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The area I live in now Bournheath/Dodford/Belbroughton.. I hate it here.. can't wait to move.. it's in between Kidderminster and Bromsgrove.. It's full of people who work in Birmingham, bombing around the lanes like their backsides are on fire..  they are business people commuting into Birmingham..

I want to go back towards Droitwich.. House going on market in Sept.

I want to live somewhere where we will not be mown down by the latest 4x4..

I have lived in Worcestershire and been educated all my life (all 41 years), firstly in Hagley and then moving to Bromsgrove where my family originally came from. Hagley is a largish village but is now mainly commuter belt, houses are supremely expensive, but at least the roads infrastructure is good, a station which has trains to Birmingham or Worcester every 20 mins and a school system that is excellent (Haybridge consistently gets Ofsted outstanding reports, but is a bit of an exam factory), and my mum still lives there. Mum and Dad are Fairfield/Bournheath folk, and TBH I can't see any probs from living there, Bromsgrove is a nice middle of the road place to live, house prices slightly above average, with little crime (mainly anti social and petty theft) the town doesn't have much but Redditch is only 10mins away with the Kingfisher shopping centre, there are also plenty of satellite villages such as Catshill, The stokes (Prior/Heath and Pound)and Alvechurch, the big chemical factory at stoke works has closed down (I know i used to work there), Droitwich is lovely, Don't have any problems with Worcester. Most of the schooling in Worcestershire is good, If you really want to push the boat out and spend all your lottery millions you could look at Barnt Green and rub noses with football players and pop stars...Oh and nice friendly ambulancemen ;)

Jon

Quote: Originally posted by Janx on 26/7/2012

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Anyone live in this or surrounding area. I just would like to know what it's like living here and your views, possibly wouldn't be in a town would prefer a little more rural.

I would like to know the best and the worst about living here.

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