by Captain Brittles » Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:50 pm
As there has already been a wandering off topic on this can I say a few things - with due respect to the previous comments about Cumbernauld.
We moved here 2 years ago and we love it, repeat love it.
Okay we don't live in a madly designed 1960's area but who's to blame for that ? The goverment and the CDC of the time - all civil servants - some of who may have been a touch too close to the architects. Cumbernauld was merely a 60's follow up of the madness of the Glasgow housing schemes of the 50's - albeit with out the tenements but it was the 'swinging sixties' remember, strange things were happening all over the country.
Where we live the area abounds with trees, shrubs and well kept grassy areas - the council really do an excellent job upkeeping it all. I can walk out my door into a park surrounded by forest, where deer, foxes, rabbits and squirells roam, I can walk to a loch and lochans in 10 minutes, my youngest kidz can get to school in 5 minutes and have to cross only one road. There is also noticeably a lot less vandalism compared to other places.
Where we live it is 20 mins drive to Striling, 15 to Falkirk, 15 to Glasgow city and 5 to the town centre - which in my opinion might look terrible but is actually not too bad inside and seems to have nearly all the services you'd need.
I can drive all around the town without being stopped at traffic lights, in fact I can drive to almost any big city in Britain without encountering them - right from my front door. I can drive 5 minutes and catch a train to Waverley, Queen St., Stirling, Perth, dundee, Aberdeen or Inverness. I get to the Kilsyth Hills and see Arran and Fife from the same spot in 15 minutes. A reliable bus service - 50 yards away - operates on a 15 minute timetable which takes about 25 minutes to the city.
Whats not in this town is not very far away.
On the minus side it doesn't have an A & E hospital .... and not enough pubs.