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

[QUOTE][Mrs Devine's boarding house/QUOTE]


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

Last time I went to Prestwick it was like walking through the Living Dead. Don't think I saw anyone under 85 :)

You fitted in well then, one assumes :}!!

I thought the average age in the Oceanic ops room was a bit lower these days?

That must have been the evening I was in Troon :E

Completely different from the south coast of Hampshire of course ... :ok:

Maybe it was a reflection in a shop window you saw :hmm:

OK having lived in prestwick the majority of my life I feel I should stick up for it! It all depends what you are looking for.

For younger ATCOs be warned, its not a big town. It does however have 10 pubs on one small mainstreet and in the last couple of years has become one of the most peopular places for a night out in ayrshire...especially around christmas and when theres racing on at ayr. You also have the nightclubs in ayr if you dont want to stop drinking at closing time.

For those of you who have, lets say, grown out of that behaviour, prestwick is a great place to stay. However, I do agree that Troon and Alloway are by far the nicest areas around here. For those into their golf prestwick is great with the 'Old course', the setting of the first Open Championships.

Dont forget though that Glasgow is a 30-40min drive (depending on the time of day) and its a great place to live. I stayed there during university and if i end up posted at prestwick i think i might try and move back to glasgow.

And last but not least, and im going to get slaughtered for this, Prestwick is 15mins from kilmarnock so theres always the chance to go see the mighty killie playing :ok:

If anyone wants to PM me with any questions feel free

HEY!

Some of my best friends live in paisley!

Paisley - the only place in the UK where the police dogs go round in pairs

Forget going to watch Killie.
Somerset park, Ayr's own 'theatre of dreams' home to the mighty Ayr United is only 5 minutes from Prestwick. Or you could just sit in and watch Match of the Day

Cant believe people still continue to slag off areas to live.Since my arrival in Scotland I have lived in 5 different towns/cities.There is one glaring thing I found in Scotland to be true.EVERY single town/village etc has its own hellhole.The reason being that EVERY town/village suffers from having its own Council Housing Estate(known as a Scheme locally).Some just have slightly bigger ones than others.
Here are a few things to weigh up.......
How many murders have there been in the last 12 months in the so called "places to avoid"?And what about Ayr?
How many times have you read the local rag,and noticed the number of crimes that get committed in Troon,Prestwick etc.
Everyone raves about the nightlife in Ayr and Prestwick,but how many of us know of people getting assaulted?We all do.
ALL places have their good spots and bad spots,so why continue to pretend otherwise(Even Alloway now has its own "scheme" in the new development at the bypass!!)

Finally,telling people to avoid North & East Ayrshire is silly.There are many nice areas within these counties.Nobody has mentioned the Irvine Bay Regeneration for instance.Equally,South Ayrshire gets people saying its a must.Not all of it,surely?

Paisley
 

Although common now, Paisley had the disctinction of its hopital being the first in the UK to have its own police station to cope with abusive and violet patients. Knife crime at the time was horendous.
Today, London - the Olympic City - has that distinction.

Troon is nice with great golf courses
Gliding - Couplaw Airfield, Strathhaven, Lanarkshire
also Google the Paisley Rocketeers Society

Don't worry. the area is due for a massive cash boost shortly when all that Cheshire equity arrives :}.
Robbie, There's been another murrrrder :E:E:}:}:E:E:ok:!

Another quality post from our dole scrounging, Know nothing loser Zooker?

The aviation brain with a scanner.... Sure there must be sites for the thermos brigade somewhere mate!

Two scanners actually, (one for Tower and one for Approach), AND, I might be getting my own 'radar' for Christmas :ok:.
Bet you wished you did Tower and Approach eh Fidgell? Then you wouldn't have to move to the Costa del Saltcoats :}:}.
Another deep-fried Mars Bar please :E.

MURRRRRRDER!!

Zooker, I have read through your posts and you are immature and annoying to say the least. This is an ATC forum where people ask questions and deserve sensible answers from ATCOs that know the answer, not the dross that you reply.

Why not do us all a favour & leave us in peace, anyone else agree?

Who's Zooker? That's why the 'IGNORE' function is provided:cool:!

So, LKS, do you know the answer?
Do you actually understand the question?
No, I thought not.
Going back to a topic started by Mahaba, I have just watched a programme about the Roman Emperor Hadrian. He built a wall at about 55 degrees North, close to the original EGTT/EGPX boundary. So the band 4/5 division actually dates back to AD122 :}.

That was a thing of pure beauty!! it brings a tear to my eye.:D:D:D:D:D:D
zooker you are wasted in air traffic, or are you just wasted:E:E