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Scraggle
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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 17:18 Edited at: 18th Jul 2004 17:19
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Hi

In January (or maybe before Christmas) I will be leaving Cyprus and moving back to England but I need to decide where I want to go now so that I can fill in the relevant paperwork.

I have been thinking about it and I don't really care where I live but I did realise I had three criterea and it is this I need help with.

Here are my priorities:

1 Must be within 30 mile radius of an RAF base (work commitments).

2 I would prefer a rural area - I'm a country lad at heart.

3 I have a 1Mb ADSL line now and I don't think I could go back to 56k.

RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire sounds reasonable. It's Yorkshire so it must satisfy point 2 but can I get Broadband there?

RAF Coltishall in Norfolk is a maybe. Norfolk broads are lovely but again - Broadband?

There are plenty of bases around Lincoln but I don't really know the area, so I don't know if it satisfies points 2 or 3.

If you live somewhere that satisfies all three points or just know of somewhere like that then please let me know. I have until the end of July to decide and I need help!!

Thanks

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 17:33 Edited at: 18th Jul 2004 17:35
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1&2 .. pretty easy, get over to the Ordinance Survey site and you can peruse any locality to your hearts content (they have an an online map tool)

3 .. presumably you can get a phone number for the locality (eg use a phonebook cd to get a random number in the locality or the number of a local service like a shop eg: Sainsburys..Sodsbury) and then put that into BT`s Broadband available tool on their site for starters, plus check the cable companies coverage, you might be able to get broadband as part of a cable package, here in Lincolnshire (Bomber county) we don`t get things like broadband out here in the sticks (although it is promised), towns and larger villages have it though (RAF Conningsby is just up the road from us).

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 18:07
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Thanks for the ordinance survey mention. I didn't know that site existed - it could be quite helpful.

Quote: "use a phonebook cd to get a random number"


I don't have a phonebook CD and with only 2 weeks left to put in my paperwork I don't have time to get one either. That is why I am asking for help

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Appologese in advance ...

I hear brixton is nice this time of year.

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Theres RAF bases dotted around the edge of london, lots of commuter towns too, but with plenty of countryside nearby, and being so close to london they are bound to have broadband access.


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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 19:31 Edited at: 18th Jul 2004 19:31
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Quote: "Moving to England - I need advice"


Don't!

I'm kidding, of course.


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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 20:31
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Quote: "Don't!"


It's good advice - really!
I wish I didn't have to. Unfortunately the job demands it.

When I get there I will only have 12 months left of my 15 year 'sentence' in the RAF. After that I will probably leave England again. I might even come up (down) to your neck of the woods Exeat. I spent four month touring the east coast and fell in love with the country. Particularly Cairns.
I Have relatives in Melbourne so that would ease the migration.

Anyway back to now - England ... Pah!

London is too expensive outskirts or not.

At the moment I am torn between Yorkshire and Norfolk. Does anyone know if I can get broadband there?

It may seem bizarre that I list broadband as a pre-requisite for choosing a place to live but when you have the whole country to choose from then I have to consider all my options.

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 20:59 Edited at: 18th Jul 2004 21:01
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Yorkshire have some good beers!!!

Have a look around lancashire (where i am), nice place, especially around winter hill, good chance of BB.

Not sure about the base thing tho, i think there is one within 30m.
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try some locations and enter the postcodes into BTs "broadband available" thingy, you might be able to find an online postcode tool somewhere (I am hedgeing here since Yorkshire and Norfolk have very patchy coverage AFAIK).

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Avoid Norfolk - it's kinda weird there...

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Quote: "Have a look around lancashire "


No RAF Bases in Lancashire

I spent 20 years living in Blackpool - I came to hate the place so Lancashire is a definate no-go!

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RAF Salmesbury in the North West is pretty country-sidey. If you're in for some anti-city action, then you're all set around that place. Clitheroe for example...

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No use - sorry!

I need active airfields. I am an engine technician so an RAF base without aircraft is no use to me.

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lol

RAF Connigsby --> Nr. Connigsby
RAF Waddington --Nr. Lincoln

In Lincolnshire. Plenty more around Lincolnshire. Broadband available as well

OFFTOPIC Does anybody on these forums live in Lincolnshire?


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Come to Scotland, Lossiemouth is nice...



Nice and rural, but not in the middle of nowhere (broadband should'nt be a problem) - and an RAF base too!.


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Posted: 19th Jul 2004 22:56 Edited at: 19th Jul 2004 22:58
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Yes Lossie is nice.

I spent four years living there (Dunbar St) 1991-1995
Spent most of my time in Joanna's ... Is that place still there?

I left too many 'loose ends' to go back there

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Posted: 19th Jul 2004 23:12 Edited at: 20th Jul 2004 03:27
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Quote: " 1 Must be within 30 mile radius of an RAF base (work commitments).

2 I would prefer a rural area - I'm a country lad at heart.

3 I have a 1Mb ADSL line now and I don't think I could go back to 56k."

You can buy my house if you've a spare £220k as i'm moving very soon. It's pre-wired with cable modem upstairs, cable TV and digital broadband TV downstairs, both NTL and BT telephone connections and donkey chained off either of those to around the whole house (3 points downstairs, 2 upstairs).

It's built on a little housing estate in the corner of a county park (the grounds of Oliver Cromwells mansion), and comes complete with a RAF and USAF options. Good connections to A1 and A14/M11, train station within (longish) walking distance.

Spacious 3 bedroom detached house, drive parking for 4 cars, private road parking for several more (low insurance). Conservatory and summer house inclusive. En-suite shower in main bedroom, gas heating, UPVC double glazing throughout, built January 2000 still under warranty I think. Landscaped gardens.

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Andy, I'll take it!!!
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I'm 5 miles South of North Yorkshire with Telewest 750 K broadband. However, North Yorkshire is the largest County in England...

I know that fighter craft fly low over our valley, and I've even seen a hercules fly over low with soldiers sat on the open tailgate, but I don't know where they came from.

I have a mate in York with Broadband.

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@Powersoft: I do of course , somewhere near Boston, the police car burning capital of England UMMM! thats not a good thing is it?, forget I said anything

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Quote: "Andy, I'll take it!!!
Do you take bits of string?"

If the bank accepts it as £220k then you have a deal.

For some M&M's i'll even leave half a dozen or more old computers in the loft.


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wow Mentor. where? you know where Quadring/Spalding is?


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Quote: "but I don't know where they came from."

that's us americans invading...


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yeh don't they like make love to relatives? dirty buggers

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@powersoft, umm!, thats a bit of a way off, I don`t go much further than Boston for the shopping (3 or 4 miles away), never did like to travel, not been away for a holiday for 20-odd years (spend most of them at home in front of the PC )

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so you live more Skegness side then...


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OK ... so I should avoid Norfolk and Boston. That narrows it down a little.
Although I lived in Norfolk for 3 years '98 - '01 in Caister-on-sea and I loved the area. I didn't see any relative shagging going on though, I suppose they must do it behind closed doors!

But I have been there, seen it, bought the tee-shirt so it has to go to the bottom of my list of places to go no matter how much I like it because I like to move around, so no going back to where I have live before.

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