Property News · September 16, 2016

Let’s move to Luton, Bedfordshire: it’s very connected


With many trains each hour to London and elsewhere, plus the airport, good schools and leafy areas, Luton is not to be sneered atWhat’s going for it? Luton, these days, can come with a sneer. We can blame Campari, of course, whose airport-related 1970s ad with Lorraine Chase made it OK to smirk knowingly at anyone non-U enough to pass through for Benidorm. Luton has since been a byword for non-aspiration, the kind of place George, rather than Mildred, would be content to end his days. A decade before, though, Luton was living the dream. The town still has remnants of its heyday, pleasant parks and avenues in the north, good schools, civic spirit in its carnival arts centre, though it can be buried under headlines about creative estate agents marketing flats as being in London, easyJet and Islamic radicalisation.The case against It is not the most aesthetically beautiful of spots (though there is beauty next door, thanks to the Chiltern Hills). Social and economic problems persist in chunks of the town. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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