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Living in Milton Keynes, England:
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If you've been wondering what it's like to live in or visit Milton Keynes, the Crowdsourced Explorer community can help. We asked six people living in Milton Keynes what someone who is considering moving to or visiting there should know. Here are their pros and cons, tips, and advice:

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Those considering moving to Milton Keynes should know include the below.
– Milton Keynes is a family orientated environment.
– It is the home to the UK’s first multiplex cinema.
– You are able to commute to London on the fast train or via the M1.
– There are 2 main universities around Milton Keynes.

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Afshan, says: 2020

Milton Keynes is a ‘New Town’ founded to accommodate population over-spill from ever-expanding London. It is characterised by a highly regular, segregated network of roads and cycle paths and is particularly famous for its many roundabouts. As a result, the town has a reputation for being devoid of character and somewhat soulless. However, the modern town incorporated numerous existing towns and villages, which still preserve the area’s rural history in their architecture, and ‘the city’, as locals term it, contains many picturesque parks and lakes which attest to the planner’s ambition to create a ‘city in the forest’.

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If moving to Milton Keynes know the amount of roundabouts in the city. Driving around is made easier by the dual carriageways and roundabouts. Traffic flows better and travelling around the city is quicker, however, if you are not used to roundabouts it can be a little daunting.

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Milton Keynes is famed for having the most roundabouts of any European city, and you will experience this as you drive along the roads as you first arrive. The city is also a perfect blend of concrete and greenery, with many parks where one can spend their days wandering and exploring. One will rarely get lost, as the architects got their inspiration from the layout of New York, and designed the city to be laid out in a grid system. Milton Keynes is only 50 miles from central London, making it perfect for anyone who needs to commute to the capital for work, with trains running between the cities on a routine basis.

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Milton Keynes was given New Town status in 1967 and, today, is home to more than 250,000 residents. It is conveniently at Junction 14 of the M1 motorway which is approximately 50 miles from London. However, a fast train service, taking just 34 minutes, to reach London Euston is widely available. Milton Keynes is a great place; I love it.

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Milton Keynes is a large town with multicultural background, a population of about 300,000 people. It is beautiful, very easy to get around and has lots of jobs due to a vast majority of companies. Milton Keynes has one of the more successful economies in the UK, ranked highly against a number of criteria.

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