areas to live in Cardiff?

[LilMissHissyFit]

Good luck with it. Ive been wondering whether you'd decided either way
The studen acom/ campus doesnt seem to impact on the surrounds really. I worked there for a few years and the students tend to bus in and out of the campus/accomodation.
There is student accomodation at the city end of the park, the streets between the bottom of roath park and city rd - just so you can bear it in mind.
Betty lives in that general area she will be able to give you info I reckon

 

[davesgcr]

Good luck (was wondering about the saga)

Bound to be a need for some good Pooterish DIY - dont forget to visit the local Welsh dairy to get your butter orders in ....

 

[tiger feet]

Lady mary is quite a nice area within cardiff high catchment and ok price wise, near to a student campus in cyncoed but I'm reliably informed there is never any problems

 

[Gavin Bl]

Bound to be a need for some good Pooterish DIY

Paint your bath red guv'nor?

 

[nogojones]

I don't get this obsession with school catchments. Both my kids went to Fitzallen and have done fine there.

 

[davesgcr]

Get that footscraper fixed by Mr Farmerson and dont answer the door in your best suit and get coal blocks and cabbages thrust in your arms.


I love that book !!!!!

 

[Gavin Bl]

I don't get this obsession with school catchments. Both my kids went to Fitzallen and have done fine there.

Its more of an issue for my other half to be honest - as long as a school isn't a disaster area, I don't mind - I'd rather live in a nice place generally.

My wife is primarily focussed on Cardiff High as it is more mixed than some of the other schools - but its academic record is undoubtedly part of it.

What can I tell you, marriage is a compromise. well, I compromise

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I don't get this obsession with school catchments. Both my kids went to Fitzallen and have done fine there.

I know a parent who is really happy with Fitzallan.
I know a 6th former who spent one day there after moving house and refused to go back, shes now in.... Cantonian!!!
Horses for courses innit?
Lets be fair, if you had the money/other circumstances to allow you to choose wouldnt you? I think most people would

 

[Gavin Bl]

* bumps thread after period of time commensurate with a disastorous house sale slump *

Well, fingers crossed - we seem to be in the latter stages of a sale, and I'm desperately trying to find a job in Cardiff or Bristol.

We'd decided we liked the area near the top of Lakeside as a first choice to live - parks, good train links, countryside nearby, and good school too.

Spoke to the school and they said 'we're full - go away' (more or less), council said the same. So I'm glad I didn't broach the subject after moving there! Even if you live in the catchment, full is full, it seems.

While it would be 'nice' to have the kids in a really good school, its not a clincher - and I want them to be schooled in the area they live. So we might find ourselves looking more across the Birchgrove/Whitchurch area. It is cheaper, the houses are bigger too.

So basically it seems like we have to decide on an area, see if there are places at the school, apply, then get an actual place to live in. Ke-rrr-azy.