Woking, Surrey - what's it like?
30 May 2006, 07:40 PM
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Woking, Surrey - what's it like?
Evening folks,
I've got a new job
, starting next Monday, that means I'll be based in Woking.
Just wondered if anyone has advice about things like decent/bad areas to park, good or bad pubs, good or bad restaurants, etc.
About the only things I know so far are that it'll probably be a PITA to commute to, and that it grew up around the overspill cemeteries for London (apparently!)
Cheers,
Steve
I've got a new job
, starting next Monday, that means I'll be based in Woking.Just wondered if anyone has advice about things like decent/bad areas to park, good or bad pubs, good or bad restaurants, etc.
About the only things I know so far are that it'll probably be a PITA to commute to, and that it grew up around the overspill cemeteries for London (apparently!)
Cheers,
Steve
30 May 2006, 07:45 PM
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we live in Woking 
parking is expensive and a nightmare... where will you be working?
Yates' is a good place to socialise
parking is expensive and a nightmare... where will you be working?
Yates' is a good place to socialise
30 May 2006, 08:18 PM
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have a wander over to www.surreyscoobies.co.uk , plenty of those boys from round there and you can't beat 'local' knowledge ....
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30 May 2006, 08:30 PM
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Pikey dump I'm afraid, complete with it's own muslim 'no go' area for whites after dark.
There are some nice(ish) suburbs though - but mega expensive property wise.
There are some nice(ish) suburbs though - but mega expensive property wise.
30 May 2006, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
Pikey dump I'm afraid, complete with it's own muslim 'no go' area for whites after dark.
30 May 2006, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Kinky
excuse me!! where's that then? i've lived in Woking for 15 years and i have yet to find it!!
Stick to the 'nice' parts you should be ok - although there are increased muggings in places like Horsell and Maybury these days too. - always by asians
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30 May 2006, 08:43 PM
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I live in one of the nice suburbs around woking, the town centre is the usual chav infested hole during the day and a drunken **** puke filled hole during most friday and saturday nights, needless to say I refuse to venture into the town anymore.
My wife works in the town centre and parks in victoria way muli storey when forced to drive in but its £9 a day , she cycles for free when the weather permits and or walks.
Rat & parot, yates, and a few others are ok pubs for a lunchtime pint but during the evening I head to the pubs in horsell, the red lion, plough, cricketers, crown etc are all good pubs.
My wife works in the town centre and parks in victoria way muli storey when forced to drive in but its £9 a day
, she cycles for free when the weather permits and or walks.Rat & parot, yates, and a few others are ok pubs for a lunchtime pint but during the evening I head to the pubs in horsell, the red lion, plough, cricketers, crown etc are all good pubs.
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30 May 2006, 10:30 PM
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Steve - its a dump mate - but ok to work in if you aren't living there. Reading to Woking is a bit crap - pretty similar to my drive doing Bracknell - Guildford so I can give you a few tips for routes 
Nice and handy to meet you for a pint too
When do you start - can tell ya next time I see ya, or we could just sort an improptu beer
Nice and handy to meet you for a pint too
When do you start - can tell ya next time I see ya, or we could just sort an improptu beer
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Woking is really quite nice especially when compared to certain areas of Essex!!
30 May 2006, 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Kinky
Woking is really quite nice especially when compared to certain areas of Essex!!
30 May 2006, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Kinky
Woking is really quite nice especially when compared to certain areas of Essex!!
And I don't know any mates living in a 20 mile radius of Guildford who would say it was ok........... 
Oh BTW Steve - congrats on the job mate - more mods now!!!!
31 May 2006, 08:24 AM
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I've commuted from Woking for 18 months now - it's your average small UK town with a standard 60s shopping centre, an Asian community and a scattering of chavs on the central streets. Some ok pubs and restaurants. Nothing exciting but it's not really a **** hole either.
The villages around it are nice (including the most expensive house in the UK).
Good luck
Gordo
The villages around it are nice (including the most expensive house in the UK).
Good luck
Gordo
31 May 2006, 08:37 AM
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I've worked in Woking for 9 years and it's an okay place for work, but I wouldn't live here. There are some very nice surrounding areas (West End, Chobham, Guildford etc) but the town centre itself is subject to the usual chaviness of a daytime.
It's got a fair selection of nice coffee shops and would you believe, Subway opens today!!!! Try Barcelona for a pint and a tapas for less than a tenner at lunchtime.
Who you gonna be working for??
It's got a fair selection of nice coffee shops and would you believe, Subway opens today!!!! Try Barcelona for a pint and a tapas for less than a tenner at lunchtime.
Who you gonna be working for??
31 May 2006, 08:53 AM
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Cheers for the info folks - not sure whether to be pleased or scared now!
We be working for SPSS - based in the middle of town near the Peacock Centre. Andy P - I parked in that multi-storey when I went for my interview! Hope there's somewhere a bit cheaper nearby!?
Jawa - hello chap; glad you got back from the Balkans ok. Will give you a bell re beer & routes.
Cheers,
Steve
We be working for SPSS - based in the middle of town near the Peacock Centre. Andy P - I parked in that multi-storey when I went for my interview! Hope there's somewhere a bit cheaper nearby!?
Jawa - hello chap; glad you got back from the Balkans ok. Will give you a bell re beer & routes.
Cheers,
Steve
31 May 2006, 11:23 AM
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I lived and worked there for 2 months back in 2000, thought it was OK personally, and thats from a Northerners viewpoint
Some decent roads around there as well.
Some decent roads around there as well.
31 May 2006, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Dream Weaver
Some decent roads around there as well.
Well most of them anyway Parking you are best to do outside and spend 10 mins walking in........
31 May 2006, 02:46 PM
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The town centre has very little going for it apart from the roads which take you away - deeply unpleasant.
This superb insight from Chavscum.co.uk sums it up really:
"I can’t keep quiet and must provide you with my further adventures of everyday life in the spunkbubble town of Woking and its despicable ‘care in the community’ burbury wearing ****creep population of chavs.
In Dantes Inferno he describes that there are in fact 7 levels of hell and on the bottom level you will find Judas Iscariot in a block of ice. Well that’s bollocks. You will in fact find the town of Woking.
Did you know that Woking only exists because of the fact that during the black plague in London, the cemeteries were so overfull that they decided to cart the bodies out of London and bury them. Thus Woking was created. ON DEAD BODIES!
Anyway, Woking has two shopping centres the ‘best’ location is called the Peacock centre. The Peacock centre is on several levels connected by a series of escalators. Obviously since the Peacock’s has a Macdonald’s and a Madhouse it’s a magnet for the little ****ers and a couple of Saturdays ago I was descending on one when I noticed that the exit was crowded with what I can only describe as a bunch of ****s.
Why I immediately came to that conclusion is that they were decked out in regulation tracksuits (primark), burbury caps (matalans) and white trainers (**** knows, but I bet they stank of ****).
Anyway the skanky *******s were hovering like farts so I walked straight through the bunch giro touting tossers, nearly pushing one particular chav on his ****. This resulted in the aggrieved Chav asking me what the **** did I think I was doing.
Now theres an old saying of wisdom in hindsight, and now I look back and think of all the witty one liners I could of said but none come close to my simple knee jerk rejoinder of ’**** off, son.” Whilst walking off.
I really do know what the Chav made of this affront to his pride, I’d walked off but I can tell you it felt great, although I did have to wash my hands wear they palmed the chav out of the way, for fear of contracting a disease.
I’m lucky that I can get out of the ****hole for 8 hours a day on weekdays as I commute to London to work. However, this means that I have to run the gauntlet of Woking train station! The townside of the station sits amusingly opposite an off-licence which lets face it, acts as a loaded chav gun waiting to go off, and regularly does, like a ****ing machine gun with unlimited ammo!
It’s not so bad in the morning, as everyone’s knows the chav only gets up in time for Trisha, but come six o’clock when I step off the train I feel like demanding a direct apology from god for making me live in such a ****witt town.
Through the ticket stiles the casual observer will be assailed by groups of these filthy kings and queens of ****. Not for the faint hearted you will have to stand by the pedestrian crossing waiting for the lights to turn red whilst the standing chavs hurl abuse at themselves, you and the other unfortunates all praying for the lights to change.
This brings me to my second tale, which occurred at this crossing. I’d left the station and was standing queuing with other ‘norms’ waiting for the lights to change when a couple of chavettes wearing hoop earrings (T-Maxx) and not a lot else emerged from the subway. I wouldn’t want to speculate the subject of their conversation, which ended abruptly when they emerged into the waiting crowd. But one of the walking STD’s tailed off their conversation with “so I was sucking his ****…….”, Bless.
Ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls I give you Woking Town. No really, I’m giving it to you, you can ****ing have it. "
This superb insight from Chavscum.co.uk sums it up really:
"I can’t keep quiet and must provide you with my further adventures of everyday life in the spunkbubble town of Woking and its despicable ‘care in the community’ burbury wearing ****creep population of chavs.
In Dantes Inferno he describes that there are in fact 7 levels of hell and on the bottom level you will find Judas Iscariot in a block of ice. Well that’s bollocks. You will in fact find the town of Woking.
Did you know that Woking only exists because of the fact that during the black plague in London, the cemeteries were so overfull that they decided to cart the bodies out of London and bury them. Thus Woking was created. ON DEAD BODIES!
Anyway, Woking has two shopping centres the ‘best’ location is called the Peacock centre. The Peacock centre is on several levels connected by a series of escalators. Obviously since the Peacock’s has a Macdonald’s and a Madhouse it’s a magnet for the little ****ers and a couple of Saturdays ago I was descending on one when I noticed that the exit was crowded with what I can only describe as a bunch of ****s.
Why I immediately came to that conclusion is that they were decked out in regulation tracksuits (primark), burbury caps (matalans) and white trainers (**** knows, but I bet they stank of ****).
Anyway the skanky *******s were hovering like farts so I walked straight through the bunch giro touting tossers, nearly pushing one particular chav on his ****. This resulted in the aggrieved Chav asking me what the **** did I think I was doing.
Now theres an old saying of wisdom in hindsight, and now I look back and think of all the witty one liners I could of said but none come close to my simple knee jerk rejoinder of ’**** off, son.” Whilst walking off.
I really do know what the Chav made of this affront to his pride, I’d walked off but I can tell you it felt great, although I did have to wash my hands wear they palmed the chav out of the way, for fear of contracting a disease.
I’m lucky that I can get out of the ****hole for 8 hours a day on weekdays as I commute to London to work. However, this means that I have to run the gauntlet of Woking train station! The townside of the station sits amusingly opposite an off-licence which lets face it, acts as a loaded chav gun waiting to go off, and regularly does, like a ****ing machine gun with unlimited ammo!
It’s not so bad in the morning, as everyone’s knows the chav only gets up in time for Trisha, but come six o’clock when I step off the train I feel like demanding a direct apology from god for making me live in such a ****witt town.
Through the ticket stiles the casual observer will be assailed by groups of these filthy kings and queens of ****. Not for the faint hearted you will have to stand by the pedestrian crossing waiting for the lights to turn red whilst the standing chavs hurl abuse at themselves, you and the other unfortunates all praying for the lights to change.
This brings me to my second tale, which occurred at this crossing. I’d left the station and was standing queuing with other ‘norms’ waiting for the lights to change when a couple of chavettes wearing hoop earrings (T-Maxx) and not a lot else emerged from the subway. I wouldn’t want to speculate the subject of their conversation, which ended abruptly when they emerged into the waiting crowd. But one of the walking STD’s tailed off their conversation with “so I was sucking his ****…….”, Bless.
Ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls I give you Woking Town. No really, I’m giving it to you, you can ****ing have it. "
31 May 2006, 03:01 PM
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well i disagree - sounds more like a description of Plymouth - now that place IS hell on earth!!
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Should be said that it's only the town cwntre itself that is crap. As mentioned elsewhere the places round and about are very nice indeed. Chobham, Knaphill, West End, Pirbright, Brookwood, etc.
31 May 2006, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
Should be said that it's only the town cwntre itself that is crap. As mentioned elsewhere the places round and about are very nice indeed. Chobham, Knaphill, West End, Pirbright, Brookwood, etc.
31 May 2006, 08:15 PM
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I work in St Johns which is a reasonable village.
I looked at moving closer to work, but after much thought and looking around I settled on Bookham, which is 12 miles away!!!
I would comment further about Woking, but I don't think it would be constructive.
Good luck with your new job!
I looked at moving closer to work, but after much thought and looking around I settled on Bookham, which is 12 miles away!!!
I would comment further about Woking, but I don't think it would be constructive.
Good luck with your new job!