I’m not a snob but I like to live in nice quiet places with no antisocial behaviour.
Also dh grew up there and I still have family there who are slowly moving out to the villages. I have spent a lot of time there over the last 18 years.
Coton green, mostly council sandwiched between the leyfields (bad) and a railway with a side serving of sewage farm and yes you can smell it in the summer. Loads of new builds next to the sewage farm and the farmers are selling the land for more.
Glascote Heath, next to Glascote mostly council, rundown.
Bonehill has mile oak right next door to it. Not nice.
Fazely. Horrendously busy traffic area next one of the rivers that floods that’s why the flood defences are so high. Mile oak near by.
Perrycrofts, nice but between qems school and borough park (rough as fuck)
Loads of new builds with country views but dh knew the farmers who own it and it’s earmarked for development which some locals don’t realise.
Stoneydelph, just don’t.
Riverside is ok but it’s surrounded by industrial estates and they’ve only got the flooding under control in the last few years. Might struggle with insurance.
Hopwas, near the flood plane but nice. Bit more country.
Dostills not awful.
Gillway lane, massive expensive houses but school traffic for rawlett is awful and despite the speed bumps I would not let my cat out there.
New build estate by the Audi garage, built on a flood plane.
The cinema parking floods by the snow dome. Cars get stranded.
Traffics awful because all the new houses have cars and the roads can’t cope. Takes ages to get anywhere these days with all the traffic lights. The A5 looms large, awful congestion on the A5 at rush hour due to the traffic lights on the island. I mean two gates isn’t awful but you see the A5 from your garden. The road by Qems is awful, there always patching it and the massive pot holes still come back at the traffic lights over the bridge,
Drs surgery’s are not marvellous. Again direct experience of them personally and professionally.
When you tell people you live in Tamworth they say “oh, they’re all a bit “funny” there aren’t they” and make a joke about the water. A lot of the Birmingham slums got cleared out to Tamworth & Redditch which is how dhs family got there.
The only good shop was John Lewis but it shut down so they built ANOTHER Aldi there. Tamworth has about 4 Aldis in a town with 70k people.
The houses are terribly expensive too for the area. You’d have a bit of a journey taking a kid to rawlett if you lived in Glascote heath or bonehill because you’ve got to go through town and it’s chocca.
Lichfield has a Waitrose & little boutique shops. Tudor buildings & cobblestones.