Pieman2

Thinking of moving to Northampton. What's good and what's not?

Prince Popeye

Have heard its the cultural capital of the UK according to Paul hapgood.

Leslie

I was told to keep my car doors locked when driving through it!

Les

davyboy

Being the biggest town in the UK with a population of 200k, it does have it's good and bad parts.

Breawn treausus from deauwn teauwn.

borich

well im a student here and i can tel u some stuff about. The town centre is pretty crap your bascis shops but best going to milton keynes shopping. soem rough areas. but im in student housing so im sure theres better stuff out there. going out pletny of bars and clubs just make sure u don't go to the crap ones. theres all the supermarkers here except asda right near m1 so location is good. ugc cinema and uci cinema. not bad i guess could do worse

Borich

Lord Shrek

full of neds i have heard

trubble

There are good and bad points, like anywhere really. location is really good, not too far from london as well as the midlands and the north. and the shopping is abysmal but most people go to milton keynes, which is heaven.
does have dodgy areas, but thre nice parts are really nice and the schools are good too.
overall, a good place to bring up a family, but not the best place if you are looking for fun and nightlife.

davyboy

I am not sure where else you have been, but if bars are your thing, then you would have to travel an hour to beat it!

Kussimurran

Northamptonshire is OK. We live on the East side, on the other side of the M1, as the countryside is much nicer that way. Otherwise the town is just like any other British town of its size-overcrowded, overtrafficked and full of roadworks.

john_s

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Once had a cracking night out in Northampton a couple of years ago after a day watching F3 qualifying at Silverstone. Raceday wasn't much fun with the MOA hangovers!



My best mate lived just outside Northampton (Rushden) for a while; that seemed a reasonable area. He used to go down to MK for nights out rather than into Northampton.

John.

MrData

Oh, and by the way. The Police in Northampton just love speed cameras. It's got to be one of the worst places I know. They have those mobile vans out all of the time. They also have SPECS cameras on some of the minor roads.

*******O's!

Pieman2

So what are the good areas? And the bad ones?

davyboy

As a rule of thumb, if you are looking at a map, avoid anything to the right of the A43.

Also avoid, Spencer, Gladstone rd, and Kingsheath.

what would scooby do

Everybody in Bucks and Beds avoids Northampton for the following reasons :-

1) Town centre is filthy and full of chavs
2) Speed camera Hell - one very few feet
3) A while back a gang of Albanians(IIRC) took over the shopping centre.. not a good sign..

I'd suggest going to one of the nice villages in the area.

davyboy

lol @ took over! I think there was a fight.....thats it!

john_s

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Don't come to lancashire then... there's more scameras in Preston than there is in the whole of Northamptonshire.

John.

Mark Miwurdz

I take it you're not doing a degree in English.

Nicci

Pieman2,

depends on what you are looking for.

I moved to the town from southern Essex just over 3 years ago.
I like the fact that the area is not that busy.
You can always park in the town centre on a Saturday (average shops, but Milton Keynes is not far away).
Its not compulsory to dress up in your best designer clothes on a night out.
Only takes a few mins (if that) to get to the countryside and have a blast.

I do get the impression that the local health service is rubbish and that its impossible to get a dentist (I have been naughty and are still registered with my doctor 100 miles away).

Listen to Davyboy for areas to move to.

I like the place, where are you moving from?

Neanderthal

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I've lived in or Northampton all my life but I've never heard anyone refer to it as numpty?
Like every town/city it has its good and bad points. One of the best (as people have said before) is that it's nice and central to a lot of counties with very good links to most. Although the "safety" camera situation is getting beyond a joke

-=Buzz=-

Don't believe Neanderthal, he's biased

AND he wears a grey cardigan - over his beige tank top

NACRO

I can only comment on these places that I've been to for various periods of time.

Rushden- sh1te town with some crap pubs and a history of shoemaking. Full of neds and unmarried benefit mothers and also a nice curry house whose name I can't remember.

Higham Ferrers- small village offshoot of Rushden- a sh1te place with a weekend street violence and ned problem. Good pub called the green dragon filled with neds/student types at the weekend, other than that OK.

Kettering- a town populated by villainous 6 toed scumbags with the obligatory push chair benefit mothers and a total lack of anything to do other than beat each other- GOOD.


Billing Mill- ****e lake/leisure complex type place frequented by low rent midlander types who like to think they come from "down south" as if that in some way makes them any less scummy. Car park full of rep mobiles and similar ****e, basically the "honest god fearing" scumbag type like to go there for low rent thrills surrounded by other family wielding idiots of the same ilk.


Northampton- spiritual home of the burberry cap and low rent/meaningless low level violence capital of the krypto-midlands.

The whole area is mediocre in the worst sense of the word. ******* sh1te.

RichWalk

I lived (survived) in Kettering for 2 and a half years; amazing similar to Bromsgrove near Brum, both visually/ for the weekend violence/ and general lack of anything to do whatsoever- only thing I enjoyed was burying all the chavs in their Nova's with my GPG N Pug of the time.
A mate ran the N.hampton branch of HMV, got threatened by gangs on a reg basis.

NACRO

quote: "Like every town/city it has its good and bad points. One of the best (as people have said before) is that it's nice and central to a lot of counties with very good links to most"

Yes you can get out of the place nice and quickly, has to be a plus point. I'd rather live in Birmingham and believe me if you've ever spent time there you'll know how crap Northampton is if Birmingham offers a better alternative.

Nicci

I don't like Birmingham at all, doesn't feel safe to me. I prefer London as a city, but maybe thats what I am more used too.

As some of you have started talking about Northamptonshire, what about beautiful Corby?

I don't think there are that many chavs in Northampton, I have been to towns with a huge amount more.

Neanderthal

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I've only ever dared drive the around outskirts of Corby!

CraigH

I find it as a place, generally very unfriendly.

Theres a big stigma about the eastern side, but it's not "all" bad, just parts of it.

The sainsburys in Duston is cr4p (no good currys ), theres bloody dual carriageways everywhere, everyone is always in a rush, it's v overpriced and the places that are "prestigious" are so close to the M1 it's all you can hear.

Women wear more sovereign rings and have more tattoos than the men and there's too many dodgy geezers in old 2nd hand Porsches

At this moment, I REALLY wish we hadn't moved here

RichWalk

Oh what memories- used to go drinking in Corby now and again- made Kettering look like Monte Carlo!

Nicci

I agree with that, sadly its my local. With no other stores nearby, its selection should be better.

Dodgy women all over the country have big rings etc.

As for the Porsche comment, I never classed Davyboy or his cars as dodgy.