nice city / town to live around London Stansted

[Rien]

Hi There

Whitin a couple of weeks time i will start working from London Stansted. Can somebody give me advise about a nice city between Luton and Stansted. Have heard about stevenage.

Thanks

[MikeSamuel]

It's not a city as such, but when I was down roughly that way, I called in at a place called Hitchin, not exactly a city, but a pleasant town with plenty of stuff going on...Probably doesn't seem that way if you live there ;) but I thought it was the sort of place I would like to live in...better than Coventry anyway http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif

Regards

Mike

[Loony_Pilot]

Hi,

Stevenage is a reasonable place to live, other places to consider include Bishops Stortford, Hitchin, Harlow (ok maybe not harlow!)

I live near to all these places, if you want to ask any questions.. fire away

LP

[SKYYACHT]

You could try Cambidge.....not far on M11....or try Sawbridgeworth, or better yet, Takely. Little village, 5 mins from airport, and reasonably good pubs...

Tailwinds

[The flying gunman]

Depends what sort of life you want really.There are some beautiful villages in the countryside all around Stanstead.Henham and Ashton come to mind,or live at the bottom of the M11 like I do in Woodford,Essex which is 35-40 mins from Stanstead but you are on the tube line and 35mins from Central London.
Good luck.
PS Takely is right under the flight path for landings on 5 and take off on 23.Bit too close me thinks

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[Wee Weasley Welshman]

Well I have re-located Welshman Towers to Stansted village which is 4 miles door to door for work. This is a big consideration if you are going to be doing low cost ops - nothing worse than an hour in traffic to and from work.

Cheers,

WWW

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

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[StressFree]

'Stevenage is a nice place..........'
You have got to be joking!!!! I'm based at STN and live in one of the hundreds of little Essex villages around STN. Top quality of life.
Flying Gunman - I went to school in Woodford Green at the place that looks like a castle, decent part of the world.

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[euroboy]

For STN look at more the Essex, North East London areas. Harlow, Chelmsford, Bishops Stortford, Cambridge.
Hitchin, Stevenage are hideious drives no motorways, all cross country and the traffic is terrible. Worse than the M25 some mornings. If you are on home SBY you may never make it. http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif
If you are tempted Old Stevenage is nice.

[Hamrah]

Try Sawbridgeworth, between Stortford and Harlow, direct train link to STN (10 minutes), 14 pubs within walking distance, and (apart from Posh and Becks) the neighbours are reasonably friendly.

Cheers

H

[Rien]

Thanks for all the information. I will go there next week en drive around. Is there a train from stevenage to Stansted and are trains expensive in the UK

Rien

[euroboy]

There are trains from Stevenage to Stansted but involves up to 3 changes of train, but usually 2 train changes. You may have to go into London take the tube and go back up to Stansted. The quickest journey is 1 and half hours but on average 2 hours. Trains in UK expensive and no longer reliable. I use to use the train regularly but now I go by coach.

There are direct trains from Cambridge to Stansted taking about 30 mins.


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[Rien]

OK, so stevenage is not a good option. Ik think Cambridge might be Good too. I prefer to live in a city because i don't know to many people jet. I will share a house with a friend who start flying for Easy so it must be easy to go to Luton and to Stansted as well. Is a house in cambridge expensive?

[euroboy]

Yeh houses in Cambridge one of the most expensive in the region coz of High Tec companies and University.

Your friends at EasyJet would find it difficult from Cambridge to Luton.

Now I know what you are trying to do try Northampton, Milton Keynes. Only 45 mins-1 hour to LTN and there is a Coach Link between the two.
For Stansted you would need to drive but you would be on duel carriageway take about 1 hour 45 mins. Traffic isnt too bad.
Other than that I can only suggest North (North East) London

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[Teenyweeny ATC Cdt Cpl]

Chelmsford? A nice town? There's a phrase i haven't heard in a while...
...live 5 miles or so to the S. STN wouldn't be too bad (30 mins on the A414 then short hop up M11), as for LTN you'd have to take your chances on the M25 - not a good idea, as A12/M25 is usually resembling a car park most mornings.
-tacc

[StressFree]

Teeneyweeny........
What a ridiculous name. Is this 'student' humour or are you really backward?

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[johntrav69]

Try this link and when loaded you will have to play around a bit to get it near Stansted/Luton, but some good info.

http://www.upmystreet.com/overview/index.php3?location1=mk44

[scarebus]

Just bought a really nice place in Braintree,
its worth a look.
sb

[springbok449]

Hey Rien,
Why don't you try St Albans? Lots of good pubs and a friendly place to live only 15 mins away from London by train.
Good luck with the job.

[euroboy]

Being a St Albans boy born and bread yeh great pubs etc......getting to LTN easy but STN not. Renting accomodation not the cheapest.

[capt waffoo]

euroboy, don't you mean "corn and bread???"
;)

[euroboy]

Capt Waffoo

Sorry spelling typing too fast bread bred

will type s-l-o-w-e-r.....

[foghorn]

Bedford is gets my vote. It's a bit of an undiscovered gem.

Ignore the bit around the train station and bus station, it's quite grotty, the rest of the town, down by the river Ouse and the outlying villages are really nice. House prices and rents are generally lower than the rest of region.

Bedford station is on the Thameslink which means 24 hour trains into central London (and LTN) which is good for getting home from a few beers. It's 45 mins - 1 hour by car to STN, about 30 mins to LTN.

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[Joe Curry]

>>Just bought a really nice place in Braintree, its worth a look.<<

My brother lives in Braintree and I fly EDI-
STN a few times yearly. It's an easy 30
minute drive from STN, Braintree has all
the facilities you might care for.

The road is being upgraded to dual carriageway and that will cut the journey time down to about 15/20 minutes. :)