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  • Slough named as the 'best place' to work and live
  • CHB
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    It’s a ploy to keep people there!

    CountZero
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    “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…).

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    giantalkali
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    Thriving paper industry

    thisisnotaspoon
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    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!

    huckleberryfatt
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    Slough is in a part of the country which offers “pleasant environments”

    Yeah but not the bits that have Slough in

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

    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
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    But it rhymes with trough! 😯

    thisisnotaspoon
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    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?

    Cougar
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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.

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

    Yes

    Scaffell, Staithes and Strathpeffer?

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

    martinhutch
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    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.

    thisisnotaspoon
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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.

    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!!!!!!!

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

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

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

    Bit like Grimsby.

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

    Bit like Grimsby.

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

    phiiiiil
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    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.

    teamhurtmore
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    Excellent grammar school

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

    TheBrick
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    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.

    Pigface
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    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.

    binners
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    All the places that are actually 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

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

    IdleJon
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    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.

    funkrodent
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    @ 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.. 😉

    binners
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    It’s the reason I moved out of Chorlton 😉

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

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