Cambridge/ Huntingdon area

[uptightmama]

My husband is likely to be offered a job in Huntingdon and I have been looking at the area to find where might be a good place to move to. We are a multi-cultural family and love the look of Cambridge, but would be above our budget by quite a long shot. I wondered if anyone has an idea of where would be a good place to live that is more affordable (family of 4 and top budget of 200k) and has a nice mix of internationally minded type people, not insular anti immigration types!
Quite like the look of Papworth Everand and Swavesey also looks good. Schooling/ having like minded people around is more important to us than house size - but a good house would be nice too!
If anyone has any ideas or opinions, would be really grateful - thanks

Schooling in Swavesey reputed to be good. Also try Hardwick and Cambourne? Presume you're using Rightmove for prices? And have you posted in MN local?

Yes - think Papworth and Swavesey look great from a house price/ school point of view - just wondering what it's like living there? If full of incomers/ any multi cultural/ multi national familes as that would be idea.
Will look at Hardwick, not keen on Cambourne but can see its' appeal - will
try the local pages as well.
Thanks

ideal (not idea!)

I live in a South Cambs village (south rather than west of Cambridge) and multi cultural it is not though it isn't full of bigots either. Shall I be the first to say "Keep away from the Fens"?
Cambridge itself is very multi-cultural but expensive.

Thanks Lilymaid.
Thought Fens may be best avoided - but I sort of wondered if there was some kind of frontier there might be in Cambs where that type of mentality may start?
Going north of Cambridge we would get a lot more for our money - would St Ives or Ely be beyond the pale?

There have been a few threads on Cambs and the locale relocation recently:
here
more recent
here
here
More here

It comes up pretty regularly - the best topics to search in are this one and also the local area.
HTH

Stilton is lovely. Short dirve to Huntingdon and Peterborough. Good primary school. Very reasonable prices - nice village feel.

Why keep away from the Fens?

St Ives or Ely would entirely depend on how much you are willing to commute.

They won't be multi-cultural though. It's all very white round here. You might as well just look for somewhere in or around Huntingdon

I used to live in Cambridgeshire and I loved Ely, Chatteris and Warboys.
Altho Ely is prob better suited as the other 2 are just villages really.

I would avoid Papworth - feels more like a large housing estate than a village. We live in between St Ives and Huntingdon and though not very multicultural ST ives and the surrounding villages are lovely and people are very friendly.

Thanks for all the suggestions - Stilton is very good value and would def like to investigate further.Do still quite like the idea of having Cambridge as the nearest main centre though.
Appreciate there is probably nowhere very multi cultural in the area, but is there anywhere with more of a hippy/ arty/ bohemian side? Not that I am especially - but it may rub off on me!

Let me be the first to say ... try and avoid A14 as a commuting route!