No, but go for it if you think the sums are right. Lots more snow days too
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No, but go for it if you think the sums are right. Lots more snow days too
I've thought of it tbh, as you seem to get a lot more bang for your buck in terms of houses, and living in Thornhill, it's sometimes more convenient to use the banks etc in Caerphilly than to go to town.
Shops are crap mind.
One reason not to - the A470!Originally Posted by Nelsonca61
This. If you leave Cardiff but have to travel in to work, probably the most important factor for me would be the proximity to a train station. I travel out of Cardiff up the A470 and the M4 every morning and the queues coming in are usually horrendous. That being said I do like Caerphilly and if I were to have to move for financial reasons, that would probably be where I would go.
I've been travelling up and down the A470 5 days a week for 13 years and currently have the luxury of Heath high and low level 12 mins walk away, Caerphilly is looking favourable at the moment or I might just bottle it and stick.
I lived in Caerphilly for 5years having lived and worked in Cardiff all my life.
I just found it a pain logistically. Houses were much cheaper but After a while I felt that the houses in Cardiff were increasing in value faster than Caerphilly and if I didn't move back to the Big City when we did we may never afford to move back to a similar size property and it would have been a case of down sizing to mov back.
The thought of moving away from the City has never entered my head. Moving up the sticks no way man.
Move to Barry. Sorted.
or so you may think.....With new developments in Wenvoe and a huge estate on the site of the old HTV studios, the traffic will be horendous. Cardiff seems to want to agree on all these new builds, including the huge development set for the outskirts of Creigiau, but little or new news on any improvement to the public transport infrastructure, we seem to lack behind all other major cities I visit. Cardiff is already gridlocked with traffic at peak times and needs to do something with the public transport, or lack of, in advance of or at least inconjunction with new development.
Take the train. 20 minutes.
All well 'n good if you are in the vicinity of the station, not so good if you were in highlight park. PT is superb where you are but diabolical in more rural areas of South Wales.
same with the development that's just off ely bridge over to the old wiggins teap site (looks like the road link is nearly done)
the traffic on ely bridge is a nightmare the new builds to the west of city
I'm back and forth kent so spent half the time in Cardiff the other half in kent i haven't noticed much building of homes there
Mmm hmm...
My mother lives at the bottom end by Ely Bridge, traffic is already congested there and the additional 700 houses won't help alleviate the situation. The council missed a trick linking the A4232 and Western Avenue at Ely Bridge roundabout, would have eased congestion through Ely, Caerau and Canton, especially when you consider all the development planned in the Creigau area also. Now that can never be achieved with The Mill development.
The new road that links The Mill to Ely Bridge is intended for use by service vehicles only and not for cars. But I am pretty sure that will never be the case. The proposal is that the site of The Mill which boasts, 1 school, a milk factory, doctors, pharmacy and other businesses should all come in and out through one route, which is the crossroads where Broad Street meets Sanatorium road. Not to mention another housing estate with 300 homes that already make use of the very same crossroads for again the only entry and exit of their estate. So that's 1,000 homes, schools, businesses all feeding to one set of lights.
I say to my mother she should move but both her and my step dad are happy there so no need to push the issue. They've improved the cycle path at least and make it easier to join onto the Ely trail, plus the walk to the stadium becomes a lot quicker. So there are positives for them.
Ideally I'd like to stay in Cardiff, but I see what's going on around Ely roundabout and think I'm better off going to Tumpy Land. Essentially, there are two ways of getting to Cowbridge Road West from where I live in Fairwater - via the Roundabout or the level crossing at St. Fagans. For weeks, the latter has been like the traffic you get at rush hour between the hours of 8am and 6pm and the latter was closed for a few days last week. During that time, a journey to, say, the Aldis on Cowbridge Road was taking about twenty five minutes when normally it would take ten - in the end, I decided to drive through the side roads and over the level crossing before St. Fagans to get to the Drope and come out by what was the Culver!
That's what driving in west Cardiff is like before all of the houses to be built by Ely Paper Mill are filled and before the Plasdwr estate is built and yet you get a smug dickhead on that Jason Mohammad programme a few weeks ago saying everything will be fine - of course, we've had stories like this
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...ation-13367126
since then
Two points:
1. I used to attend Lansbury Park junior school back in the day. At the end of the yard there was a long bumpy stretch of grass with loads of mini hills. This was commonly referred to as the tumps. It made for an epic game of bulldog and is probably why half of Caerphilly use a stick to walk.
2. Caerphilly is a great place to live. I'd say it's on a par with Bridgend and Barry if you enjoy spotting ugly weird people. I'm pretty sure most of the strange people on here inhabit one of these three places.
I went there as well and also remember them, although wouldn't have without you mentioning them. Good memory that.
You have all missed the best areas Talbot Green,Pontyclun,Llantrisant-main line station 13 minutes into Cardiff, buses every 20 minutes.good access by road A4119 or M4 and the aforementioned cheaper housing.Oh!Only 20 minutes by car to CCS!!!
If you leave at 4am with a good tail wind
Best beer & ale in South Wales too
I remember misjudging one particular tump once and biting off part of my tongue. I'm still amazed to this day how much blood came out of one mouth. Probably why I still remember them.
Happy days (apart from the tongue biting incident of course)
In fairness, bed towns such as Caerphilly and Pontypridd are just as good, if not better, than living in the outer suburbs of Cardiff.
Speaking for Pontypridd:
Nice houses/decent houses/any bl**dy houses come a 100k - 150k plus cheaper.
Transport links.... a few stops on the train or a short drive by car/bus down the A470.
A cracking park for families, including a new, large children's play area and the outdoor swimming complex.
A large enough town for your needs (more facilities than you're likely to find in Radyr, Whitchurch, Tongwynlais and so on).
Contrary to Urban myths, towns such as Ponty do have nice areas ........ and there are some spectacular walks/cycling into the nearby countryside.
... oh ... and Cardiff when you need it
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