I'm in Stapleford which is just in towards Notts from Long Eaton.
Long Eaton's mixed - some bits are really nice (the newer build bit out toward West Park has some really nice houses on it - the housing estate with all the roads named after types of coins), some of the bits further toward Sandiacre are a bit bleh... most of the schools I've always found OK (I do supply teaching so know lots of 'em) - couple of the ones with really nice kids in that I like are in Long Eaton for what that's worth. Technically it's in Derbyshire (well most of it is) but it's a bit confused because it's so close to the boundaries!
I like where we are - catchment for a good secondary, our neighbours are fab and it's got a decent selection of things like libraries and the like - only thing I'd change would be the whacking big hill back up to the house!
Possibly worth looking at where the new tram lines will be running if he works in the city centre - while the original tram runs through some "interesting" areas - the extension is going past some slightly nicer bits (I quite like Toton, obviously where I am in Stapleford, Chillwell's pretty nice too and they're all going to be hooked into the tram network when the extension gets built).
(Have never been able to stand West Bridgford - always seems hideously overpriced with no parking and they had massive problems with school place shortages this year - at one point there was muttering about them having to send kids over into The Meadows schools... you can imagine how that was viewed! In the end I think they put an extra class on in one of the schools to take the bulge.)
do you know the area where he'd be working? City centre or outskirts?
