[Closed] relocating to Rotherham

It's Sheffield's gooch.

Leeds.

I used to live in Rotherham. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. You would be better off living in Sheffield and commuting.

You poor Bugger... 😯

I'm from Rotherham. It's not nearly as bad as people say (except the centre). Wickersley, whiston, Bramley all nice. Happy to advise further. I live Sheffield now but that was a work/uni thing. If go back were it not for family being too close and my Mrs working in the city centre.

Where you off working? Royce's?

Do you mean Rovverum? go anywhere else its a hole!!

Budget? Grenoside, Burncross (DO NOT mistake for Burngreave!), Chapeltown and perhaps Ecclesfield are all nice enough (all areas of north Sheffield) and 30 mins drive or so from Rotherham.

I wouldn't live in Rotherham if the house was free for life with no bills but others really like it. Check Kimberworth out if you want to be closer to Rotherham but not in it.

EDIT - Note, Grenoside is right where Greno Woods / Wharncliffe Woods are (Steve Pete's early stopping ground) so some great riding on the doorstep.

Cheers

Danny B

We had a tennant in our local pub from Rotherham. Him and his missus stole the kitchen when they left. Nice people.

Ah misinformation, stereotypes and piss taking. As I say, for a very honest bit of detail get in touch.

I wouldn't want to live in Rotherham.......and I'm from Doncaster!

Live in Sheffield, it's leafy.

It would be SW Rotherham or nothing for me. Whiston area looks OK on the few times I've been through.

Other than that, I'd consider NW Sheffield and commute.

Ah misinformation, stereotypes and piss taking. As I say, for a very honest bit of detail key me know

Er, no - it's true...

swampi - what's the gig?

i work in a Rotherham postcode, but live on the west of Sheffield - the commute by bike is only 8 miles, and most of it's fairly easy going.

Rotherham's not completely awful, but i wouldn't live there when it's so easy to live in the nice bits of Sheffield.

I live in Rotherham (Dearne Valley).

Like most places it has some nice areas and some not so nice.

Wath-upon-Dearne / Swinton are ok and about 5 miles away from the town.

Chapeltown would be a good commuting base for working in Rotherham centre, a reasonable distance, some decent woods to divert on the way home and with the hills not too far away. The Commercial has a decent selection of beers.
Are you in some advance HS2 preparation group? 🙂

I have never been there so took the scientific approach by looking at 3 random street view images. I reckon it all looks quite rubbish apart from the one residential street I saw that had, instead of a kiddie play park, a bouldering boulder slapped in the middle of a green! I can't find the same street again but it was this:

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Wentworth & Thorpe Hesley look ok too. I worked in Rotherham for a couple of years

worked in Rotherham, jeesus it makes stoke on trent or bradford look like the cultural capitals of the unviverse. You poor, poor, bugger

South and west of town is nice, town centre and east end is run down and a bit mongy

Not a bad cycle commute from Sheffield. Would not live there.

budget to stay mortgage free is about 180 grand, its for her work, she will be working at the hospital, as for me, well am a house husband so have no need to live any where particular as have no job, I just don't want her to commute for more than 15 mins drive as I want more evening time for bike riding 🙂

Like andeh, I am also from Doncaster and also would not want to live in Rotherham. I live in Sheffield, it's ace.

Wickersley is probably the best for proximity and time to work for the Mrs. Schools are good in the vicinity BUT then you are further from Wharnecliffe. Though Rother Valley Country Park close.

cheers for the advice, pook will drop you an email this evening

I grew up in wickersley lovely place to live. I'll keep an eye out for your e-mail

Is there electricity in Rotherham yet?

There's a nice estate in treeton, or new builds in Laughton common near dinnington, I haven't been robbed yet, also some decent riding in canklow woods behind the hospital!

Add Eastwood to the list of areas in Rotherham to avoid. My wifes parents live there. What a turd hole.

Do not live in Rotherham, worked there for eight years as a secondary school teacher and having seen the future it's not looking good. I live in s6 area of Sheffield and commuted to Rotherham in twenty minutes or so, the hospital maybe half an hour from s6.
If you're bringing up young and want a reasonable start in life don't live there.
Pook is wrong, first time for everything, but the cleaners at school who where lovely said they never went to Rotherham town as it was horrible, they were born and bred millers.
Good luck.
Where you coming from?

well am from Leicester, moved to kettering at the start of the month as a temporary move until a job move came up for her

you're not from new york city are you?

Pook is wrong, first time for everything,

Er....what?!

I said Rotherham was nice except the town centre....

ygm anyhow pook, cheers

Nowt wrong with the place. Apart from the centre.

My wife works in Rotherham, we live on the west of Sheffield, the Peak on our doorstep and its only a 25minute commute for her.

Pook, be honest with the exception of the 'trendy 'village' of Wickerey it's where the pipe will be shoved when the world gets an enema. I grew up at the Brecks so about a mile from you, left I 83 and only go back to see relatives. It's depressing how bAd the place has become. Drop me an email and I'll happily pitch in with the very few good places, they are few but compared to Leicester it may seem like heaven!

I lived in kimberworth a few years back, as above I much preferred Sheffield but Rotherham was ok. But then I say that as I have seen the true horrors of Croydon and Luton which don't compare.

Don't let them put you off. If you survived Leicester you'll be fine.

Mind you, you'd still be better off commuting in if you can

Taught in Kimberworth - what a shit hole

Went to Planet X that way a few months back and took the scenic(?) route back to the motorway.
It reminded me of a cross between 28days later and Dog soldiers, I'm certainly not in a rush to revisit the place,and only live the otherside of the pennines.

I worked for rotherham council drainage section a few years back. I had lots of site visits all over rov. There are some nice bits but most of it is dead or dieing. It really has nothing going for it, which is sad as this basically because it's so close to sheffield. And i'm saying this as someone who grew up in one of the roughest parts of Leicester.

There are so many nice places within a 40 minute drive of rotherham, I would live somewhere else.

I worked there for well over a decade between the steel works and sewage place where they literally pile up human waste for fun.. It's proper grim.
The commute from west sheffield is a total pain if working normal office hours. Some nice villages on the edge of the Pennines to the north which is where I'd look, countryside and a speedy commute in. Out to the east it's good for roadies as it can often be dry when the peaks are wet. But then I'd still prefer the drizzle in the peak.

Mind you sheffield has seen better days, the town centre is a disgrace.

You might like to consider Chesterfield. Excellent rail commute to Rotherham (or Sheffield), and cheaper than Sheffield. If you are still considering Rotherham after the helpful descriptions above, have a look at the film "4 lions" first. I lived in Tinsley for a while and the film has very accurate backdrop of that area twixt sheffield/M1 jn34/Rotherham.

Sorry S6 (Hillsbrough) is not 25mins from Rotherham Hospital, its more like 40 mins to 1hr at rush hour.