What are the pros/cons of your neighborhood ?

[MeatPeatCeat]

Pros
Close to the town centre

Cons
quite small

Oh - and we have an airport and a major train station

Pros:
-It's just a lovely area, safe, attractive, friendly, clean
-Close to 2 big parks and a forest (all 5 mins walk from my house)
-Lots of cafes, shops, restaurants etc
-Easy access to Yorkshire Dales
-easy access to city centre

Cons:
Not a lot to be honest! We're an hour from the sea so that's a con
Some parts of neighbourhood are studenty (but not near us)

Pros
5 min drive to the coast
5 min drive to the city
Bus stops close by
Good sized gardens and spaces around
countryside walks
20 min drive to my fave town
Quiet
Good primary and secondary schools
Mainline train

Cons
Boring
Never any jobs locally
Expensive houses
Poor salaries
People seem to prefer horse riding than science
6 hours to London

Oh big con

People don't value education here
FE and HE is shite

Could be related to the lack of good jobs here so there's little point in working hard at school if the only options at college are bricklaying, beauty and animal husbandry

Pros

Lots of house/garden for your money
One way leafy street so quiet
Great for public transport
Great for nearby shops etc (we can walk to a huge marksies in 20 mins, or more often a huge B and M home bargains )
Near to lots of towns that are considered desirable

Cons
In a town considered very undesirable (bit unfairly tbh but still)
Neighbours all lived here ages and quite gossipy
Not anywhere near rural enough for me

Pro
Close to town centre
Near a lovely park
I can walk to work
Low traffic
Good bus selection to nearby cities

Cons
Limited selection of shops/businesses/Cafes/Takeaways
Very few properties to rent and rents sky high
No Entertainment like Theatre, Cinema etc

Pros:

Close to town centre and another amenities
Close to the countryside
Good local shops
Good schools locally
Good bus service

Cons:

Bloody potholes!

I can't really think of any other cons. I'm sure lots of people would say it's a dump as the town has a bad rep, but we've lived here 15 years and never had a problem, and bad things that happen here happen everywhere else too.

pros, beside a huge green with river going through it, right beside train into city centre within 20 minutes, lots of shops, restaurants and pubs within walking distance, 2 hospitals nearby, schools within walking distance
cons, horrible neighbours both sides of me

Pros:
Good public transport.
Great amenities, everything from Michelin-starred restaurants to great chippies and pubs on the doorstep.
Close to the city centre.
Green space round the corner.
Close to the sea.
Friendly, helpful neighbours.
Farmers market and Aldi.

Cons
Hard to park
Some minor antisocial behaviour typical of inner city life.
Endless roadworks.
Potholes.
Dog shit on the pavements.

Pros;

Last house on the track - protected land so nothing else can be built in the area.
500m to the nearest neighbour.
Top of a small hill so no flooding risk.
Daily bread delivery.
No light pollution.
No traffic noise.
No mortgage.
Horses on 3 sides of the house!

Cons;

Fire risk for 6 months of the year.
Hunters twice a week for the other six months.
10 minute drive to the mini-market, 20 minutes to the closest town.

I don't find it very scenic despite there being an ancient monument nearby and a nature reserve. It's mainly red brick houses which I assume were built after WWs. It's fairly safe and the supermarkets are close on foot.

But there is a major organisation nearby which is good for the area.

Most commotion I've seen around here was a woman running into a police car (no idea of background history) and the street was cordoned off.

It's OK, I can see a castle from the window. We have shops. Nice cafes and lots of pubs. I can walk onto the downs in less than five minutes and there is no where to build new houses.

It's not OK the place is over run with posh hippies. We have pointless pretty shops full of very green but pointless stuff. The latest obsession is rewilding the hight street. We can eat very exotic vegan food but have nowhere for young people to go and hang out or have a cheap meal like McDonald's. And nowhere to buy knickers. The south downs national park, the town council and district council, along with the county council and the hippies ensure that nothing sensible is achieved because they can never agree.

I live close to the centre of a large town. Specific to my neighbourhood I’d say:

Pros
excellent public transport (I wouldn’t live anywhere without this though tbf)
close to all amenities
diverse population and loads of ethnic shops etc
fairly cheap for the town
near a big park

Cons
crime/drugs
litter, fly tipping, people not looking after the area
not close to much green space other than the one park
air and light pollution

Would vary for other neighbourhoods in the town but overall I think the town is an ok place to live. We are looking to move slightly further out in the future but need to balance commute/good public transport with access to green space.

Pros
Handy for work
Handy for DS’s school, and any after-school activity you care to think of
Good transport links - three different train lines, tube and multiple buses
Shop across the road is open 24/7
Four great parks in easy walking distance
Choice of two swimming pools
Loads of pubs/restaurants
Town centre with boots/H&M etc 15 mins walk away
Good local hospital

Cons
Not in catchment for any decent secondary schools (long way out of catchment for any secondaries at all, actually - so you end up travelling miles out of area to undersubscribed schools)
We’re in a flat - moving up to a house would mean tripling our mortgage and houses around here are all cramped, with tiny gardens.
”Rough” reputation
Fair amount of mugging/car crime
Supermarkets are all miles away (we use delivery)
Local GPs are objectively shit.
Parking is terrible (I don’t have a car so doesn’t matter to me, but it is a drawback for lots of people).

Pros: Excellent public transport and easy to drive out of the city (we're near the edge). Big nature reserve half a mile away. Two shopping centres where you can get most anything, each less than a mile away. Down-to-earth neighbours from diverse backgrounds. Neighbours generally friendly but not intrusive.

Cons: Traffic noise. Expensive. Blatant drug dealer a few doors down. It's on a main road and it's near impossible to pull in and out of our drive at rush hour - loads of pedestrians, cyclists, electric scooter users, as well as cars.

Pros
close to station which 3 of our household use regularly
good bus routes to town and supermarkets if needed - bus stop 20 yards from house
reasonable local shops
quite quiet - never had any noise issues apart from an odd loud party
lots of parking
our town generally is good for easy access to lots of other places

Cons
it's not particularly pretty
house prices are ridiculous as is rent
new builds going up in every inch of available space with the usual lack of infrastructure
traffic can be dire
city fiber digging up seemingly every road within a 2 mile radius all at once (that could be an exaggeration!)

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Pro: Rural.

Con: Rural 😂

Great for scenery and community.
Appalling if you actually need to get anywhere fast. Internet shopping is my friend, and you just hope you don’t need medical attention in a hurry.

cons. damn dog that no one takes care of out back.. she barks at everything moving.
pros. well we just retired from the snow belt in canada to here so...