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Calling anyone who knows BRISTOL

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Lonelymum · 26/01/2005 18:44

Fill me in on the place. Dh has just been offered a job and we are moving to Bristol, but we have to decide some things very quickly. Dh has to start job in a fortnight and I would like to just pick up the kids and go with him. Work will rent us a house for 6 months so we have time to buy later but still need to know which areas to look at.

A lot of our decision is based on schools. From what we can tell on the internet, good schools are The Castle Thornbury, Marlwood, Cotham and The Ridings. We also don't really want to live in the centre of Bristol but in a smaller community to the north or west. Can anyone advise please? Nice areas? Not nice areas? We are going to look at the weekend. Where would you suggest we looked?

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WestCountryLass · 07/02/2005 18:50

Well we really hadn't thought about the Ham Green area but when we viewed that house in Portishead we drove back via the Clifton Suspension Bridge and detoured through the villages and although it's a small village it does only takes 5 minutes to get to Clifton (DHs office is in Clifton) and the same to get on the motorway; Cribbs with Morrisons/Asda etc is 10 mins away. Plus there are some good infant schools and a half decent secondary school in the village that is improving standards which is a bonus.

www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/109/109317.pdf

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Lonelymum · 07/02/2005 20:00

sobernow, that is what we are going to do. Dh's company are renting a house for us for six months. He has just come home with 2 other properties that are outside chances for us to buy (one on a main road and one that is a wreck and needs doing up, but is still our top budget) so I fell quite optismistic that in the 6 months we will sell our house and find somewhere suitable to buy.
OMG WCL, it never occurred to me that you or someone you knew might have lived in one of those houses! Sorry if I was a bit rude. Still, you have to admit, from the outside it doesn't look that nice.
How old are your children? If they are still young, that secondary school has plenty of time to improve. Our eldest is in Yr 4 so we are more concerned about the secondary than the primary for him.

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WestCountryLass · 07/02/2005 20:04

Oh no, don't get me wrong, they are bloody ugly! Just trying to make you feel better that looks can be deceptive

WestCountryLass · 07/02/2005 20:04

My DS is 3 and my DD is 7 months btw.

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Lonelymum · 07/02/2005 20:06

Also, what did you mean by "at the time it was a nice estate". Did it go down hill? As we are only renting temporarily, I don't really mind too much what it is like, but I did ask dh to check for signs of drug use, dumped cars etc!

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WestCountryLass · 07/02/2005 20:10

I meant nothing by it but I don't live in Thornbury now so can only speak for what it was like, not what its like now. I don't tink you'll find any hyperdermics or burnt out wrecks!

WestCountryLass · 08/02/2005 21:05

I went to see the other house in Ham Green today and it was lovely but the garden was small, what to do, what to do....

WestCountryLass · 08/02/2005 21:06

I went to see the other house in Ham Green today and it was lovely but the garden was small, what to do, what to do....

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Lonelymum · 09/02/2005 14:59

Are you into gardening? If it is just for the children, is there somewhere else they could play nearby? I know they are young now, but my 8 and 7 year olds play on a small green a short way from our house as our garden isn't very big either.
Has dh seen the Ham Green house? If you are not sure, perhaps he could come up with a definitive yes or no?

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WestCountryLass · 09/02/2005 21:15

The plan is DH is coming to view on Saturday morning, he is not bothered about the garden but I wnat him to be sure before we put in an offer. If he is up for it and assumming the sale goes ahead then we would put cast iron railings and a gate around the front house and drive so that the kids could ride a bike/kick a ball out the front safely.

Sounds like a plan eh?

Hows your hunt going? Any luck with that rented house?

WestCountryLass · 09/02/2005 21:16

PS. There is a field at the back of the house and a park and a green and public footpaths, I would be surrounded by grass!

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Lonelymum · 09/02/2005 21:16

So the Pill house has had it then?

No, no further movements with our house. Dh sent off a cheque to the renting agents but there is still loads of paper work to be done.

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Lonelymum · 09/02/2005 21:17

Oh you will be fine then. When your children are older they can play in the public areas without you shouting at them to keep off the flower borders!

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WestCountryLass · 09/02/2005 21:22

Oh yeah, definitely decided not being able to park would be a problem with kids as young as mine are now. Couldn't imagine the weekly shop - yikes!

WestCountryLass · 12/02/2005 11:33

We put an offer in this morning and are waiting for the vendors response - yikes!

booge · 14/02/2005 13:49

If anyone is still looking in this area, I can't recommend Clevedon highly enough as a place to live having moved here from Bristol 18 months ago. I'm not sure of the quality of the schools but it is such a friendly town, very quick to the motorways and Bristol, the sea front is lovely for watching the sunset over Wales and the surrounding countryside beautiful with the Mendips and levels nearby. We've never looked back.

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