March,Cambridgeshire whats it like?

scrummy_mummy_2

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Getting anywhere on the train from March is a nightmare......you will need a car.
By the way...Guyhirn is nice...there are some really lovely 5 beds for sale just next to Play Today I have been admiring each time I visit home (sister and mum live in Wisbech St Mary)...
You could move to Castor or some of the other villages outside of Peterborough...if you win the lottery!

I grew up in Warboys and Ramsey and would recommend Ramsey of all the Fenland Villages. The Abbey College is a good (and beautiful!!) school and it's a nice town.
Check out the Abbey website...http://abbeycollege.cambs.sch.uk/
I nearly used the picture of the school for my avatar actually!!
Nowhere in the fens has much nightlife. I used to have to go to Peterborough to go to the clubs. I found Cambridge a bit poncey!
I'm in my 40's now (GOD!!) and would still love to go 'home'
Wouldn't choose to live in March though.

CB1979_2

my bro lives in March, massive house for not a lot money (well 3 years ago!)

he likes it very much, but then he's 35 and got a young family so doesn't really do the "going out" thing.

he's originally from Surrey, then moved upto Southport then back down to March, and I think he prefers it there, but the locals are a bit backward/inbred (well isn't Cambridgeshire the incest capital of Britain!!??)

when my brother's wife was expecting their kid (note not his sister! lol) she was surprised to see on the form "is the father a blood relative!! :eek:

shelly

scrummy_mummy wrote: »

By the way...Guyhirn is nice...there are some really lovely 5 beds for sale just next to Play Today I have been admiring each time I visit home

I know exactly where you are talking about! Hubby and I looked round the one on the end that you can see from the junction near Play Today. Was way out of our budget but had to look round it anyway Its a stunning house. I heard they recently knocked £50K off it. I think its now up for £350K.

scrummy_mummy_2

They've got no land though. Big house...tiddly plot...it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a big house with about an acre!!! I don't want more...we found a house with 2 acres but that's too much...lots of the bigger houses are equestrian use and I'm allergic to horses!
Those places have been for sale for about 18 months/2 years now....bet they'll come down more soon too!

shelly

scrummy_mummy wrote: »

They've got no land though. Big house...tiddly plot...it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a big house with about an acre!!! I don't want more...we found a house with 2 acres but that's too much...lots of the bigger houses are equestrian use and I'm allergic to horses!
Those places have been for sale for about 18 months/2 years now....bet they'll come down more soon too!

The one we looked round.....the garden alone was 1/2 an acre. I'd say the whole plot is a little over an acre.

wisbech_lad

manhattan wrote: »

Ive been to Guyhurn many a time, Wisbech Thats all im saying as i dont want to upset the locals lol.

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OI! I resemble that remark!

hethmar

Oh dear, March and the Fens - Im sorry, but what a depressing/depressed area - ask Tony Martin what he thinks of it.

I suppose you could always get a job in the high security prison, they always need people.

Im sorry but Id not move to that area if you paid me to.

Ely is a nice area but obviously a lot more expensive.

Anglo_Saxon

CB1979 ,

Your comments regarding the people of Cambridgeshire and March constitute the most assinine and laughably ignorant thinking that I've ever witnessed in my entire life .

This is home to arguably the world's most prestigious and emulated university - Cambridge being a world heritage site , and Microsoft's only non-US scientific presence . Bill Gates cited the importance of Cambridge when he arrived . The Cambridge Science Park is known as ' Silicon Fen ' and is pre-eminent in Europe .

This county is home to two spectacular cathedrals ( one contains the tomb of Catherine Of Aragon ) and is Oliver Cromwell and Hereward The Wake territory .

March and Fenland has become ' Little Essex ' . Sanctuary for the mass influx of Essex refugees .

I should expect such ignorance from someone that says ' Hubby ' and ' blower ' for telephone and purchases a 32 " refurbished LCD TV for £200 . Mine's 47" dearie and was purchased brand new .

If what you say about March is true , Why is your brother here ? I wouldn't be . Perhaps you need a better class of brother .

Anglo_Saxon

' Loads of new developments ' in Ely ? That's a plus ?

Why does everyone on here speak like a Pleb ?

What is desirable about a new development ? Oh I understand now , chipboard floors , tiny rooms , no storage , cheap windows , postage stamp gardens and a garages you can't open your car doors in .

HIiarious . Utterly hilarious .

Having said that , Ely is lovely . Shame they charge admittance to the cathedral . Peterborough doesn't .

barnaby-bear

mose wrote: »

no jobs sorted at the mo just thinking about it at the moment, i would be worried there is not much to do for when the baby gets older.

.... my neck of the woods.... there is stuff for the kids to do... mainly drugs to be honest... unless you are into cabbage packing the work prospects around march /peterborough pretty depressing.... to be honest I'd have a look at Ely or East towards Suffolk - soham, Newmarket or even Bury St. Edmunds way. Cambridge is expensive