Stoke-on-Trent

[BaldBrown]

Hello all!

I'm back at it again, looking at possible spots to start looking in.

I'm investigating Stoke-on-Trent; does anyone have any first hand experience of the area? Any spots to avoid? Diverse (we are a black family)? Safe?

Here is what I've found:

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118807523?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/115451786?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

@Comefromaway I left the school in 2001

I was just going to say that! Look at Liverpool and the Wirral, in particular New Brighton. I know both Stoke-on-Trent and the Wirral and I'd choose the latter any day of the week.

@OnTheBrinkOfChange just googled the Wirral! Looks lovely!!

Further south, Stone is nice, but not very cheap. Eccleshall is very nice but is expensive and smaller. Surrounding villages are okay but few have any shops or facilities. You get more bangs for your buck in some of the villages closer to Stafford than those more out in the sticks. Stoke itself and the towns in the centre of Stoke in general I'd avoid (and I was brought up in Burnley😉).
Stafford is indeed a shadow of what it was 30 years ago, but most of it is 'clean and respectable', it's handy for the M6, and has reasonably decent train services.

LMHO BELPER,never ever go there please 🥺 . It's a beautiful place and in the heart of the peak District,very very clicky but if your face fits then your a lifer as they will make you feel brilliant. The place has good schools close by ,a few shops ,the nearest city is dirty Derby ,then miles away from shootingham meaning Nottingham.... It's about ten miles to Matlock which is nice to visit and Matlock bath on a Sunday . Houses are quite affordable too. Good for kids and very safe 🙏 but nothing for teenagers at all . But it's your call but I'd always go visit places to get a feel of the people and the place first before anything period. Hope you find what you're looking for so good luck 🤞 and when you find what you like you will just know . X

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Personally I'd go for Leek, arty lots going on and good food. House prices v reasonable. Endon nice but not much going on. Consider Buxton. Penkhull is the nicest part within stoke and fairly diverse and welcoming. Have loads of community activities. Plays, wassailing, has its own flag. It's Very near the hospital and i find alot of the staff live there.

Leek very close to roaches for climbing and walks, 5 mins drive out to peak district. Rudyard and tittesworth lakes for water sports. Rspb places like coombe valley which has loads of kids play stuff and an aeriel walkway. Big forest school here too with a forest group for home ed. Easy trips out to manchester Birmingham and liverpool. 👍

Hi ☺️ just always go check the place out before making any decisions. Check into a local hotel so you can actually spend some time with the local people and where the best places in that area are. As they say doesn't matter where you live really,as home is what you make it PERIOD 🙏 ❤️ but I send you all the luck and happiness in the world 🌎. Good luck 🤞

Zombie!

My son lives In the Silverdale area of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It seems a friendly area, and would be quite pleasant but for the stink from a local tip "Walley's Quarry" which is frequently nauseating.

Another thing to watch out for when buying a house in the Stoke/Newcastle area is subsidence due to the extensive coal mining in the area in the past and also use of "red ash" in the foundations of houses http://www.cashforhousesstoke.co.uk/sell-a-house-with-red-ash

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@ToffeeNotCoffee

Heyy, this is an old thread and hoping your still on here, I wondered if your area is maybank? I'm in stone currently but from jjst outside of Stoke originally, I found the part of an area near to hanley where I grew up then was diverse but there was racism, but at school most kids just got along, the racism seemed to start when I was older teen and usually only between some small groups of older white kids and the Pakistani community, other than that we all got along and I liked that mix, most kids knocked about with a mix of the local community kids which there was def some mixed race and some black children to and it was then fine, but the area was bad for drugs, there was some really dodgy groups around that area that did seep in to the lives of the older children and some sadly haven't faired very well but it's not all of the area and it's a shame, I still go back to the many parks with my child as we love them more as they're busier and find most people very friendly, this is the reason for my post, weirdly to some I miss the place, I can't go back to that part as it is jjsy too drug ridden but I am in a town about 12 miles away and it's too rural for me and maybe just not my cup of tea, I miss the characters of people where I was but o don't want rough but I don't want bland either! So hrs to explain. I thohhht maybe maybank was a good middle ground, westlands a bit too posh for me I think but I don't know the area that well, it'd be lovely to make some friends who are from Asian, black backgrounds too as this town there isn't, it's friendly where I am though which again is a shame as I'd love to make some different friends. Thank you x