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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    Sounds ok, so can pop over for groceries easily....why noisy at the weekend, with people going to do their weekly shop ;) ?!
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    mmm yes the steelworks are still in Scunthorpe ;) ! Not sure if the App Frod works are part of the "Tata Steel" facility now or not to be honest ! Shame Hednesford does not have a steelworks ;) !
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    You mean the Appleby Frodingham Gala? I cannot think of anything you could possible put on a postcode of Scunthorpe that would be appealing, let me think 1. The steelworks at sunrise or 2. Scunthorpe United's football ground under a full moon or how about 3. The Tesco's retail park on a snowy...
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    ha ha Scunthorpe is not very popular is it. It always amazes me that even people who have never been always know it's a bit of a hole ! (Actually it is not as bad as people perceive, as you know)
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    Thanks for the honest appraisal. This appartment I am looking at (as temporary to rent) is on Church Hill Mews......not sure if you know in that detail where in Hednesford that is, ie - good / bad or indifferent please?
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    Ok thanks for the feedback..hope somebody (with Hednesford knowledge can answer)...........can help. Quite interesting when your planning to move to an area which you know nothing about...how much you rely on local guidance..........I am sure it cannot be worse than Scunthorpe ?!
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    I guess living next door to a tip is not ideal, although in Scunthorpe the WHOLE TOWN stinks..usually of "Steelworks" smell or the sewage plant when they decide to give it a stir ! Sorry to be boring but looking at another place now (to rent) and it is in Hednesford......what is Hednesford like...
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    ha ha no your ok.....I know what you lot from Brigg are like ;) ! So, sorry...back to business....is Hobby Way Heath Hays...or is a property website pulling my plonker?
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    ha ha, sorry...on the property website I viewed it said "Hobby Way - Heath Hays" so I took it as read that is where it is / was?! BRIGG...bloody hell small world....don't tell me you went to Sir John Nelthorpe school ?! Or Brigg Grammar?
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    Thanks...so Heath Hays is not a necessarily bad choice then....sounds like it is middle of the road territory? If you currently live in Scunthorpe (as I do), anywhere must be an improvement?!
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    is what really still Heath Hays?! (Sorry...I have never been to Heath Hays so am relying on you local guru's!)
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    Thanks for the above. I am looking at a small apartment on Hobby Way....just for 3 to 6 months until I decide if the job / area etc is right for me........sounds like may not be a bad bet?
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    Hi All, well I was offered the position so am now stepping up the search for where to live. Have had a change of thought and now plan to rent for a few months first......can anybody make any honest comment on "Heath Hayes"......good / bad / indifferent / pros and cons please? Seen a couple of...
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    Where to live in Staffordshire....help required please

    not only Staffordshire advice...I also have training advise from Flossietoo !
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