My Sisters house in Virginia Water

mewbie_2

StevieJ wrote: »

I remember going there as a kid, very nice, how did it get its name? the name has always stuck with me.

The name came from the tobacco company. They experimented on beagles round there. Used to dump the carcasses in the water.

lostinrates

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

Its also close to the M25, M3 and Heathrow, I'm sure motorway and airplane noise is not worth half a million to me...

I guess the current 50mph limit for the roadworks on the M3 has boosted the price...

Bloody nightmre. Took me more than twice, probably thrice as long as it shoud have to get into London on Friday, and the static traffic made the car sick. Weirdly, something I've never seen on a friday, let alone a Bank holiday,the traffic going west was never stationary, but rather going in towards London was the problem. Totally odd, more like a Monday than a Friday.

StevieJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Bloody nightmre. Took me more than twice, probably thrice as long as it shoud have to get into London on Friday, and the static traffic made the car sick. Weirdly, something I've never seen on a friday, let alone a Bank holiday,the traffic going west was never stationary, but rather going in towards London was the problem. Totally odd, more like a Monday than a Friday.

It is those dam caravans that do it around here :mad:

BettiePage

Virginia Water has always been an expensive area. I hope the sale goes through with no hitches for your sister.

lostinrates

StevieJ wrote: »

It is those dam caravans that do it around here :mad:

Generally things block up at stonehenge, and on the stretches of single carriage way, but vtehre are enough dual carriage way bits to not sit behind caravans etc for most bits (Fir and mon excluded.) When we came out for weekends we used to leave very late when the road was clear.

The_Plush_Doormat

A swallow just flew by. Hoorah. Summer is here just in time for the August Bank Holiday. What? One swallow doesn't make a Summer? Silly old doormat. :rolleyes:

michaels

A303 - I'd sooner have root canal work - m4 and m5 for me every time - beats sitting at 35 (if you are lucky) waiting for the next short stretch of dual carriageway where you will soon be stationary as the traffic merges back down to 1 lane...

lostinrates wrote: »

Generally things block up at stonehenge, and on the stretches of single carriage way, but vtehre are enough dual carriage way bits to not sit behind caravans etc for most bits (Fir and mon excluded.) When we came out for weekends we used to leave very late when the road was clear.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

A303 - I'd sooner have root canal work - m4 and m5 for me every time - beats sitting at 35 (if you are lucky) waiting for the next short stretch of dual carriageway where you will soon be stationary as the traffic merges back down to 1 lane...

I sometimes M4 and drop down cross country, but, honestly, time it right, A303 is not bad, (I often beat the train times, legally.)but yesterday heading westbound was a dream:which really was bizarre. Besides which, I love seeing stonehenge. I never get bored of it, specially in bad weather, or dawn.

SingleSue

I think that what has to be remembered (this is me with my serious head on), is that in every property crash/recession etc, there will always be somewhere which is bucking the trend.

There will still be property hot spots just like in the boom, there was property eek spots, price rises and price falls are not uniform across the country.

Oh and the A303 is the most boring road I have ever had the 'pleasure' to drive along...

geoffky

i have just done 600miles to longleat and monkeys world in Dorset and we had to come home late last night as the traffic was the worst i have ever seen in the uk. so i thought i would come home early rather than spend a day on motorways..the trip down the road to bournmoth was hellish.