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Is Wokingham a nice place to live?

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  • Gordon_Hose
    Gordon_Hose Posts: 6,259 Forumite
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    I live in Kent, but my office is based in Bracknell. I've lived in Wokingham and Bracknell. Wokingham is nicer, but there's nothing wrong with Bracknell. Lots of large companies for jobs etc, and just as easy to get to the M4 and M3. Bracknell is cheaper than Wokingham house price wise.

    Depends what you can afford really.
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,702 Forumite
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    I live near Wokingham. If you are commuting one of the cons is the train service to London which is slow with lots of stops and only two trains per hour for most of the day. It is around an hour to Waterloo compared to under 30 minutes Reading to Paddington with a more frequent service.
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,349 Forumite
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    I knew someone from there who pronounced it in 2 syllables, which is quite a trick. You should practice.
  • Towser
    Towser Posts: 1,303 Forumite
    So far so good. It seems ok
  • slowpoke_rodriguez
    slowpoke_rodriguez Posts: 307 Forumite
    edited 11 December 2015 at 12:37AM
    axomoxia wrote: »
    House prices are very expensive, but if you are coming from London, the're remarkably cheap.
    If you're coming from London you wouldn't go there!
    It's more the sort of place you'd go to from elsewhere.
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