Tip for moving to a new locality, estate or development

Malmo

If you are thinking of moving, in the process of moving or have moved already to a new estate, development, locality or even town and are signed up to Facebook, it is worth checking to see if there is a community group page specifically for your new location. We have discovered one for our locality and it is very active and an interesting browse. The local parish representatives are also members of the group, although the group was set up by an ordinary resident.

Residents often use it to get recommendations from other residents for local services and trades, civic, schooling & policing matters, pressing concerns & just general neighbourly support. I've seen posts from prospective movers who want to know more about the area from those that actually live there. There are robust posting guidelines that help to lightly regulate content, such as business ads limited to 1 per week, per business and obscuring of car registration plates if posting photos or videos of bad or offending driving (there is plenty of that at a particular road junction).

Always worth a search on Facebook, if only just for the amusing comments.