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Best and Worst places to live in Norfolk???

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  • RedfordML
    RedfordML Posts: 904 Forumite
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    edited 16 January 2011 at 7:22PM
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    Just seen this thread!!

    Like OP we are looking at moving to Norfolk, and we like the look of Wymondham. South of the city, good schools, closer enough to Norwich (train station)...

    Anyone got any other areas in and around Wymondham that they can recc?? (Although OH likes the North side - more Value for money, is this true??)

    Thanks RML
  • Sublime_2
    Sublime_2 Posts: 15,741 Forumite
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    North East has lovely places. A lovely county. :D
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 24,677 Forumite
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    Sublime wrote: »
    North East has lovely places. A lovely county. :D

    Agreed - we go to Sheringham a lot. That particular town is not that great, but there's wonderful countryside around.

    Personally, if I could persuade my wife, I'd retire to Blakeney tomorrow. Nearly bought a house there a while back.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Sublime_2
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    Salthouse, Blakeney, and Cley are lovely, as is Little Walsingham, although more Northerly. :)
  • mufi
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    Sublime wrote: »
    Salthouse, Blakeney, and Cley are lovely, as is Little Walsingham, although more Northerly. :)

    And, now that the entire contents of Chelsea have decided to have their second homes there, horrendously expensive.
  • WhiteHorse
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    East Anglia is nice, although the rural areas can be quite isolated - long drives for hospitals, schools, major shopping and so on. Ipswich should be avoided.
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  • WhiteHorse
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    mufi wrote: »
    And, now that the entire contents of Chelsea have decided to have their second homes there, horrendously expensive.
    Very true.

    Places like Sheringham were very cheap, but that stopped after a property article in the Daily Mail which left local estate agents besieged by yuppies.
    "Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracy
    seeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"
    Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.
  • Sublime_2
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    mufi wrote: »
    And, now that the entire contents of Chelsea have decided to have their second homes there, horrendously expensive.

    True. Nice to visit though.
  • GDB2222
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    Sheringham Cromer - that end of the North Coast of Norfolk - are really not that expensive
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • mufi
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    RedfordML wrote: »
    Like OP we are looking at moving to Norfolk, and we like the look of Wymondham. South of the city, good schools, closer enough to Norwich (train station)...

    Anyone got any other areas in and around Wymondham that they can recc?? (Although OH likes the North side - more Value for money, is this true??)

    Thanks RML

    Wymondham has no problems that I'm aware of, except a large amount of house building in the last 30 years (if you call that a problem).

    Much of the north side, particularly the Broads villages, are more expensive than the south side; also much in demand, and decent properties still sell very quickly. As previously mentioned in this thread, Diss is worth a look - railway station there. The road from the south side into Norwich during rush hour is horrendous, ever since some plonker bunged a bus lane down the main route into the city, halving an already busy road's capacity.

    Oh, and seem to recall that Hethersett has good schools.
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