AIBU- really worried about moving to Northampton

[up1978]

we are looking to move to Northampton (Weston Favell area) or maybe somewhere else still not 100% sure from London. I have 2 children one going into high school in September and i am really worried that he wont do as well in school as he will be an in year transfer and I wouldnt really get a choice on where he gets a place as most good schools are oversubscribed. Just really anxious about it all. If any of you live in the area please let me know what its like living there with kids.

Yes Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire all meet at the A5 watling Street.
And
Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire are similar villages such as Badby bear Daventry are Northamptonshire and villages such as Byfield used to come under Northamptonshire and now come under Oxfordshire.
Northampton used to be a genteel market town but it is now a bit grim and I think marketed as the home of Poundland!
However, there are some very upmarket villages.

@bookmum08 I would end It there too if I were you because you are clearly not qualified to give anyone wanting to live here any advice re moving here , having not set foot in the county yourself & living
in London.

@NoWordForFluffy No, my reading comprehension is just fine. You said and
I quote:

'if I was moving back to the county I'd move to one of the villages as some are bloody lovely'

So you don't actually live here now. Why is that?

God this is boring! Thank god I'm out of this place!

@NoWordForFluffy also why is your anecdotal evidence superseding mine?

I can imagine your neighbours will be glad to see you go, if you have this attitude with them that you have here.

Op, I hope you can see these posts. This is the mentality of the people replying on your thread. They have either never lived here or don't live here anymore. That in itself speaks volumes.

@Mrsoh39 well they were crying yesterday. Perhaps they were of joy
as you say.

I live in Oundle. I absolutely love it. It's pretty, has plenty of shops, close to rail stations into London, beautiful countryside around, and Oundle is a very good public school, and the comprehensive is making a come-back.

Catherine eh? I spend several times a year in Northamptonshire including much of the summer this year. I may not 'live' there but I know about it's politics and the finance issues, and the schools and what cultural stuff goes on etc. I talk to my family and read up on what is going on and I am involved with various social media groups based in the area.
Anyway. Goodbye. Enjoy the Jazz festival in Ealing that you recommended earlier. Personally I hate jazz so I won't go. I would rather go to Geek Con in Kettering!

@bookmum08 I knew you wouldn't go. You never struck me as a jazz enthusiast!

Oh come on Catherine, you can't say we are all like you say and not expect someone to defend that, because we are not, you might have experienced some crap people from here, I can assure you we are not like that, there are rude, obnoxious people everywhere.

@Mrsoh39 go to bed now luv, it's a sch night.

I won't thanks luv, it's a teachers training day tomorrow, might stay up a bit later.

@Mrsoh39 oh yes, that's right. Teacher Training/Christmas shopping day. Enjoy. The rest of us will keep
the commercial wheels turning!

And where do you get from that that I'm a teacher?
This is getting derailed and it's not fair on the op, we are not all unfriendly here op not matter what some posters will try and tell you.

CatherineofTaragon you posts are full pf PA atracks.

@WitchesHatRim do you mean your ?

@Mrsoh39 I didn't say you were.

Collingtree is nice, or how about Wootton? The surrounding villages are lovely and you could get a 4-5 bed with huge garden for £800k. Yes you have to make the effort to integrate (the villages really are places where you're considered "new" until you're second generation) but are generally friendly. East Haddon has a good pub I think. The bramptons are stunning.

NSG and NSB are great state schools, both selective and single sex.

I can get what people say about bits of Northampton being a bit wierd - it's like that in Bedfordshire. We were both in a village in Bedford near a university. My DH fitted right in but I tried and got involved in the local youth group but somehow I stuck out like a sore thumb. I stuck the youth group for 6 weeks when in that time no-one asked about my GBC, no-one had a meeting with me - even though it would have been a short one just to give me some idea what was wanted, and it was only in hindsight that they thought I was just another 6th former?!
We were there for 4 years and made 0 friends. We made more friends in the West Midlands in that time when we didn't even live there full time!

Someone earlier commented on how friendly the North East is, but DM lived in a village there for 40+ years and they still called her 'the southerner'. I think that is just village mentality and can happen anywhere.
Back to Northants: I have been here nearly 40 years and wouldn't li be anywhere else.

Any thoughts on my earlier post?

bookmum08

In answer to your question about how I would know that if the op moved to near family they would end up seeing them less.

It has been the experience of quite a lot of the people I know who have moved back and parents/in laws/siblings see them less than when they lived away.

There is even a thread on here today about someone has done exactly that and found that they are now ignored.
They are a few minutes up the road from parents and they have seen them 10 times in 4 years.

up1978 what do your children think about moving.

Oliversmumsarmy that sounds very sad for those people. But there must be more too it. If someone has only seen their parents 10 times in four years despite living close then there has to be more of a back story. But it does sound very sad.