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littleme

250,000th poster!
Who do they think you are @bandwagon ?

That was your first post, so why do you think that nobody likes you? :mystery:
Because of this......

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I have removed @bandwagon 's posts as not only were they reported by a number of people, but I suspect that it is the same person as @The truth the whole truth. If not the same person, then they are definitely representative of the same organisation; these are what are known as
sockpuppet accounts and are not allowed on here (or, indeed, most internet discussion forums).
A reminder to everyone, please refrain from posting personal information, in this thread or anywhere else on The Forum. Publicly accessible information is fine (stuff from Companies House, matters of public record, etc.), but trawling Facebook for people, screengrabbing their information and so forth is not really cricket. I don't care if their Facebook profile has poor privacy settings; it is still a personal profile and their information should not be reproduced without their say so.
In other words:
And I have to say, without knowing @MAL or even having read this thread (before the reports started coming in), fair play to them for taking the time to respond to as many replies as possible, regardless of how barbed they may be."

...here....

www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/rugby-clubs-plans-go-to-judicial-review.16915/page-24
 

Carole

Well-Known Forumite
Oh I see.

I was late to the rugby thread and have no idea what is going on or who Mal is or The truthwhole truth either.

Have I missed anything?
 

Jess86

Newbie
Hi I have just joined the page as my husband has just been offered a job in fradley. We are a young family with school age children and he does not want more than 20mins commute. Looking for advise on nice rural villages to live in need a 5 bed house and looking to spend about 400k. Would like a small village with a pub and village shop and a primary school in walking distance.

Thank you
 

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
Welcome!

Stafford won't be for you, it takes 20 minutes to get out of your own street, Fradley is a good three days away.
 

Carole

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Hi I have just joined the page as my husband has just been offered a job in fradley. We are a young family with school age children and he does not want more than 20mins commute. Looking for advise on nice rural villages to live in need a 5 bed house and looking to spend about 400k. Would like a small village with a pub and village shop and a primary school in walking distance.

Thank you

Hello Jess and welcome to the forum.

If your husband has a job in Fradley which itself is a village then you could look at houses there and he could walk to work.

Nearby are Barton Under Needwood, Longdon/Longdon Green.

There are lots of villages around Fradley but I dont know them so can't comment. This forum tends to be based around Stafford itself rather than Staffordshire in general but there may be someone else who knows of a nice place nearby.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Hello Jess and welcome to the forum.

If your husband has a job in Fradley which itself is a village then you could look at houses there and he could walk to work.

Nearby are Barton Under Needwood, Longdon/Longdon Green.

There are lots of villages around Fradley but I dont know them so can't comment. This forum tends to be based around Stafford itself rather than Staffordshire in general but there may be someone else who knows of a nice place nearby.
Longdon Green is very pleasant, as is Upper Longdon.
 

Trumpet

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Kings Bromley is very nice as are the Ridwares. Avoid Armitage and Handsacre
Not sure about schools though. Outskirts of Lichfield may be worth a look. .
 

Katniss

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Hi I have just joined the page as my husband has just been offered a job in fradley. We are a young family with school age children and he does not want more than 20mins commute. Looking for advise on nice rural villages to live in need a 5 bed house and looking to spend about 400k. Would like a small village with a pub and village shop and a primary school in walking distance.

Thank you


I would live in Lichfield but I did used to live there so I am bias.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I would live in Lichfield but I did used to live there so I am bias.
Nice as Lichfield is, it doesn't really qualify as a nice rural village.

Unless there has been an awful lot of demolition in the past week or so since I was last there.





Edited for a pretty inexcusable spelling mistake!
 
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Katniss

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Nice as Lichfield is, it doesn't really qualify as a nice rural village.

Unless there has been an awful lot of demolishon in the past week or so since I was last there.

I don't get the appeal of a nice rural village having lived in one a while ago. For a start if you have children you will have to drive them out of the village to find a decent school but then again it is personal choice. I recommend Upper Longdon if that is the kind of place she is looking for.
 

Carole

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I don't get the appeal of a nice rural village having lived in one a while ago. For a start if you have children you will have to drive them out of the village to find a decent school .

Nonsense.
Plenty of villages have perfectly wonderful village schools that you can walk to easily.

That was one of the main reasons that we bought a house in a village.

And Jess did ask specifically for reccomendations on nice rural villages and not nice towns or cities.
 

Katniss

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Nonsense.
Plenty of villages have perfectly wonderful village schools that you can walk to easily.

That was one of the main reasons that we bought a house in a village.

And Jess did ask specifically for reccomendations on nice rural villages and not nice towns or cities.

Primary school?
 

shoes

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I don't get the appeal of a nice rural village having lived in one a while ago. For a start if you have children you will have to drive them out of the village to find a decent school but then again it is personal choice. I recommend Upper Longdon if that is the kind of place she is looking for.
I'm fortunate enough not to have kids, and village life is amazing. Quiet, low crime (and thus very cheap insurances), more for your money than in the town if you're savvy. I'm quite sad to be letting go of shoes towers as it means I'll probably have to move closer to a town :(
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I'm fortunate enough not to have kids, and village life is amazing. Quiet, low crime (and thus very cheap insurances), more for your money than in the town if you're savvy. I'm quite sad to be letting go of shoes towers as it means I'll probably have to move closer to a town :(
Not as sad as the people in town are.....
 
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