Please tell me about Living in Redditch? 🏠

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We are relocating and Redditch looks like the best place that's affordable and close enough to where my partner will be working. We can't afford to live in the town where his job actually is.

Neither of us has ever lived nor visited Redditch.

The housing market looks great there, almost too good, which makes us wonder what the catch is?

We currently live in the West Midlands in a city not known for being...super classy and across the street from people committing crimes daily so our expectations aren't that high.

We figure Redditch can't be any worse or can it? 🤔

i used to live in redditch and it was a terrible place to live theres 2 parts of redditch a good side and bad side trust me the bad side is a terrible place

i lived in redditch for about 5 years and it was not a good experitce

We moved to Astwood Bank several years ago and despite job changes and a longer commute I don’t want to leave. A lovely village, everyone is friendly and suppportive, a nice pub, cafe bar, farm shop, takeaways, hair dressers and beauty salon all in the village. Our child loves the school, lots of great activities organised by the PTA. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

There is a very active community group, at Christmas they close the main road for a couple of hours, have food and drink stalls while Santa turns on the lights. They also do carols in the park with lots of mulled wine and mince pies.

It’s the village carnival on 8 July, you should pop along to get a feel for the place.

Redditch town centre isn’t nice, but Solihull and Stratford are short drives away and Birmingham is easy to get to on the train.