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Joseph75

Joseph75

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My wife's been offered a job in Tamworth, the kind of job it's hard to turn down. I know it's not that far north but it feels like a different world to me :(

Anyone know anything about that area? Suggestions for where to look for houses? We've registered with these http://www.bairstoweves.co.uk/forsaleoffice/tamworth/264/ as we bought our flat with them and they feel familiar, but any other advice will be gratefully received...

Also, are you still allowed on the East Dulwich forum if you don't actually live there anymore? ;)

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As a West Midlander I know the Tamworth area a little (my Father worked up there for a while).


Despite being officially in Staffs you'll find it much easier and quicker to get into Birmingham and Coventry than Leicester and there's much more to do in Brum these days than in the past so you're not totally in the boondocks - and the surrounding countryside is as attractive as anywhere else & with a good quota of pretty villages & pubs.

Jeremy

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MrBen Wrote:

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> Like, way to make the guy feel better Jezza.....


It's for his own good!! The best thing to do is find somewhere nicer within commuting distance. Also plenty of nice countryside and villages round there (I imagine) if that's your bag.

malumbu

malumbu

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Full of Brummie overspill and you have the odd mix of a slightly East Midlands accent with Brummie. Full of new housing estates - very cheap compared to here. A conference team who were in Division 2 at one point. Lots of speed traps and the A5 and M42 nearby. Excellent train links both locally and nationally and in some respect better connected than Brum. Large retail parks with KFCs McBollox etc and wacky warehouse Bernie inn places.


You cockney winkers will need to pronounce your constanants as well - it is B I R M I N G H A M not Birminum


Not particularly ethnically diverse but no doubt you will be told all about how dreadful romanies/Eastern Europeans are.


So with all my middle class tosser prejudices I once spent an afternoon campaigning against UCI's now dropped development plans for the Crystal Palace site. Oddly I found families going to the afternoon films perfectly polite and friendly.


Oh Julian Cope is from there so that can't be a bad thing

Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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Lovely countryside and driving distance to even lovelier in Shropshire - you can walk along the Devil's Dike and look down into the Welsh Marches (I think), the setting for the Malcolm Saville books. Got a feeling it may also get its water from the Welsh hills like Birmingham, so no limescale to deal with.
Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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Witchend,swimming in the reservoir, Welsh ponies, clouds coming down over the Long Mynd - we're lost! In the nick of time the stiperstones loom out of the mist, the Devil's Chair outlined on the ridge like the spine of a sleeping dragon. 'If it wasn't for you pesky kids', and lashings of ginger beer. Oh no, that's the other one.


Think I've inhaled too much Vick.

*Bob*

*Bob*

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I was a victim of mis-selling; promised an evening of regular bedroom activities, lured to Tamworth and then faced with impromptu demands for spanking and bondage - with no means of - or funds for - quick escape.


I'm not suggesting this kind of activity is particular to Tamworth of course.


No doubt it also goes on in Darley Dale, Droitwich, Measham, Grantham & Matlock.

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