Milton Keynes is Britain's newest and largest town. It started life in the seventies and has grown rapidly to provide varied employment, leisure facilities and residential properties as well as a number of innovations such as the grid-like road system and redway cycle/footpath network.
The 'New City' of MK, as it's known, is one of about 30 towns bidding for city status in the year 2000, and this bid will be helped by the recently opened theatre, gallery, multiplex cinemas and indoor ski centre, X-Scape. Other sport and leisure facilities include the national hockey stadium, an ice hockey team, numerour swimming pools and leisure centres and parkland scattered throughout, such as Willen Lake with its Peace Pagoda, the Grand Union Canal and River Great Ouse. Unfotunately Milton Keynes doesn't have any major sports teams and there are frequently bids to attract top class football teams to the town.
Employment is scattered throughout the town and is not concentrated in the centre unlike traditional towns. The unemployment rate is among the lowest in the country and the train journey to London takes about 45 minutes, so it's convenient for commuters. Due to Milton Keynes' central location between London and Birmingham and Oxford and Cambridge there is a lot of distribution and high-tech work around but the pay can be rather low.
Housing varies significantly. Choices include terraced houses on Netherfield, a marina in adjacent Pairtree Bridge, semis on Greenleys, cottages in the quaint town of Stony Stratford and more abstract forms of accommodation. The architechture is also unique with each of the hundred of so estates having its own look and feel. Schools and local centres are never far away and shopping isn't a problem with the CMK Shopping Centre and district centres such as Wolverton, Westcroft and Kingston.
The town also has a lot of history such as the Cock and Bull story which originates from two hotels still in Stony Stratford High Street and the wartime code breaking at Bletchley Park. A number of archaelogical sites are incorporated into the town and artwork is scattered around, notably in the centre and Campbell Park. The most well known art piece is probably the concrete cows, but this is a single piece among hundreds in the New City.
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Advantages: Great for shopping, Great generally Disadvantages: If your over 30, you might get a little bored, but there is a lot of walking/cycling to do!
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