Looking to move outside Cardiff - Areas to AVOID

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I'd go for Llantwit Major if you have kids as it's (generally) safe, quiet, rural, decent schools and infrastructure. A train every half hour to Cardiff (one via Bridgend) taking about 45 mins.

Price and location wise 100% Bridgend. A train every 15 minutes to Cardiff that only takes 20 minutes. The same going the other way to Swansea. Lots of shops and super cheap housing.

Source: Lived in both towns.

Llantwit is a great town , surfing , fishing , great coastal walks , a supermarket big enough to get everything you need , easy access to Cardiff by train , cheaper housing , along with st Athan than the rural vale which is pretty but very posh and expensive , a nearby industrial estate with mechanics .....I recommend Nathan at the original a and g , 788666 ......direct road to barry

Bridgend is spot on regarding housing , trains , motorway to Cardiff and west Wales as you say . Loads to do in Bridgend for families

Like barry its on the whole a good place to live

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I think Merthyr has left other valley towns such as Ponty in its wake with our leisure and shopping villages. The town has had a lot of investment the last decade, ironically from EU money even though we choose to leave Europe.

They're quite nice, but all a bit out-of town soulless. You could be anywhere

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Basically, by reading through this fred, buy anywhere, as long as it's not by a river.

[Hilts]

True the one in Ponty is rough and Aberdare!

You must go to posh places if you think Aberdare Weatherspoons is rough.😂😂😂

[Eric the Half a Bee]

You must go to posh places if you think Aberdare Weatherspoons is rough.������

Yes, it's not too bad. Less insane than Merthyr or Ponty.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Yes, it's not too bad. Less insane than Merthyr or Ponty.

Aberdare is a tough old town mind , knew some city fans from trecynon , they were useful body guards

Very quiet types

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Aberdare is a tough old town mind , knew some city fans from trecynon , they were useful body guards

Very quiet types

I'm from the Bridgend area, moved up here 10 years ago. I find Aberdare a safer place to go out to than Bridgend.

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Not a nice smell there in the summer though coming from the landfill site by that bypass.

I drive down that by-pass from dowlais top 2 op 3 times a day and I've never smelt anything in particular, good or bad, and I've been doing it in hot weather and now.

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Folks talking about Ponty, but what about llantrisant, church village? Are they classed as Ponty now? What are they like?
I've been going into Trefforest for the last week or so and it seems quite peaceful but I'm only there during they day. Is it really separate from Ponty or just more of the same?

I hope to buy a house in the next year or two and thought Caerphilly would be OK. My fist thought was Tongwynlais but I think it is catching up with Cardiff prices.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Folks talking about Ponty, but what about llantrisant, church village? Are they classed as Ponty now? What are they like?
I've been going into Trefforest for the last week or so and it seems quite peaceful but I'm only there during they day. Is it really separate from Ponty or just more of the same?

I hope to buy a house in the next year or two and thought Caerphilly would be OK. My fist thought was Tongwynlais but I think it is catching up with Cardiff prices.

I can understand Treforest being a part of Ponty, but not any further.

[J R Hartley]

I drive down that by-pass from dowlais top 2 op 3 times a day and I've never smelt anything in particular, good or bad, and I've been doing it in hot weather and now.

You need to get a covid test mate

[J R Hartley]

Yes, it's not too bad. Less insane than Merthyr or Ponty.

Merthyr Spoons is alright. Far worse places in town on Glebland Street.

[Rjk]

I can understand Treforest being a part of Ponty, but not any further.

Yeah I'd say Treforest is pretty much in Ponty, but it's also it's own area - very studenty round there.

Church Village and especially Llantrisant are definitely not Ponty

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You need to get a covid test mate

Joke is I get hundreds of them every day!!

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I'm from the Bridgend area, moved up here 10 years ago. I find Aberdare a safer place to go out to than Bridgend.

I wouldnt go out in bridgend unless it was to the old rock bar , which is now closed

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I wouldnt go out in bridgend unless it was to the old rock bar , which is now closed

I go to Bridgend for a haircut and that’s it these days.

Unless I’m fishing the ogmore

[Jordi Culé]

Yeah I'd say Treforest is pretty much in Ponty, but it's also it's own area - very studenty round there.

Church Village and especially Llantrisant are definitely not Ponty

Church Village is interesting. Some lovely properties and Cae Fadre plonked in the middle of it.

Entertaining place that estate, if you're a people watcher.

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I go to Bridgend for a haircut and that’s it these days.

Unless I’m fishing the ogmore

I used to fish the Ogmore but it never used to allow spinning till July, I am useless with the fly so I lost interest

[splott parker]

I used to fish the Ogmore but it never used to allow spinning till July, I am useless with the fly so I lost interest

I’m working in a decent part of Bridgend at the moment Sludge, Parkfields at the end of Angelton Road, very nice area.