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Nice parts of Essex?

mose_2
mose_2 Posts: 414 Forumite
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in House buying, renting & selling
Can anyone suggest some nice parts of essex to live no more than an hours drive from dagenham. we have looked at chelmsford but the houses all just seem a bit run down and tired looking to me, although the town centre is not bad. sorry should have said budget of 235k or under.
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  • reformedEffortMaker_2
    reformedEffortMaker_2 Posts: 392 Forumite
    Billericay, Shenfield and Wickford arent too bad. Why does it have to be within an hour of Dagenham?
  • mose_2
    mose_2 Posts: 414 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    hi, needs to be not to far from dagenham because we will still be working around the area. not to keen on wickford, dont mind shenfiled/billericay just still quiet expensive.
  • specsappeal
    specsappeal Posts: 593 Forumite
    clacton on sea and st osyth is where i live and it its nice!!
  • jerryl_2
    jerryl_2 Posts: 24 Forumite
    hi,
    it really depends what you are after(flat or house),an hour from dagenham really takes you down to shoeburyness,southend,wakering,rochford,hockley ect.
    If you like to be a bit in the country,look at great wakering(dry part of the uk)its true.
    you can still get a decent 3 bed place for 235.000 here at present.
  • Guy_Montag
    Guy_Montag Posts: 2,291 Forumite
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    :confused:Cambridgeshire?

    :p
    "Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
    Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
    "I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.
  • shykins
    shykins Posts: 2,766 Forumite
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    look at the villages around chelmsford or maldon,, if u go as far out as to the dengie its very nice (bunrham on crouch, althorne etc)

    hth
    When you know better you do better
  • nollag2006
    nollag2006 Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    What about trying the lovely town of Ware. It's just on the border of Herts, so is a bit less chavvy that most of Essex
  • noh
    noh Posts: 5,814 Forumite
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    nollag2006 wrote: »
    What about trying the lovely town of Ware. It's just on the border of Herts, so is a bit less chavvy that most of Essex

    http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1596
  • maka_2
    maka_2 Posts: 1,070 Forumite
    braintree the best place for you
    :beer: LOVE LIFE PROCEED & PROGRESS
  • mose_2
    mose_2 Posts: 414 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    It's the chav's we are trying to escape, we have a 6 month old girl and want a better life for her.
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