Most people here aren’t chavs, in fact, quite the opposite. Non of my friends are chavs, and you may see a few in the town centre, but then thats any town in the world! haha!
I think the person who wrote article this has obviously never left their little mansion in Ascot before

I have lived in some bad areas, and I can tell you now Bracknell is heaven! Love it here!

I think a lot of towns appear the same to anyone who doesn’t look for good and as the saying goes “it’s easy to criticise”.

Bracknell is the home to many large companies HQ’s so the people and jobs here are working and live close by, if not IN Bracknell.

I have never claimed benefits, have worked since I was 14 in a job of some sort and currently own a home in the Birch Hill area, and am currently looking to buy bigger – in Bracknell.
My current job frequently takes me from Bristol to Cambridge, and inside London and I rarely see anything that looks much different to the setup we have here, if not worse: less greenery, more crowds, higher house prices and nothing but towering flats everywhere! (I’m sure we only have one main tower of flats here, greater than 3 floors, away from the small town centre and that is a landmark -Point Royal which is famous!!)

The traffic here is fair, rush hours on main roads can be pretty painful, but flowing. When you are a local its fairly easy to avoid ..and where isn’t busy at rush hour nowadays?

M4 & M3 access is excellent, and back routes when these are bad are plentiful via Ascot, the A30 and Maidenhead.

I did my A-Levels but got put off doing a degree by “new” Labour (the icon of chavness in my opinion) and so worked for various large companies based in and around Bracknell (Hewlett Packard, Honeywell etc). Did an apprenticeship worked my way through some harder times and now earn much higher than average wage. And I was brought up in a single parent household where my mother struggled with us 3 and a mortgage.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that people in an area are bad because of the area, maybe they’d have been that way wherever they had grown up. I even think that sometimes cheaper areas are where the claimants are usually housed, and that could have a part to play here, as I find the mentality of the parents can easily influence their offsprings and that is everywhere.

All in all lots of areas of Bracknell come from a bad experience that is blown way out of proportion, like the shark attack thing when jaws was filmed. Basically, come and live in Bracknell, and give it a chance and you’ll have a normal time, hopefully good, but don’t have preconceived notions, as thats not fair on anything.

As far as I know the person whom this article was written by may be some unsociable, moany, unrealistic, molly coddled snob who moans about anything, or just having a bad week when this post was conceived.
Hopefully people are clever enough to know that one persons opinion are easily skewed from the truth by a single experience, be it positive or negative.

High property development in Bracknell shows how desirable to live here it is, and if the Olympics bid wasn’t received the town would be improved already. There just aren’t enough skilled over here to do the Olympics and other large projects for a fair price. it’ll come soon after the Olympics are finished – hopefully.

I think that a system that is making it nigh on impossible for younger workers to have kids and still afford a mortgage and live a good life, let alone get a mortgage at a young age’s wage, …then offering them a free house if they have kids, is to blame for the general condition in society. If you want a place of your own and not work hard for it – have a kid with any bloke who is stupid enough to do it. – viola! eradicate the impossibility of a wage buying the smallest house and the low earners can buy it and progress without claiming, instead of letting the entrepreneurs swallow them all up, then want more than mortgage payments to rent them from them – its a joke system really, c’mon

Wanna know a bad area? Norrey’s Avenue in Wokingham. Have at it.