Hi All,
Does anyone live in or around Faringdon and can give us an opinion of what's it like to live there?
We're currently renting in Witney and are looking to buy a property in the area, however we cannot quite find something decent within our budget. We had found a newly built property in one of the newer estates, but the sale fell through due to a bad survey result.
We've started looking around in other towns and found a nice new build property in Faringdon, but we don't know much about the area. We visited a few times to get a sense of what it'd be like to live there and this is my assessment:
- the town centre seems dead; a couple of nice little cafes, but that's about it.
- not many amenities, at least compared to Witney (but appreciate it's a smaller town, which is ok).
- doesn't feel unsafe and it's rather quiet (which we like).
- not many options in terms of schools (we have a 3 months old boy)?
- nice countryside nearby (similar to Witney I guess).
We actually like the idea of living in a smaller town, but we're also wondering whether it's just a romanticised view and we might end up hating it once the novelty wears off. We lived in London before Witney. Took a while to adjust, but we eventually started to like living here (especially the nature around it, safety and proximity to Oxford). Buying a house is a big investment and we wouldn't to be in a position to having to sell in a few years and/or being stuck because of location.
There's seems to be a bit going on looking at the Faringdon FB groups, but again hard to give a fair assessment unless you lived there for a while.
Hopefully someone can give us a better idea of what Faringdon has to offer.
TIA!