[Closed] Slough named as the 'best place' to work and live

It's a ploy to keep people there!

“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough”
Even the name is off-putting!
I can always tell when I’m passing the place on the M4, even in the dark, with my eyes closed...
(As a passenger, of course...).

Thriving paper industry

I suppose if you look at it objectively

London/South East wages, combined with Slough house prices means disposable incomes.

Sandwiched between the Chilterns and Windsor Great Park there's plenty of outdoorsy stuff.

Loads of companies/jobs locally and within an easy commute.

On the M4 and trains to Reading and London (i.e. every mainline), 15 minutes to Heathrow.

I can always tell when I’m passing the place on the M4, even in the dark, with my eyes closed...
(As a passenger, of course...).

Why does that treatment plant smell so bad, it's not even like it's an occasional thing, every day I commute past it I turn the fan off in the car!

Slough is in a part of the country which offers "pleasant environments"

Simple heuristic, if is starts with an S, it's probably horrid

But it rhymes with trough! 😯

CharlieMungus - Member
Simple heuristic, if is starts with an S, it's probably horrid

Is heuristic the right word (and I can't believe I'm sticking up for Slough)

Scaffell, Staithes and Strathpeffer?

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Sluff must've changed in the 10-15 years since I last had the misfortune to visit with any sort of regularity.

Is heuristic the right word (and I can't believe I'm sticking up for Slough)

Scaffell, Staithes and Strathpeffer?

Used to work on the local paper. I'm not sure they were asking the right questions. 🙂

If Britwell is now a pleasant environment, it must've changed a tad.

Sluff must've changed in the 10-15 years since I last had the misfortune to visit with any sort of regularity.

It's probably not, I make the same special effort to avoid it as I do syphilis.

Looks pretty, wouldn't want to.live somewhere like that

WAAAAATTTTTTTT!!!!!!!

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named by people from from Mogadishu , Somalia , Nigeria , Yeman , Iran and IrAQ.

Slough is what Scafell would look like if you let town planners loose on it

Slough is just one of thiose names that inspires. . . . Nothing.

Bit like Grimsby.

Slough is just one of thiose names that inspires. . . . Nothing.

Bit like Grimsby.

See also: Garstang - might be loverly, sounds like a concentration camp.

I had a two day work conference thing in a hotel on the edge of Slough. I had lost the will to live before we had even got there; 8am, tiny windy country road, nose to tail traffic in both directions for miles. And the beer was expensive.

Excellent grammar school

All they have to do is change the name to Slough-upon-Thames. I mean its worked for Staines-upon-Thames hasn't it?

As ever it depends on the metric you use. This is why all of these best places to live lists are rubbish, y po your list of important items are not the same as the writers and even if they are they are likely to be weighted differently.

Once had a wait and return to Mars in Slough, the office seemed to be full of supermodels and as they messed up and I was there for ages got given a huge bag of chocolate. Quite liked Slough that day and the railway station is stunning.

All the places that are [i]actually[/i] the best places to live put a lot of effort into making sure they don't appear in any 'best places to live' lists, so as to avoid being colonised by the type of ****s who base where they live on best place to live lists

I can't possibly comment as I live in Newport, only still here due to the hills.

This is like the 'What's the best MTBing place to live?' threads where Bristol always gets very popular. It's simply somewhere with easy access to other better places.

@ Binners

Pretty sure that Ramsbottom has started to appear on a few lists. More local in focus, but it will spread. The influx is imminent. You can't say that you weren't warned.. 😉

It's the reason I moved out of Chorlton 😉

They'll all be heading for Slough, Swindon and Stoke now surely?