How to find out if a GP surgery will actually take you
One phone call before you commit to an area tells you more than any rating. Here is what to ask, and why the nearest surgery is often not the one you can join.
Know before you move — schools, safety, prices, transport and more, from official UK data.
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One phone call before you commit to an area tells you more than any rating. Here is what to ask, and why the nearest surgery is often not the one you can join.
Distance to a school is easy to measure and tells you almost nothing. Here is what to check instead, and the one question that settles more than any rating.
Relocating somewhere you have no instinct for is the hardest version of this decision, because every shortcut people normally use depends on local knowledge you do not have. A method that works without it.
A rent is only high or low compared to something. Here is what the official average actually covers, why it is rarely the number you will be quoted, and the questions that matter more than the headline figure.
Everyone checks broadband. Almost nobody checks whether their phone works indoors — and it is the one you notice on day one. Here is how to check properly, and why a council-level figure is not the whole answer.
Finding a house takes an afternoon. Finding out what it is like to live there takes weeks, and most people never finish the job. That gap is the reason MoveCompass exists.
A bus stop four streets away is a transport link. So is a station running one train an hour. Here is how to check which services actually call near an address, and the three things nobody checks until after they have moved.
If the new place has no driveway, where you charge becomes a daily question. Here is what I would check about charging near a home before signing anything.