To move to Newport South Wales?

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Thinking about moving here to be closer to family. Was considering 30/40 miles to the South or East of Bristol, but realising that you can get a lot more for your money in Wales.

I’d appreciate some opinions and where to consider/where to avoid. Budget around 250k, theee beds and a garden. Approaching retirement.

Thanks.

I’ve stayed in the valleys a lot - EbbwVale etc that area ..

but out of interest why do you feel Newport is vile ?

Magor is beautiful I’m biased as live there and in Monmouthshire but on border - everyone appears to be English which has been interesting new railway planned too which will increase value new community hub quaint old town square

P.s lived near the valley areas too and so deprived also lots of hidden drug and crime issues more recently barber shop drug busts really hard to integrate as people locally have family and friends who have never moved on so no need for newby connections believe me I tried lol but friendly tho

I grew up round there, mum still is there.

It’s like everywhere else- a mix of good and bad.

I live between Derby Mansfield and Nottingham, so perhaps my standards are a bit low- Newport is no worse than them!

Ringland is OK, avoid Alway!

Ringland used to be the pits! I’m so pleased it’s picked up. A friend was severely bullied there- as in, broken limbs- but that was 45 years ago!

It’s in a good position, Ringland. Handy for the Coldra.

Not to be dramatic but Newport has been just been rated the highest crime rate in Wales.
looking on Rightmove you can tell - gorgeous houses for sale for cheap but no one will touch them.
Its a shithole

It has an awful reputation. A family member lives there. Only last week eight grown men were arrested for fighting in the street in a big brawl. Also lots of headlines in the news about it being one of the worst places to live.

I did go and view a couple of houses there some time ago and you get a lot for your money but I’m glad I didn’t move there looking back.

As previous people said, Magor/Undy are OK and handy for both bridges but they are mainly dormitory villages and you'll need a car. Chepstow is a good small town.

Chepstow would not be affordable to the OP though. Prices have rocketed since the bridge tolls were done away with.

It always was more expensive, I couldn't afford it in the 80s, except Bulwark, which is why I lived in Magor!

I don't know what the area is like to live in on the new building they've done on the Llanwern steelworks site?

As many others before me have said… just don’t. The only good thing about working in Newport was that I could drive away from it every day.

You could look at some areas in North Cardiff like Pontprennau on that budget which is close to the M4.

Oh good grief - sorry to hear about your friend ❤️

It’s the Aberthaw Road area I know

It’s useful info. I know people who moved to areas mainly because they were getting a bigger property for their money but realised after living there the area wasn’t the safest. It’s not much fun when you’re worried about leaving the flat/house unattended when you go out.

Those latest crime rates stats put Newport in 19th place for areas with highest crime rates in England and Wales.
Cardiff the capital city and on Newport’s doorstep is in 54th place - a not insignificant gap in the rankings between the 2.
Swansea is in 131st place.

Im not a fan of Cardiff, was driving there the other day and wondering why on earth so many people thought I should have moved there instead of Newport. Some nice restaurants sure (which Newport does seriously lack) but not a nice place.

Newport has community, I can take my kids to free activities everyday all summer. They’ve done arts in the oark, they could do a play in a week at the local free arts centre that also runs free yoga and adult art and sells coffee for £2. We could pop round to the community laundrette for free breakfast and kids activities or access a free council run playscheme every morning all holidays. We go on the march every winter celebrating the Chartists, history education for free (or £2 for the flaming torch!). We dig in the town centre sandpit which despite the apparently appalling crime rate has managed to keep all its free buckets and spades.

There’s a decent splash pad which unlike the one in Cardiff is mostly open, next to a great brand new park and a skate park that works for teens and little kids on scooters and in the same park we go and spend an hour or two on the river bank paddling in the perfectly clear river.

If we want to spend money we can still access all those chain coffee shops, buy doughnuts or fancy street food in the market or we can pop down to the art house for a vegetarian lunch. They’ve offer a co working space including said lunch for £12 a day.

We can get anywhere by train and they tend to run although the buses are pretty shit but not as shit as Cardiff which must surely run the worst bus system in the country (possibly rivalled by Bath)

I live in a nice house in a ‘bad’ part of Newport and honestly never had a crime issue although I’d not send my kids to the local secondary however who knows maybe I’m judging by reputation too.

Newport is fine, not brilliant but fine with a lot going on and cheap housing, the reputation inspires investment and community and that makes day to day life more fun and more affordable,

I’ve lived in Cardiff all my life and I love it. It’s been ranked one of the greenest cities in Europe with an abundance of parks, gardens,and riverside walks, a vibrant waterfront, really multicultural, world class arts and sports venues, an amazing collection of neo classical architecture, great shopping with lovely Victorian arcades, a castle in the middle, easy access to the Brecon Beacons and Gower Peninsula, I could go on…..there is no need to knock Cardiff because other people are knocking Newport, which I haven’t.

Try Gaer Road

See I just don’t get the Cardiff love but possibly I just don’t know it well enough. I go there a couple of times a week but I can’t get on with it. The bay is pleasant enough sure but commercialised, the arcades are lovely but I’ve not a shopper and the public transport is frustratingly bad (not that Newport has much of an edge there!).

To be fair I feel much the same about Bristol and there’s possibly something about living in a community versus visiting which improves your impression of it, maybe if I lived in either I’d like it and ditto if people lived in Newport.

Yes you are. Awful.

A dump. My elderly uncle lives in the last nice spot in town (Ridgeway) with beautiful views of the countryside from his windows. But he never goes any where, and has everything delivered, so he’s not bothered about the rest of the place!

You could get more for your money by going just outside Newport to Risca or Caerphilly, both have good local shops and schools and are on the train line to Cardiff.

Newport is considered to be on the up. There has been some improvements, so I hear. I haven’t spent much time there though.

Would you consider moving to Cardiff?

Hi, lived in Newport all my life. Like most towns and cities there is good and bad.

Areas i would look at would include
Caerleon
Ponthir
Rogerstone
Bassaleg
Handpost/ridgeway area
Christchurch
Langstone

There are new build estates in a few areas such as glan lynn, which would be convenient for travel to Bristol.

There are good in other parts of newport too, even if parts are seen as not so good.
Eg Parts of malpas, parts of st julians etc

Some of those areas may be out of budget.

There can be issues with the traffic from junction 28 to junction 24, but tgere can be traffic in lots of places.

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