Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

I've not really ever been there.....

PasturesNew

Best way to choose is to put each place into Rightmove in turn. Select the type of place you want to live in .... if you can afford a house somewhere, you don't want to be there. If you're £20-50k short of being able to afford the cheapest, that's where you want to be.

LydiaJ

Malcolm. wrote: »

Hello nice people/ friends,

As many of you noticed I haven't been around for a while. I'm logging to let you know I'm OK.

THANK YOU for all the kind messages, they mean A LOT to me. It's good to know that I've made friends and my time on MSE hasn't been wasted.

I may be relocating to the Bristol area soon, which will be an upheaval for the family. If anyone knows of nice areas of Bristol, preferably near to the airport, I'm all ears?

Catching up on how you are, reading the nice people thread, will take me some time.

I hope everyone is well!

x

Malcolm. wrote: »

I'll be forced to live in a tent.

What are the brentry, northille and/or stoke areas like?

The proper airport for Bristol is Lulsgate - which is indeed in a field in the middle of nowhere. However, if you are looking at Brentry, Stoke and Northville, then I wonder if you are hoping to be near Filton airport. I don't know much about what goes on there, except that it's where the UK bit of Airbus is based.

I'm afraid those aren't the parts of Bristol I know best. There are nice bits of Filton & Southmead, and Stoke Bishop is pleasant too. Horfield is a bit grittier and less suburban - if you end up going further in towards the centre you'd be better off in Westbury on Trym if you can afford it. Bradley Stoke is full of 1980s/90s housing, IIRC - I know in the 90s crash it had problems with NE as lots of people had overextended to buy new builds during the boom. It was referred to as "Sadly Broke". I don't know what it's like now.

If, on the other hand, you do actually want to be near Bristol International Airport at Lulsgate, then you need to decide whether you want to live in Bristol itself (in which case try Ashton or Bishopsworth, and definitely avoid Knowle and Bedminster). You'll still be quite a long way from the airport, though. Alternatively, go for one of the towns/villages along the A370 - Flax Bourton if you fancy somewhere tiny, Backwell for somewhere a little larger, Nailsea if you want a small town rather than a village, or Clevedon if you can cope with being a bit further from the airport but want better road links. All those are pleasant places to live if you don't mind being a little way out from the urban facilities of Bristol itself.

Tell us more about what constitutes a "nice area" in your opinion, and how close you want to be to which airport.

Disclaimer - I haven't lived in Bristol itself since the late 80s, although my parents are still there so I visit it frequently. I lived not that far from the International Airport for a few years in the early 00s. I don't live there any more, so my information may be somewhat out of date, and since I never bought a house anywhere near Bristol, I'm clueless about how the areas compare price-wise.

PS It's good to hear from you again Malcolm. Hang around if you can.

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

On a totally different subject, can I ask a question of all you scientists hereabouts?

Do any of you ever watch MythBusters?

Just caught this, never seen that show before but from the excerpt I wouldn't even give it a second look if I flicked it on. I try to watch popular science shows to get an idea of how much knowledge is out there when I do outreach but the knowledge of the general public (i mean, 10 people on the street) is pretty low.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not much information is remembered/forthcoming by the old... but I've not heard the word uttered. It's all pretty much, so far, a "non event" - the sum of what us/the family have been told by the old is about 12 words. "I have been diagnosed with 'c' of the ... and it's advanced and has probably spread to ... and ...." that's all I have to go on. No idea if he was told/forgot, told/wasn't listening, wasn't told.

You need to ring the doctor doing the test and you need to find out.
what it is, where it is and why he doesn't think your oldie won't get surgery. If the tumour is small, then that is the best option but I fear he may be taking the easy way out when dealing with an older person. ask them to explain it to you until you/someone else understands.

Where is your sister?

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Lir: good luck with the students. the woman sounds exceptionally venomous, must be someone you can report her to?

Hope it turns out into a wonderful adventure and not a terrible chore as expected.

lostinrates

Malcolm. wrote: »

Hello nice people/ friends,

As many of you noticed I haven't been around for a while. I'm logging to let you know I'm OK.

THANK YOU for all the kind messages, they mean A LOT to me. It's good to know that I've made friends and my time on MSE hasn't been wasted.

I may be relocating to the Bristol area soon, which will be an upheaval for the family. If anyone knows of nice areas of Bristol, preferably near to the airport, I'm all ears?

Catching up on how you are, reading the nice people thread, will take me some time.

I hope everyone is well!

x

Ha! Wanna come over for lunch if you do move here?

I know the airport side of Bristol and the areas south of there quite well...village, city or rural? Commute time/length? (its less congested of course if you don't move into the City, I could get from wilts/dorset/somerset border to the airport n 45 mins) Good value or chichi area?

I'm so very glad to know your are ok. You've been very missed and I now I'm not the only one to have thought of you a lot.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Lir I cannot believe you have 2 students arriving tomo that you hadn't booked in........handy it was you as they will be fine and have a great time but, really....that type of appalling mis-management is inexcusable. You could shop her up afterwards maybe?...It could happen again and the outcome not be so good for the poor students.
Hopefully, they will love dogs and other animals.

Such faith in me! They'll be treated kindly and fed well, certainly. At this rate they might get a bit of dog hair on them. I haven't had time to take limescale remover to the taps, and our bathroom is not the nicest, but its clean (apart from limescale).

They have a box of tissues and a bunch of daffs and a bottle of water and glass in their rooms, and lovely white guest towels I consider ''too good'' for us and feel a bit jealous of and the bed made up is 700 thread count sheets.....about that sort of thing they can't complain. The carpets are threadbare (but clean though they look iffy) and the decor is of course what it is. Can't do anything about that.

Having a coffee now before attacking down stairs.

I also have a dog in season. :eek: which doesn't make life easier!

Davesnave

Looking at the locations he suggested, I'm sure Malcolm meant Filton airfield, not Lulsgate.

With Bristol, it depends a lot on whether you'll want schooling, and what kind. There used to be some seriously duff state schools, but I dare say there have been improvements since my knowledge was current. There are nice enclaves in North Bristol and the surrounds, if you also manage to avoid the motorway noise and major thoroughfares. I say 'enclaves' because many areas like, for example, Frenchay, contain a huge variety of property, from the affordable to the distinctly posh.

Of course I'm not ruling out that Malcolm may be posh, but if he's MSE, he'll want value!

Wheezy_2

Our Westie had his 6-month birthday party last Saturday. After he got a denta-stick and some Pedigree chewies, he agreed to pose for the camera.

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

Our Westie had his 6-month birthday party last Saturday. After he got a denta-stick and some Pedigree chewies, he agreed to pose for the camera.

aww cute!
You've set a precedent now, birthday parties every six months.... or he'll poo in your best shoes.

GDB2222

Are you washing him on too hot a cycle? I think you've bleached him.