St. Helens, Merseyside

merlot123

pawsies wrote: »

Oi! Haha.

I didn't realise how big the Kingswood estate actually was until one Sunday afternoon and I decided to go show house snooping! I needed the Sat Nav just to get back onto the main road to get out of Hull.:D

The cafe Vanilla in Hull has the best sausages I've ever tasted, imo.

Merlot123

pawsies

merlot123 wrote: »

I didn't realise how big the Kingswood estate actually was until one Sunday afternoon and I decided to go show house snooping! I needed the Sat Nav just to get back onto the main road to get out of Hull.:D

The cafe Vanilla in Hull has the best sausages I've ever tasted, imo.

Merlot123

Yes Hull is surprisingly confusing around that area, I don't go further than Kingswood often for that reason!

I don't actually live in Hull but I do like the cheap shops

InsertWittyName

TeamLowe wrote: »

most of st Helens is deprived, but the areas mentioned above are nice as well as rainford. Newton le willows is I think technically st Helens and that's nice too, as long as you don't go for the roads named after trees or earlestown.

tbh I think people from st Helens will tell you it's nice but most other people won't and unless a new job is actually in st Helens I can't think of a good reason to move there, but then again my opinion is probably invalid being from wigan lol

I couldn't put it any better than this.

A_Couple_In_Love

Thanks for the advice.

Keep it coming .

johnnyl

merlot123 wrote: »

Op, where are you moving from? If its from somewhere like Hull, then St. Helens is an improvement, but only just.

hang on. We aint that bad :rotfl:

amus

For the love of god stay away from clock face!

Eccleston is quite nice, as is billinge and rainford as others have said.

To be fair I would definitely say an improvement on Blackpool.

artichoke

well like every northern town St H is run down but like all towns there are different parts that have different feels...

i agree with all the rest that Billinge, Rainhill, Eccleston etc are all the better areas but they are much more expensive....

presumably the original poster has a set budget to buy a house so probably the choice will be to either buy a small house in a posher area or a bigger house in a not so great area....

But it is not so clear cut in that some of the less desirable postcodes do have nice bits within them - bits on the edges, with fields, etc especially in the ex-mining areas, and the sense of community still exists...

Clock Face, Sutton Manor, Sutton, all have mixed housing, from terraces, estates to semi- detached old houses and new builds..

I think the OP needs to just look at what is available for their budget, and go and book a few weekends staying in various travelodges / premier inns and get out and explore the areas they can afford...

they need to list what is important to them - transport links, schools, shops, pubs or whatever else ....and look up what these are like in the areas they can afford..

art

mintymoneysaver

Rainhill, Prescot and Eccleston Park are all in that area, but nicer than St Helens!

ilovebargains99

I live about 10 miles from St Helens in a nearby town, and tbh, I think a weekend spent looking at houses and the town (this will take about half an hour!) would be very worthwhile.

As other posters have mentioned, it is rundown, and sadly lacking in employment opportunities. As previously mentioned, Newton-le-Willows is a nice area, and also Eccleston, but you do pay to live in Eccleston.

Would it be possible for you to live outside the immediate area? I also agree that it is an improvement on Blackpool (I grew up in Preston), although I can't comment on Stretford.

Good luck with your move.

Saint_Chris

Windle is also a nice area, also moss bank, but like said you do pay to live in nice areas. Yes in eccleston our water rates and pole tax are higher than other areas.


it's hard to say to someone stay away from certain areas, as people class sutton as a deprived area, yet my aunty lives there, on a private estate and it's lovely, she's lived there all her life, and wouldn't move anywhere else. She's never seen any trouble, or had trouble with neighbours, or been broken into, yet round the corner is the 4 acre council estate, which imo is a bit rough.
My nan lived in parr all her life, another area people may say avoid, and my aunty still lives in my nans house, the area has gone downhill but again my aunty wouldn't sell up and move she likes where she lives.