OngarGuy said:Does anyone know what the area is like to live in, as I will soon be living their with my girlfriend.
It's about 2k away from clonee, Ongar is an actual village built on a former stud farm, from what I'm told it didn't exist 2 years ago.Unregistered said:Isn't Ongar just estate agent speak for Clonee?
Was in Ongar yesterday for a look and was plesently surprised that the village has everything you would want and wouldn't need to go into Blanch shopping centre (Bedlam at times), only for the cinema .Unregistered said:Ongar is quite a nice place, gym/schools/hospital close by and is fairly cosmopolitant as well.
Round Tuit said:you don't actually need to put anything more than your street address and Dublin 15 on the envelope . . . what I would worry about is traffic - if you work in Dublin city and plan to commute by car it will take almost 90mins on a bad day. The worst bit of the commute is actually getting out of Dublin 15. If you plan to commute by train the nearest train station is the Clonsilla Station which will be a decent walk from Ongar, and has no car park, and the residents close to the station are regularly reported in the local press protesting about the situation.
Fly said:I know a couple of people living there and the only complaint I ever heard was about the traffic. Having said that, I have noticed that house prices are stabilising if not falling in Ongar - maybe just due to the number of new houses being built.
Past30Now said:Agree with what is said above. My brother and his wife live there, she's on the road from 7 am to get into town before 9.
They've had no difficulties with neighbours and generally like the area. The biggest fault that they have is the design of their house, which is a four bedroom on three stories over a two bed apartment. If you figure out that you've left your mobile on the bedside locker as your getting into your car, then you've forty two steps up to your master bedroom and a further forty two back down. Parking is another issue that crops up from time to time (too many cars, not enough spaces).
Regards,
Past30Now
Fly said:Have no idea of the pricing of the new homes, but I presume one will affect the other.