[Closed] Talk to me about life in and around Bristol.

What's the budget and what sort of house are you after?

thanks for the feedback on easton...!

clubber - if thats for me, well, 3 bed (min 2 double), reasonably central, furnished, £750/m (and somewhere where my bike won't get nicked!)

for people with very little money, how is easton to live in?

we think we've found a house we can afford there.

Easton in the daytime is ace. Loads of ethnic foods (it's a very multicultural area), Friendly people, Toveys seafood, a brilliant vibe. It's quite different at night. It doesn't have the malevolent feel that St Pauls can but it's certainly got an edge. I wouldn't want my kids growing up there, for a small area with little money there's quite a few young men with very expensive cars.

This is all well and good, nice houses, good restaurant, top biking blah blah blah, but what people seem to have forgotten is that there's a blimmin' mini train in Ashton Court! yes, MINI-TRAIN!!!!

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If that doesn't seal it then I don't know what's wrong with you.

for people with very little money, how is easton to live in?

The people I know who live in Easton seem to love it. The part to the west of Easton Way should be avoided, as probably are the areas very close to Stapleton Road. Areas which seem popular with friends and acquantancies include the Greenbank area near the cemetry, the roads off Chelsea Road, and the bits towards Whitehall. St George is another option in the east which is popular with people looking for better value.

place we're looking at is on York Road BS56BJ

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=BS5%206BJ

h_m - you could just about get a place in Bedminster/Totterdown as has been discussed above:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?searchType=RENT&locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E277&insId=1&radius=0.0&displayPropertyType=houses&minBedrooms=3&maxBedrooms=&minPrice=500&maxPrice=800&maxDaysSinceAdded=&retirement=&sortByPriceDescending=&_includeLetAgreed=on&primaryDisplayPropertyType=&secondaryDisplayPropertyType=&oldDisplayPropertyType=&oldPrimaryDisplayPropertyType=&letType=&letFurnishType=&houseFlatShare=false

The Windmill Hill one at £775 looks ok and it's quite a nice area IMO.

Part furnished though

Stapleton?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-14908773.html
Look at the size of the garden!

Any IT employers in / commutable from Brizzle?

Went to uni there and it's pretty much the only city I fancy living in, other than the big bad smoke where I am now

I live in greenbank and love it! Been in bristol nearly 10 years now and lived in fishponds, knowle and filton.

Really like the vibe of easton/greenbank. St marks road is really nice for restuarants, thali cafe, morrocan and one of the best vegetarian resturants in the uk.

Got to say i love bristol

place we're looking at is on York Road BS56BJ

That's in quite a nice part of Easton well away from the troublespots.

clubber and wrecker - thanks ever so much! have contacted the one clubber suggested, and will ask my colleague about the location of the other - looks fantastic too!

philby - reassuring to know, thanks!

You're welcome hungry monkey. Good luck.

no worries. have now noticed that the one I suggested may be a bit close to the railway line.

mrblond - what kind of IT?

Oracle?

I prefer South Bristol to North (of the river).
And Clifton is pricy and not all it's cracked up to be (lots of students & wannabee tofs as per Bath).
The trails at Ashton Court & LEigh woods are all weather trails, there's a massive biking scene in the Bristol, Park street was closed of recently for the Red Bull hill climbs.
As for places to live :
Depends on whether you like space and a garage.
if so :
Knowle, Whitchurch, Stockwood
If you don't care but like being closer in to the centre then:
Windmill Hill , Southville, Totterdown,

I live in Knowle and the area is a pretty good all round balance of space and can get into the city on foot, house prices not too bad etc.

Avoid: Hartcliffe, Knowle West, some bits of Bedminster as well, All of North Bristol (though the sprwaling housing estates of Bradley Stoke are dead close motorwats and to Wales Cwmn Carn FoD and Afan).

am sure yu meant threw up on Mendip

That also... although mainly in the lowlands, around Coxley. 😳

Avoid:All of North Bristol

It's nice around Kingswood and Wooton_u_Edge, there's some good biking round those parts.
The Quontox is the best the area has to offer (the best in the South of England everything considered)

@clubber,

I'm a SQL server / C# dev team manager doing in-house financial systems.

Previous searches on j*bserve etc for Bristol itself have always turned up nowt (and I'm not about to look while at work) but there's maybe something commutable I haven't thought of.

All extremely hypothetical at the mo!

If only there were some financial companies working in Bristol .... oh wait a minute!... 😉

😉

as he said, you should be well catered for in Bristol. ime once you're in IT management you need to try directly or look at the more targeted recruitment companies.

Tell me more about Bishopston, looking to buy there with the wife, I'm pretty sold on it, her not so much.
Kids are in the imminent future probably, so schools etc important. I commute into the centre, she's a consultant so could end up posted anywhere.

MrBlond, lots of financial services companies in Brizzle, I work for one and we have a fair few IT people in Bristol.

Hey, it was nearly 20 years ago I last lived there and I was a biologist at the time 😉

Thanks

Bradley Stoke is curiously popular given it is bleak, miserable and was the biggest housing estate in Europe at one time - not a good thing. If you like Tesco Bradley Stoke is great - one huge one that owns the whole shopping centre and even the local corner shop is... a Tesco mini. Yate town is now owned by Tescos too. This area of the UK seems a stronghold for them 🙁

Surprised someone recommended Greenbank though. Its popular with people short of money, which is harmless but a bit dispiriting seeing there are so many all in the same position (lots of my collegues on low pay used to live there - as one said "so many of us from this company live there because we are poor". I used to visit a friend there and she used to worry about the drug dealers trading openly in her local streets and had her car number plates nicked for criminal use and worried about vandalism a lot of the time. It was good for prostitutes though as I used to pass loads of them looking thin and ill hanging around on the large road, border of Greenbank and Eastville of an evening. That was 3 or 4 years back, so they may have a new location by now. I hated driving past them, it was sad and pitiful to see them as most of them looked ill and cold and you want people to have better lives than that.

Lots of nice bits of Bristol though and also nice dormitory towns on the outskirts. Renting is expensive though.

[url= http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Mountain-bikers-stalked-Bristol-home-thieves/story-15722854-detail/story.html ]There's A LOT of it about[/url]

How do these thieving scrotes follow their victims I wonder - by bike? by car?

Mr Terry's £5,000 Ibis Mojo HD and Miss Hawke's £850 Trek 6300

Both, I think. Given the level of top-endbike theft at the moment, it has to be a co-ordinated group of people. My theory is two-part:

1. Some of the thieves ride bikes and follow unsuspecting riders home

and

2. The registration numbers of visitors driving their bikes to AC are noted and someone somewhere with access to a database can provide addresses for the car owners.

It's a big problem that is not just confined to garages/sheds. These people are willing to break into occupied houses. At some point, things are going to escalate beyond theft/burglary.

The story doing the rounds is that kids on bikes are being paid to follow riders home and then report the addresses...

One problem with bringing young children up in Bristol(if you have young kids that is) could be the accent they may develop which may mark you as a Meader or a Knowle Wester

I struggle with long sentences, but Don should move to Bristol as it's near me.

I must say I don't like Bristol that much. Parts are ok, plenty of middle classness which has its advantages, but it's a bit rougher than I'd like over all and the town centre's pretty rubbish really. Lots of interesting little corners here and there though, which are great to wander about and find.

I dunno what people are talking about when they say 'nice countryside' either. There are a couple of overcrowded muddy local riding spots then naff all, afaik. Cardiff's much better 🙂

Ashton court is no longer muddy though its now a gravel path with no character for those who dont like washing bikes

Edric 64 - Member
One problem with bringing young children up in Bristol(if you have young kids that is) could be the accent they may develop which may mark you as a Meader or a Knowle Wester

Not really. I find beating them lots if they start to show a local accent sorts it out soon enough.

molgrips - Member
I dunno what people are talking about when they say 'nice countryside' either. There are a couple of overcrowded muddy local riding spots then naff all, [b]afaik[/b]. Cardiff's much better

Ignorance isn't a virtue you know 😀

I've never heard anyone talk about Bristol riding other than a few crappy mud spots. I'd be happy to be enlightened though 🙂

On the subject of bike crime, without wanting to minimise the serious problems that we're currently having, we've got a very high concentration of nice bikes, plus a tight-knit riding community that tends to look out for each other.

What this means in practice is that bike thefts are widely publicised, as opposed to somewhere like London where the theft rate is higher, but you don't hear about it as much. I think the theft rate is actually dropping overall and we're now something like fifth or sixth worst in the country as opposed to third a few years back.

molgrips - Member
I've never heard anyone talk about Bristol riding other than a few crappy mud spots. I'd be happy to be enlightened though

Shhh. It's 'need to know' 😉

The map shows a distinct lack of woodland within riding distance. I'm not talking about a short drive away btw, I'm talking riding from home.

It's close enough to easily ride all of the welsh stuff without having to actually live in wales. The bridge toll is a small price when you look at it that way 😀

Wrecker + 1 🙂

But there's loads of riding near/in/around Bristol - all accessed by bike, no car needed. We just like to keep it quiet...

If you throw in the unofficial stuff I reckon there's comfortably 4-5 hours riding around Bristol, from just the other side of the bridge. Riding the official trails alone will take most people a couple of hours. 15 minutes of schlepping along the Flax Bourton greenway cycle path will take you out to some interesting combes.

Yes it's muddy in the winter but there are the new trails, plus lots of pump and BMX tracks dotted about the suburbs for when you can't face it.

Shaggy of this parish used to do a 24 hour ride every summer, just using local trails.

I'm sure other places are nice to live too, by the way. 🙂

Havent read all this thread but they dont like us Welshies in Bristol.

Mates used to live in St George, seems to have gone downhill a bit recently.

Brissle is a great city loads going on both good and bad.

Shaggy of this parish used to do a 24 hour ride every summer, just using local trails.