Prestwick living
 

Kind of an ATC issue. Does anyone know of any half decent areas to live in Prestwick?

I have a feeling I may not get too many straight answers to this question.....

Troon is quite a nice area.

I don't know too many half decent areas - most areas are extremely decent (or indecent depending on your standards)!

Seriously - like everywhere else there are all degrees of area. Depends on your lifestyle I suppose. Do you want good education facilities (private and state) from primary to university level, quiet living, city living, sports facilities, parks, stately homes, shopping, sailing, night life, easy access to the road south :p, flying clubs?

Its all available within comfortable driving distance of NSC.

Feel free to PM if you want more specific info.

I like troon, lovely area, nice fish restaurant

I live about 30mins from Prestwick so if you have any questions about it, just PM me. I'm doing my flight training at Prestwick and love it.

Ayr is very close to Prestwick so is Kilmarnock however these are just larger towns. Kilmarnock isn't the nicest of places to live.

Even if you want to live in Glasgow, it's only about 30-40min drive from Prestwick down the M77.

Troon way is quite nice. Ayr is sadly not that nice these days.

Not so much a question as a contradiction in terms.

Sorry, but everyone else was being far too serious.

As for a useful answer, I did some time there 30 years ago - but I've never been back since. Does that help??

Ah yes, Prestwick 1968. Mrs Devine's boarding house, pubs closed at 10 o'clock, eating chips on a park bench in March with the fat congealing on one's lips, the Oceanic Centre (a wartime hut) which lived up to its name by leaking when it rained - one of the watch supervisor's jobs was to place a number of buckets in strategic places. I could go on, things must have got better ...

I would disagree about Ayr. I am Prestwick based with Ryanair and was intent on living in Troon or Prestwick initially. We then found our perfect house at a price we could afford in Ayr and are very happy here despite initial skepticism. The town centre is improving all the time, the beach is nice. There are lots of excellent restaurants, a cinema and beautiful walks along the river or the front. There is also a lot of excellent housing stock for all budgets. I won't be moving from here unless I really have to. Feel free to PM me for any further info.

Take it away MACC ATCO's............:E:E.

I am an ATCO and have been living in Troon for 19 years.

There are plenty of decent places to live within a 30 minute drive from Prestwick, both established properties and some new developments.

Kilmarnock has some very nice new homes being built on the western outskirts, have a look at the Robertson Homes (also in Ayr), Charles Church and Persimmon websites.

For ATCOs and Pilots, there should be something to suit your budget and currently house prices are pretty much stable up here.

Places that are nice:
1. Prestwick
2. Alloway
3. Doonfoot
4. Troon
5. Symington(some parts)
6. Basically most of South Ayrshire apart from a few ahem 'rural areas'
7. Newton Mearns(25 mins away)
8. Eaglesham(25 mins away)

Places not so nice
1. East Ayrshire
2. North Ayrshire
3. Paisley

Also if anybody suggests to you the towns of Irvine, Kilwinning, Saltcoats, Addrossan, Cumnock, Drongan and last but certainly not least the hell hole that is Kilmarnock, decline and then kill the person who suggested it to you.

I do have a strong bias for South Ayrshire having lived in Prestwick for nearly all of my 26 years, although living in deepest darkest Surrey this last year has probably given me rose tinted spectacles of the place :ok:

It might sound strange, but anyone knows any gliding clubs in the vicinity. I went through the BGA site and the closest are north of edinburgh or in Dalbeattie. I'm an italian ATCO, and I applied for vacancies at NATS and I'll undergo the interview this weekend. The gliding facilities is obviously not a factor, but I sure would hate myself wasting my GPL and PPL. Thanks

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aah, the joys of Queen's Terrace.


Getting lucky in the girl's flat at the (?)Parkstone.

berniecta,

These are the only gliding clubs in Scotland:-

Welcome to the British Gliding Association

Nothing particularly close at hand im afraid

Alloway is nice as is Troon. Avoid the rural towns, look on the map, but anything like Cumnock, Auckinleck, New Cumnock, Dalrymple, Catrine, Mauchline Patna, Kilmarnock etc, the houses there are cheap for a reason, they eat their babies in these places. Most of these towns are twinned with places like the Gaza Strip, Beirut, Baghdad, Chechnya etc. Avoid them like the plague, pay more for alloway or Troon, it is much better and safer. :ok:

Edinburgh is nice.

What?..... Well some of the MACC lot seem to think it's within the required area :}

Interesting it can be condemned without even being spelled properly >>>>


Addrossan

soon to be full of bitter whinging MANC atco's - its doomed for the next ten years or until they have something more important to moan about!!

Ardrossan, Addrossan whatever, its inhabitants can't read anyway