Woking

[MrRobin]

Probably going to be moving house fairly soon to somewhere within the London commuter belt. Woking is coming up trumps in our initial selections because of train links, modest house prices and a decent selection of local hospitals for the missus to work in.

Does / has anyone live(d) in Woking? Any recommendations on the different neighbourhoods?

Ta.

[MickeyP]

Guildford.

[vetran]

Jacobswell, Stoughton,Send used to be nice, proper contractor areas with big houses!

[hyperD]

I live around the area.

Some nice places are W. Byfleet, Woodham, St George's Hill (Cliffy R woohoo!) Horsell, Pyrford, Ripley (Eric Clapton, woohoo!)

Places to avoid are:

New Haw: teenage chav scum
Addlestone: chav scum
Byfleet: nice pub but infected with chav scum
Send/Send Marsh: a bit "Stepford Wives"

Woking: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious"

[DBA_bloke]

Woking - dunno what happened to it, as I think it was once a nice place, but it's a minging bumhole of a dive, now, IMHO.

[Chugnut]

St George's Hill (Cliffy R woohoo!) Horsell

St George's Hill (Jensen Button woohoo!) - you need to be *seriously* minted to afford here. Check Google maps satellite view - mansions a go go.

Horsell - (Richard Burton / Martians woohoo!)

[wendigo100]

St George's Hill (Jensen Button woohoo!) - you need to be *seriously* minted to afford here. Check Google maps satellite view - mansions a go go.

Horsell - (Richard Burton / Martians woohoo!)

Martians?

[hyperD]

Martians?

In the First World War, and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations using the crude weapons of those days. The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction. And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on the Earth comes the War of the Worlds.

[MrRobin]

Cheers. Horsell looks alright, as does Knaphill. Other areas mentioned are more Guilford way but perhaps will check them out too. Perhaps I'll give the £1M+ celeb mansions a miss for the moment

I think the martian reference is to do with War of the Worlds? They first landed in Woking!

[MrRobin]

They even have a Wellsian martian sculpture. Oh dear!

Concerned you think it's a reeking hole, DBA Bloke, care to elaborate?