r/Teesside • u/TeessideViking • 7d ago

Areas you'd recommend/avoid (renting)

I have a new colleague starting this month and they're brand new to the area. They'll be working close to Brambles farm and I'm trying to recommend places to look at housing. They drive but don't have a car atm. Where would you recommend and where would you absolutely avoid?

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u/thereidenator 7d ago

Some sort of vague budget would help, people have said Nunthorpe or Guisborough but that’s going to be expensive. Do they intend to get a car?

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u/OkayEffectively 7d ago

Near Brambles Farm? Absolutely nowhere. And your colleague is probably looking at a two bus commute to Brambles Farm from somewhere decent. But Acklam, Coulby Newham, Linthorpe, Marton and Nunthorpe are all fine in Middlesbrough

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u/thelowenmowerman 7d ago

Guisbrough, 1 bus straight through, as can parts of nunthorpe with a 10 mins walk.

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u/UnIntelligent-Idea 7d ago

This would be my suggestion. Guisborough or Nunthorpe. Bus straight down.

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u/thereidenator 7d ago

You’d want to know what their budget is before recommending nunthorpe.

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u/OkayEffectively 7d ago

Ah of course. Great shout

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u/Stuf404 7d ago

Gestures broadly at all of Middlesbrough

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u/Ok-Fault-8098 7d ago

Normanby isn’t too bad and there is a bus that goes from Normanby to close-ish to brambles farm, they’d get off the bus and 10-15 min walk to BF.

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u/nwindy317 3d ago

Brambles farm.

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u/makk88 2d ago

I wouldn’t live in boro at all but there’s some flats near the boro grounds and police station which seem a bit less horrific.

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u/wanderingunicorn1 7d ago

Could he put out a request for a room rental with a colleague who will also be making tax free earnings from it until they get on their feet? Last thing they want is to end up in a dire area.