Moving to Nottingham

[Ikara1234]

We are moving to Nottingham from SE London and have been looking to buy. Buying in ie Arnold, Gedling, Calverton etc has not been easy. We see a house we like and next agent telling us someone has offered more.

We don't want a village, we didn't mind Calverton because the house we found was very out of the village 12 mins drive to Arnold.

We decided to look out and found Mansfield. Am a nurse and and DH works in construction. We have 9 and 1 year old. The schools review i have been reading online has been requires improvement.

Please help is Mansfield a good place to live?

Thanks.

Not really, depending on your budget the best places around the area are West Bridgford, or Southwell, some of Newark is worth looking at also. Mansfield isnt great now. What isyour budget OP?

Mansfield was never great.

What is your budget? Where are you going to be working?

Mansfield is the pits, Arnold isn't much better. Are you looking at the north of Nottingham?

Mansfield is a bit grim to be honest. Plenty of nicer places. If you want to be central rather than more rural have you considered beeston area? West bridgford?

Where will you be working, whereabouts do you want to be, any particular facilities important, and what's your budget?

Mansfield isn't great, no.

Mansfield is a shit home, with a backwards mentality in every way possible.

Sherwood
Carrington
Beeston
Mapperley

Our budget is 300 and i have been offered jobs Gedling and Newark.

@Ikara1234

Our budget is 300 and i have been offered jobs Gedling and Newark.

Oh am scared now, i didn't know that.

our budget is 300 thousand.

Mansfield, Sutton, Kirkby - anything in that area is awful. Yes you’ll get more bang for your buck but you’re stuck in ex pit towns rife with racism, homophobia and misogyny. The town centres are shit tips.

I know you said not a village, but what about Bingham?- bigger than a village, easy travel access to Newark & North Notts, great schools and lots of new housing.

I wouldn't aim for Mansfield, no.

Lowdham, Burton Joyce, Mapperley, Woodthorpe, Lambley are all nice and a sensible distance from Gedling.

Mansfield definitely not great (I live about 20 mins away from it and about 45mins -1hr north of Nottingham).

As others have said where are you and your DH going to be working? That will have an impact on where you're living, eg living in Calverton and working at QMC would be a 'mare.

If you're working at Kingsmill, look at Edwinstowe.....nice village/small town and an easy drive into Mansfield. Good primaries only Edwinstowe, secondary would be Mansfield or Worksop

The areas and budget you're looking for, are moving very quickly at the moment. Keep looking at Arnold and Gedling, add Hucknall, Sherwood, Beeston. All are areas with good parts and parts to avoid.

Have you looked at Hucknall? Easy access to the city, reasonable prices.

There are some 'nicer' parts of Mansfield (Berry Hill I think?).

Mapperley/Porchester/Thorneywood has some nice homes.

Nuthall and Kimberley are ok, good schools.

I find Nottingham tends to be too expensive/fast moving or too cheap/not great area.

@Huntswomanonthemove

Lowdham, Burton Joyce, Mapperley, Woodthorpe, Lambley are all nice and a sensible distance from Gedling.

I'd agree, all of these are good places to look, and would be lovely to live in.

Ok, so looking along the Nott'm - Newark train line would be relevant e.g. Burton Joyce (more suburb than village), Lowdham (nice, quite big, may be expensive) etc.

Radcliffe or Bingham may be worth a look.

Your budget is decent. I think you'd get something spacious enough in the 'medium price' areas, you don't have to go cheap. Whereas you might find something small-ish in the expensive areas - like west Bridgford or Southwell. But WB's the wrong direction for you anyway, you don't want to be driving across the river every day.

In town look at Mapperley. Not Mapperley Park which is expensive but just north of there. Also Woodthorpe. Closer in maybe Carrington.

Not sure about schools there.

Thank you ladies, i have made a note of all the places mentioned and would start looking at those. DH will find work when we move but luckily i work for NHS so i got offers already.

And we are people of colour i want to avoid where my kids will be bullied because of their race, i know it can happen anywhere.

@BitcherOfBlakiven

Mansfield is a shit home, with a backwards mentality in every way possible.

Sherwood
Carrington
Beeston
Mapperley

Agree on these are areas to look if you might be working to the north. West Bridgford is always recommended on MN but will likley be over your budget, due to very desirable schools (a bit like Dulwich) but it's defintely not the only place to live!

Not sure about Hucknall. Maybe it's improved but in the past I got 'mini-Mansfield' ish vibes there.

Beeston-Chilwell is good but surely wrong side of town for you.

Of you're thinking of Calverton that's very different to London and is very white. Also due to the house building services are stretched without any expansion. The local pharmacy cant even get drugs delivered on time.

Carrington and Sherwood have a better multi cultural mix if that's important.

Bingham is quite pleasant.

West Bridgford is the aspirational area.

And we are people of colour i want to avoid where my kids will be bullied because of their race, i know it can happen anywhere.

Definitely not Mansfield, Sutton or Kirkby. Probably not Arnold, Newark or Hucknall. Sherwood, Carrington etc are more diverse and open.

Much of North Notts is very much pro Brexit, anti immigration, don't like any kind of difference.

Also due to the house building services are stretched without any expansion.

This is a massive problem all over Nottinghamshire. Some areas will campaign against cuts and for better services, the more backward ones will blame (what they see as) outsiders.

My DC have just finished at one of the Archway Learning Trust schools (academy group) which are well thought of - any of the city schools will have a reasonably diverse intake.