I'm leaving Cambridge because it's not a very good place to live. It doesn't function very well as a city, particularly during term time when you have thousands trying to get in to the colleges and private schools. You have to plan your day around the routine gridlock that sets in between 7 and 9 and then again between 3:30 and 6. If the weather is bad, and people who normally use bicycles take to their cars, then it's even worse.ChrisHunt wrote:Hi Paul, if you don't have to go into London that often I would stick with Norwich - much better than Ipswich. But why move away from Cambridge?
In summer, the little city centre is jam-packed with tourists and conga-lines of language students being conducted from one place to another. Even Cambridge city council, a bunch of wishy-washy liberals who haven't got a pair of balls between them, has now accepted that life for residents trying to go about their lives and business in the city is becoming 'challenging'.
It's congested, overcrowded and over priced. A two-bedroom terrace fronting straight on to the street is now touching £400K. Of course, as a vendor that's fine for me, and I shall be splitting the proceeds between my two daughters to help them buy homes. However, it angers me that housing has become an investment opportunity rather than a basic human right, and nowhere is that folly more evident than Cambridge.
Some might think Cambridge is beautiful, and yes it does have some historic buildings. However, with the obvious exception of Kings College chapel, most of these buildings are hidden behind the walls of the colleges and aren't accessible or even viewable. Take those away and Cambridge is just as drab and uninteresting as Thetford. In fact, if it wasn't for the colleges, it would actually BE Thetford.
Sorry to rant.
