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anyone from Cambridge?

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gloworm · 25/10/2005 10:42

We are living in Ireland at the moment, I'm Irish and DH is English, and we have 2 toddlers.
We are thinking about moving to Cambridge next year or year after.
It has been about 8 or 9 years years since we last lived there and I'm sure Cambridge (and us) has changed loads.
I'm looking for as much info as possible:
renting house
or buying house
good/bad areas
schools
good local websites
anything and everything!

Thanks in advance

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alliebaba · 23/02/2006 16:46

the foreign exchange students in big gangs on bikes are the most dangerous..it's like skittles

cupcakes · 23/02/2006 16:46

yes, but very funny

mousiemousie · 23/02/2006 16:47

you will qualify for on-site parking at addenbrookes whilst you have a child under 7 years old but it costs £1.40 a day . If renting you may as well rent within walking distance of work! The residential area near the hospital is nice.

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Gloworm · 23/02/2006 19:28

thanks for all the info and tips so far, and the trip down memory lane!

I know its probably changed loads, but I used to love Mill road, I lived on about 3 different street there over the years.

and let me be the first to remember Route 66, we always had a great laugh there, it was a grand place to stumble to if it was too cold to hang around outside after the Arms closed for the night.

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spacecadet · 23/02/2006 19:32

what in the new upmarket wine bar gizmo??

Milly1968 · 23/02/2006 22:33

Interesting thread, especially the comments about Mill Rd. We're hoping to move to Cambridge in three/four months time, and are currently in the process of buying a house quite close to Mill Rd and the station(as DH will be commuting back into London every day).

We've walked up Mill Rd quite a few times in the last few weeks and we both thought it was great. I loved the bookshops and Al Amin where we brought some really delicious freshly made curry. We currently live off one of the most grotty and depressing High Rds in inner London, ( almost every shop is a pound shop!) so we thought Mill Rd was actually quite upmarket!

I am currently trying to sort out a nursery/preschool for my 2 yr old twins, so if anyone has any info about nurseries in that part of Cambridge, I would be very interested to hear it.

laurawaterford · 24/02/2006 09:25

just want to say hello. feeling so nostalgic myself reading all the messages. I live in ireland now, but lived in milton for 3 years when daughter was a baby (nooo! i cant have a daughter aged 17! im still that myself..) so good to hear all the villages and stuff - ive never been back but have always wanted to revisit as a "tourist".

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Gloworm · 24/02/2006 10:32

milly, which street off mill road are you moving to?

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Gloworm · 24/02/2006 10:33

hi laura, amazing how many irish seem to have lived in Cambridge! do you ever think of going back?

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Prufrock · 24/02/2006 13:01

Milly - I thought that area was nice too - we were looking at house on Lyndewode and and lovely one on Glisson road. (Dh also commutes). but in the end we decided it was just a bit too Fulhamesque for us and that if we were moving out of London it was to get into the countryside.

Milly1968 · 24/02/2006 13:59

Lyndewode and Glisson roads are lovely. I would love to live on one of those roads, sadly though, those huge 5/6 bedroomed Edwardian houses are rather out of our price range. There was a lovely house on Lyndewode Rd which was on the market before xmas and apparently sold for close to £900,000! The prices seem pretty similar to where we live in London.

Gloworm - we're (hopefully) moving to a house which is fairly close to the station and also Mill Rd. Sorry, not to be more specific, I'm a bit wary about giving out too much info over the internet! I hope you manage to sort out your move. If you want to see what's available at the moment, I've found that www.primelocation.co.uk is a v.useful website (both for rentals and sales).

I am slightly concerned about some of the comments made on this thread about Mill Rd, however, as we current live near some pretty rough areas in inner London I am hoping that Mill Rd will be pretty tame in comparison. It seems a lot less grotty than it was almost 20 years ago when I was a student. I was quite glad to see that Fagitos is still there though!

alibubbles · 24/02/2006 16:38

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cupcakes · 24/02/2006 16:50

milly1968 - don't worry about Mill Road. It really is incredibly nice. My parents are very genteel and wouldn't live there if it wasn't pleasant.

stleger · 24/02/2006 17:26

Gloworm, do you have a house to sell in Ireland? If you are near Dublin you will be OK! We spent a term in Cambridge a couple of years ago, 15 years after moving 'home'. Newnham is nice but expensive, what about Comberton? (Alma and CRoss Keys were our ones).

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Gloworm · 24/02/2006 18:58

Stleger, we do have a house to sell, in Donegal. Its a new house and would be very esay to sell at the moment, we are not planning to move for a least a year though.

milly, as far as I remember the homeless etc used to hang out on mill road itself, not on the roads leading off it. Also mill road seems to be quiter the further along it you go.

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mousiemousie · 26/02/2006 15:59

More up market and more expensive housing the town side of the bridge...other side of the bridge is definitely cheaper & rougher with more tricky driving/parking - go for this side of the bridge if you can!

laurawaterford · 27/02/2006 08:00

gloworm - i often would love to go back!! When i moved to milton it was a small village, with rapidly increasing new housing estates!! The toddler group was brill. there was always other mums to meet for lunch with our toddlers in tow. I think tescos was at the end of the village. Now trying to remember which pubs where there. There was one near (butt? lane) that i would walk daughter to in the pushchair to get her to sleep and read my book in the garden with a pint on a friday evening waiting for hubby to come home from work - blisssssss

yellowrose · 17/08/2006 12:42

Hello everyone - I read this thread with great interest as I am moving to Cambridge, I hope within the next 6 months or so.

I will be renting as I am not working and can't afford a mortgage at the moment. I have a 2.2 year old son.

I hope no one minds me reviving an old discussion, but which areas inside Cambridge do you recommend ? As I don't know the place at all, I think I would like to live inside Cambridge and within walking distance of the centre if. poss. before I explore the village areas (which sound amazing !)

Any other names of good primary schools would be appreciated too please. I have been looking at ofsted reports, but I always think word of mouth is much better : )

Thanks !

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