Living in/near Southampton

[acnebride]

I know there was another thread about this but both searches seem to be refusing everything by me at the moment. Before ds I lived in Hedge End but wouldn't really want to move back there. If dh ends up working in Southampton (near Oxford Street), we're going to want to rent somewhere either a walk away or an easy rail commute, ideally. I just looked at Hythe information and though it sounds nice in itself I'm not sure. Could anyone give a few names of areas that they would like to live, that might actually have somewhere to rent??

Prices probably not too much of a prob as we would be moving from Oxford

Hi acnebride,I live in Ringwood which is a 30 min drive away but I used to live in Southampton.Highfield ,Inner Avenue and Upper Shirley are nice areas of Southampton .Hythe is pretty dull if I remember correctly.Chandlers Ford is a nice town/suburb that has a train station.It has really good schools .Ocean Village has lots of new apartments right near Oxford Street.
hth

I had a boyfriend who lived in Portswood when I were a nipper, that was niceish and had gorgeous houses

or it may have been Highfield

bugger I can't remember now, anyway was on the left as you drove south down the Avenue

My mum lives in Chandlers Ford.
It has a waitrose

upper Shirley and highfield are nice, as is Basset, parts of Woolston are nice too as is Netley near victoria country Park

ooh thank you!

chandlers ford. hm there's a thought. upper shirley - v useful, shirley seems to cover the known universe so it's handy to have it broken down, thank you.