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Mostly OT: what's Cambridge (and environs) like then?
In message <MPG.1afc0a0f14d3093d9896be@news.clara.net>,
Jon Senior
<jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk@?.?.invalid> writes
>chris French newspost-c-002@familyfrench.co.uk opined the
>following...
>> There is a possibility that my wife will change jobs to a
>> new post, working at Addenbrookes and Hinchinbrook(?)
>> hospitals in Cambridge and Huntingdon, so we might upping
>> stick from Yorkshire in a few months time.
>>
>> So anyway, what's it like down there?
>
>Flat.
This is what worries my, I do like my hills :-)
>
>Hope it all works out well.
She's in the envious position (though it doesn't feel like
that for her at the moment) of having more than one hospital
interested in her :-) As well as this post there is a post
coming up at her current hospital, and another potential one
at York. I'm just waiting to see how just all pans out.
>I may still have some routes noted down somewhere, and I
>know my parents have a book of cycle routes in the area, so
>let me know if you want more information.
May do thanks, but we aren't that far down the road yet
--
Chris French, Leeds
chris French <newspost-c-002@familyfrench.co.uk> wrote:
: well as this post there is a post coming up at her current
: hospital, and another potential one at York. I'm just
: waiting to see how just all pans out.
There you go then. Move to York. Jobs a good 'un.
Not that I'm biased or anything :)
--
Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org (http://www.clune.org/) "Technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook
In article <MPG.1afc727a7499a9439896bc@news.clara.net>, Jon Senior wrote:
>In article <jD+I8QCjZYkANwvJ@familyfrench.co.uk>, newspost-c-
>002 @familyfrench.co.uk says...
>> Ok, the on topic bit is that you can tell me about
>> cycling, but any comments are welcome :-)
>>
>> There is a possibility that my wife will change jobs to a
>> new post, working at Addenbrookes and Hinchinbrook(?)
>> hospitals in Cambridge and Huntingdon, so we might upping
>> stick from Yorkshire in a few months time.
>>
>> So anyway, what's it like down there?
>
>Further to my earlier comments:
>
>If your wife's work will be divided between the two
>hospitals, there are many pretty villages that lie roughly
>between the two. Get a map and look for stuff around the
>A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon. If you listen to the
>travel reports on R2 in the mornings, you should have some
>idea of how sh*t a road the A14 is
Is it ever not very ****? (I live in the opposite direction,
but did look at a house towards Huntingdon, and know people
who do live that way.)
Alan Braggins armb@chiark.greenend.org.uk opined the
following...
> Is it ever not very ****? (I live in the opposite
> direction, but did look at a house towards Huntingdon, and
> know people who do live that way.)
About 2am in the morning. Although it's still a nasty
stretch of road. Bad road surface and too narrow along most
of its length.
Jon
On 30 Apr 2004 14:44:09 GMT, wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom
(dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote:
>>Looks like one of the little villages just north of the
>>A14 will give a nice length commute each way without
>>having to use the major roads.
>>
>>..d
>
>Such little villages can be horrendously expensive to buy
>or rent a property
>in.
>
Cambridge & Environs is a little old fashioned when it comes
to property prices. City places will cost much euros but
prices fall as you move out to the villages. Once you get
into Fen country they're virtually giving it away (relative
to Cambridge). It's the usual pretty villages carrying
premium over inner city situation.
For cycling, head north-west; past Huntingdon and across the
A1. A bit far, I know. But west of Huntingdon & P'boro,
there's a not widely known slice of cyclist's paradise;
wide, empty roads, undulating gentle hills and agricultural
landscapes beyond compare.
If you like the Fens for their atmosphere and landscape(and
I do, in a peverse sort of way) then ride north north east.
But unless you like headwinds, endless straight roads,
flatness and headlands don't expect the actual cycling to be
up to much.
--
Transport & Urban Planning Blog
now at http://notonmywatch.blogs.com (http://notonmywatch.blogs.com/)
I would not recommend Cambridge to anyone who likes cycling,
walking, horse riding, etc. We moved away from Cambridge (to
the intersection of Staffordshire/Shropshire/Cheshire)
precisely because of that.
There's far more to life than money (especially if you end
up spending all the money on obscene housing costs)...
--
Peter Headland
In message
<f48af01d.0404301648.648c758d@posting.google.com>, Peter
Headland <PHeadland@actuate.com> writes
>There's far more to life than money (especially if you end
>up spending all the money on obscene housing costs)...
The decision has nothing to do with the money. My wife is a
Specialist Registrar, she has now completed her specialist
training, she now needs to look for a Consultant post, this
just happens to be one of the possible posts.
--
Chris French, Leeds
"chris French" <newspost-c-002@familyfrench.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MaOT6IWgw0kANwKd@familyfrench.co.uk...
> In message
> <f48af01d.0404301648.648c758d@posting.google.com>, Peter
> Headland <PHeadland@actuate.com> writes
> >There's far more to life than money (especially if you
> >end up spending all the money on obscene housing
> >costs)...
>
> The decision has nothing to do with the money. My wife is
> a Specialist Registrar, she has now completed her
> specialist training, she now needs to look for a
> Consultant post, this just happens to be one of the
> possible posts.
And with that in mind, I'd rather go to Cambridge than a lot
of other cities (mostly London...). If you want a supporting
vote, look how many people on uk.transport don't like it!
(although it is noticable that since moving to the dales, we
no longer feel the need to go away for weekends - I did
quite a lot of driving to get away from Cambridge).
York would still be my choice though.
cheers, clive
"Sarennah" <sarennah@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
<snippage>
> In Cambridge itself there are lots of people riding bikes,
> a proportion of which are cyclists.
And there I was thinking that all people who rode on bikes
were cyclists.
--
Akin
aknak at aksoto dot idps dot co dot uk
In message <c7031e$2ir$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, Clive George
>"chris French" <newspost-c-002@familyfrench.co.uk> wrote in
>message news:MaOT6IWgw0kANwKd@familyfrench.co.uk...
>> In message
>> <f48af01d.0404301648.648c758d@posting.google.com>, Peter
>> Headland <PHeadland@actuate.com> writes
>> >There's far more to life than money (especially if you
>> >end up spending all the money on obscene housing
>> >costs)...
>>
>> The decision has nothing to do with the money. My wife is
>> a Specialist Registrar, she has now completed her
>> specialist training, she now needs to look for a
>> Consultant post, this just happens to be one of the
>> possible posts.
>
>And with that in mind, I'd rather go to Cambridge than a
>lot of other cities (mostly London...). If you want a
>supporting vote, look how many people on uk.transport
>don't like it!
>
We've done the London thing, we won't be going back. Leeds
has been a nice place to live though.
>(although it is noticable that since moving to the dales,
>we no longer feel the need to go away for weekends - I did
>quite a lot of driving to get away from Cambridge).
>
>York would still be my choice though.
York is indeed nice (though I'd not want to be living to
near the river
- or in Malton), but the job isn't as good as the Leeds or
Cambridge jobs. The are many pros and cons, and much
depends on the exact details of the jobs, which are still
to be thrashed out.
--
Chris French, Leeds
In article <c70cn5$h1ui8$1@ID-18325.news.uni-berlin.de>, Sky Fly wrote:
>
>"Sarennah" <sarennah@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
>
><snippage>
>
>> In Cambridge itself there are lots of people riding
>> bikes, a proportion of which are cyclists.
>
>And there I was thinking that all people who rode on bikes
>were cyclists.
Me too, but some of the foreign language students are rather
unlike other cyclists. Three abreast the wrong way round a
roundabout for example.
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:56:25 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<outlook.bugs@microsoft.com> wrote:
>For those of limited means, though, a hamlet may be
>affordable...
I hope you're not suggesting that the poor be forced to
purchase hamlets and be denied residence in towns, suburbs
(leafy or otherwise) or cities.
James
"Sky Fly" <nobody@blackhole.com> wrote in message news:<c70cn5$h1ui8$1@ID-18325.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> "Sarennah" <sarennah@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
>
> <snippage>
>
> > In Cambridge itself there are lots of people riding
> > bikes, a proportion of which are cyclists.
>
> And there I was thinking that all people who rode on bikes
> were cyclists.
Ah. A cyclist being someone who uses the road in a similar
sense to that described in cyclecraft etc. Others being
people on bikes, of which there are many in Cambridge,
especially entering the centre of town at 8.50am (term
time or no). Still at least they are out there riding
their bike ....
Clear Skies Sarennah
David Martin <d.m.a.martin@dundee.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<BCB82386.13BF6%d.m.a.martin@dundee.ac.uk>...
> On 30/4/04 3:27 pm, in article
> MPG.1afc727a7499a9439896bc@news.clara.net, "Jon Senior"
> <jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > If your wife's work will be divided between the two
> > hospitals, there are many pretty villages that lie
> > roughly between the two. Get a map and look for stuff
> > around the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.
>
> Looks like one of the little villages just north of the
> A14 will give a nice length commute each way without
> having to use the major roads.
>
> ..d
Been there, done that. The cycle commute in Dry Drayton
etc - Over (10 miles to Cambridge, further to Addenbrookes)-
Longstanton - Oakington - Girton - Cambridge (Huntingdon
Road). Is probably the best cycloe route into Cambridge
itself - country lanes until the Huntingdon Road, which
is in possession of the best cycle lane in Cambridge IMHO
- truly it is nice and wide and smooth and not shared
with buses. BUT if you are travelling by car, the road
between Oakington and Longstanton always used to be
closed to cars (down side of old airfield, eventually to
be turned into housing estate, so may change/have
changed). And it is all fen.
The house prices when I was in Over were not as steep as
most in Cambridge - it seemed to be at the outer edge of the
commuter belt/Cambridge house prices. And in fact this
direction is usually not so pricey as South Cambridge. The
problem is more that houses may not come available often.
Also each village seemed to patronise a different one of the
local estate agents, so it is worth looking at several
agencies. Lots of new houses are being built in this area,
and the A14 is (eventually) going to be upgraded, a guided
bus put in etc.
Clear Skies Sarennah
In article
<5b5ff6e4.0405030051.3bdcf141@posting.google.com>,
sarennah@volcanomail.com says...
> and the A14 is (eventually) going to be upgraded,
You're kidding right? ;-)
> a guided bus put in etc.
This one is currently being fought by locals. The preferred
solution for many is to re-open the Huntindon - Cambridge
railway line, rather than to use a bus service that no-one
wants to operate.
Jon
James Hodson wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:56:25 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you
> know?" <outlook.bugs@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> For those of limited means, though, a hamlet may be
>> affordable...
>
> I hope you're not suggesting that the poor be forced to
> purchase hamlets and be denied residence in towns, suburbs
> (leafy or otherwise) or cities.
>
Why would you want a mandatory cigar smoking law for the
poor?
Cue: Air on a G String
Tony
James Hodson wrote:
> I hope you're not suggesting that the poor be forced to
> purchase hamlets and be denied residence in towns, suburbs
> (leafy or otherwise) or cities.
IRTA "helmets"...
Guy
Jon Senior <jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove> wrote in message news:<MPG.1afc4d5ae5660b549896b9@news.clara.net>...
> In article
> <5b5ff6e4.0404300256.42ac338a@posting.google.com>,
[snip]
> > I have a significant "inverse" hill in my commute (it
> > lies on the straight road between the A428 and
> > Comberton). Since Jon did the countryside so well, I'll
> > mention some of the more practical aspects.
>
> I'd forgotten that hill. It always formed a part of the
> "Cambridge Wheel" bike ride organised by Action Research
> (Is that still running?).
Far as I know. But the 50 miles round Cambridge dropped to
40 miles to the West of Cambridge (still advertised as the
50 mile) when I did it last in 1999... It's become more of a
sponsored/family ride I think.
[snip]
> I took my driving test in Cambridge and remember very
> clearly the paranoia at every junction or bend in the
> road, because the cyclists had a habit of sneaking up you.
> I'm glad to hear that they're still winding up the
> motorists though.
>
> Jon
Ah, but if they were winding up the motorists that would
imply some awareness of the effect of their actions on other
road users vs them getting from A to B as quickly as
possible. I find myself siding with the complaints of cagers
more often than not - hence my distinction between cyclists
and people on bikes.
Clear Skies Sarennah
Jon Senior <jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove> wrote in message news:<MPG.1b0018f0f1c646799896c8@news.clara.net>...
> In article
> <5b5ff6e4.0405030051.3bdcf141@posting.google.com>,
> sarennah@volcanomail.com says...
> > and the A14 is (eventually) going to be upgraded,
>
> You're kidding right? ;-)
You never know - it might one day be only as bad as any
other stretch of A road during rush hour.
Try googling CHUMMS. I've lost track since moving out of the
A14 corridor 3 years since.
> > a guided bus put in etc.
>
> This one is currently being fought by locals. The
> preferred solution for many is to re-open the Huntindon -
> Cambridge railway line, rather than to use a bus service
> that no-one wants to operate.
>
> Jon
Having lived there, it does not surprise me..... Clear
Skies Sarennah
chris French <newspost-c-002@familyfrench.co.uk> wrote:
: York is indeed nice (though I'd not want to be living to
: near the river
Local knowledge is a good thing if you do move to York.
There's bits near the river that don't flood and bits that
seem a way away that can...
Arthur (my house if halfway up a hill :)
--
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philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook
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