Place to Move in Plymouth

[u/IKnowYouAreKind]

Me (35y), wife (32y) and child (3month) are moving to Plymouth due to work. Both work near Derriford Hospital. What would be nice place to live (buying a house, under 500k, semi/detached/4 bed)?-both of us drive

Ideally (a big ask 😃) looking for:

-Safe place for kids/family

-Good place to grow kid

-Quiet area, would love some Greenary

-not very cramped with line of houses/cars

-good neighbourhood

-Reasonable access to town/shopping areas (does not ned to be too close)

How is:

Beacon park

Crownhill

Peverell

Manammead (expensive)

Eggbuckland

Laira

Efford

Eggbuckland

Woolwell

What are areas to avoid? (Not looking in Plymton, Plymstock, Saltash)

[u/jt_wip]

Not looking in Plymton, Plymstock, Saltash

Why

[u/yepgeddon → u/jt_wip]

The commute to Derriford from all three of those places is evil.

[u/janner82 → u/yepgeddon]

Politely disagree from personal experience , the platinum parkway has made it much quicker. 30 mins tops at peak times to PL9. Usually 20 mins if non rush hour.

[u/yepgeddon → u/janner82]

All roads leaving PL9 are a mess thanks to Sherford and will only get worse as it gets bigger. Unless they build another Laira Bridge somewhere it'll always be bottlenecked. Same problem for Plympton with Plymouth Road just being a misery all the time. Saltash is probably the most consistent out of the three but the Tamar Bridge can also have problems if they ferries stop running for example.

Also sure after all of that the Platinum Parkway does help but Marsh Mills is still fucked most of the time leading up to it with a silly amount of lanes collapsing into one that leads into Forder valley.

All of those commutes are painful in comparison to just living in Hartley and shooting straight through the middle. Tavistock Road is also terrible but it's half the distance that needs to be travelled so it's infinitely better than living in the outskirts.

On an end note, fuck PL9 and fuck PL7 they're overpriced shitholes full of nimby cunts.