain, me and my coworkers have been sent here by our employer to do some work in (well known company)” have all been positive… and in our case, you could say we’re stealing jobs!

People think it’s lovely that we’re enjoying Scotland.

[kferr]

@Charley

Seems like you picked a good time to be looking for property, anyway!

From personal experience, some parts of Hampshire are nice, and very handy for all sorts of other places. Where I live, for instance, I’m 20 minutes from places like Reading, Farnham, Guildford and deepest leafiest Surrey. The houses aren’t cheap, but they’re not hugely expensive, there’s tonnes of greenery and we’re less than an hour by train from London and less than that by car to the coast. No mountains though :). Obviously handy for airports - Heathrow, Gatwick even the minor London ones.

We are surrounded by Ministry of Defence land where we live, so it’s protected from development. There are so many places to walk here we bought a labrador to give us the excuse! The schools seem very good and it feels like a safe part of the world for our daughter (she’s also 2).

Farnborough or Aldershot?

[Charley]

@kferr

Farnborough or Aldershot?

thought someone might spot it! Fleet, so technically Aldershot, I guess. We moved here by accident, but it’s wonderful. We love it here.

[kferr]

@Charley

thought someone might spot it! Fleet, so technically Aldershot, I guess. We moved here by accident, but it’s wonderful. We love it here.

I’m in Farnborough and your description sounds exactly like where I live.

Back to the OP, I’ll second the Derbyshire recommendation. I was in Derby last weekend and looked in a few estate agent windows. An average 3 bed house was about £100,000 cheaper than around here.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Yeovil. Cheap, safe, a few minutes from the best bits of Somerset and Dorset.