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Advice on where to live in Essex?????

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OldBlueLady said:
Wouldn't recommend Benfleet at all at the moment, it's becoming a kind of ex-East end side of London takeover, and there's massive road improvements planned which are going to bring the whole area to a standstill and there are building plans in addition to every plot of any size being immediately covered with blocks of flats. If we could afford to, we'd be moving out.
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I live in Benfleet (near the train station carpark) and it is great.

Pubs, Restaurants, The Barge Gladys, and a 2 minute walk to the station.
 
Cricko said:
That was my first school I was born in Leigh but moved to The Dale at a very young age...I used to love the Glen etc before the builders came in...Now in Hadleigh which is definitely an up and coming area with the Masa Indian Restaurant ..The new Cafe Noir , but still kids hang around the local church at night ...I feel quite sorry for them actually...they have no Youth centres or cheap places to go these days ..the nearest cinema is about 15 miles away.
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I lived in Hadleigh from the age of 13 for about 10 years, we used to have a youth club at Hadleigh Methodist Church but other than that used to walk about most evenings, sharing a bag of chips between a group of us bought from Codswallop (I know it's changed names now!), or going up to John Burrows and doing a bit of canoodling!;) There never was much to do, but it is a nice area.
 
GlasgowSUFC said:
Gartcosh, so we're actually out of Glasgow City boundary, (just, we're North Lanarkshire & Council Tax is about 70% of what it would be if the house was 1/4m down the road). Baillieston & Swinton are now reasonably OK, it's Easterhouse & Garthamlock that are the mankier parts of our local area, for some reason Persimmon have bought a huge piece of land plus a large part of Garthamlock & are trying to build an estate of detached 3/4/5 bedroom houses on it (I guess they're gambling on the regeneration the Glasgow Fort shopping complex is having on everything).

Used to also live next to Baillieston in Bargeddie (our doctors/nearest shops were in Baillieston).
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I know the place. Mind you I'm normally racing by on the M73 on the way to Falkirk.

Easterhouse has always been a bit suspect thats for sure. My old man used to play cricket for Garrowhill near there.

Went to that Glasgow Fort a few years ago when it first opened. Just seemed like any other out of town shopping place that springs up everywhere these days. mind you the missus loved it and spent a fortune in mammas and pappas there.
 
The Flying Scotsman said:
I know the place. Mind you I'm normally racing by on the M73 on the way to Falkirk.

Easterhouse has always been a bit suspect thats for sure. My old man used to play cricket for Garrowhill near there.

Went to that Glasgow Fort a few years ago when it first opened. Just seemed like any other out of town shopping place that springs up everywhere these days. mind you the missus loved it and spent a fortune in mammas and pappas there.
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Well, if you need a cup of tea as a quick refresher next time your on the M73 let me know!

Yes, I know what you mean, although each time I see The Fort now I picture a sparkly new football stadium attached to one end of it (just think one of the artists impressions of the new ground's shopping centre match how The Fort looks in reality!) Think we were in Mammas & Papas every weekend (at least once) from summer 2006 until last Xmas!
 
canveyshrimper said:
Nothing wrong with Thundersley, I grew up there when it was a village, and it was great place to live.

*awaits usual howls of derision about being an old fart* :cricko:
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I live in Thundersley and have done all my life, nice little village. I havent really got a bad thing to say about it and as far as I know prices are reasonable.
 
Used to take me about 20 mins along A13 from Leigh to get to RH.
Would rather go A127 now than along A13, too stop start (although when I've been driving down from my parents I go through Rayliegh & Eastwood & out onto A127 at Kent Elms)
 
To all the people who have lived in Essex your whole lives - do you not feel that you've missed out on experiencing other places in the world, or do you genuinely love this place?
 
Bluetonic said:
To all the people who have lived in Essex your whole lives - do you not feel that you've missed out on experiencing other places in the world, or do you genuinely love this place?
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I have lived in Essex all my life bar 6 months living in Norwich, I have also visited most other parts of England and much of Wales, Dublin, Jersey and Guernsey, although never across the border to Scotland. I love visiting my husband's family in the Yorkshire Dales, and other relatives in Suffolk and East Sussex, I enjoyed my time in Norwich and have spent many numerous happy weekends with friends in Bournemouth, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Peterborough.

However, I always get a huge satisfaction from seeing the "Essex" sign on whichever road we return home on...the thought that I will be back in my own home, in my own bed, or drinking tea made exactly how I like it in the knowledge that my own family (present and past) are within half an hour's drive. Don't think it makes me insular or narrow minded, I'm just not an adventurous spirit, never have been and don't think I ever will be. That's not to say I don't enjoy holidays, but I'm usually very glad to be home at the end.
 
Bluetonic said:
To all the people who have lived in Essex your whole lives - do you not feel that you've missed out on experiencing other places in the world, or do you genuinely love this place?
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I've lived in Edinburgh, London, now Kent and I love Essex.
 
I've never lived in Essex. Romford/Hackney/Stoke Newington/Aylesbury/South & North MK.

I'd like to move Southend way at some point, but not before I've lived abroad for a few years and made my fortune (Dubai me thinks in the future).
 
I Have lived in Suffolk Bognor Regis and Scotland but for me Home is always going to be Essex

I am proud to tell folk up here that i come from Southend in Essex.... but what fu*cks me off is when folk up here say...."Southend? That is in London isn’t it" I say “know it is in Essex” and they say...."yes but Essex is part of London though isn’t it"
 
Bluetonic said:
I'm not having a go at anyone, I just really don't like this place - interested to see what people like about it.
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With me I think it's partly a heritage thing, both parents Southend born and bred, my father's parents also, and their parents before them. Many of the family are buried in Holy Trinity, Southchurch, and my grandfather's brother's name is on the WW1 role of honour memorial in Priory Park. I was born at home within sound of Roots Hall in Wenham Drive, and the town has always been part of my blood. I'm proud to be an Essex girl (in the true sense) and love the area I live in.
 
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