Fleet
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- Fleet may also be used as a Fleet of ships.
Fleet is a tiny town in Hampshire, United Kingdom and tends to be a dormitory town serving London and Reading.
Fleet has one small shopping center, and a fairly remarkable music shop just off the High Road, but the highlight of the town is Fleet Services on the M3 - which when asked, is probably the most any driver has heard of Fleet.
There are a number of pubs there with some character, and even two small nightclubs. It has a lot of green, and is good for rambling, but beware that you have accidently walked into an army firing range!
However - at the end of the day, it can also be a very boring place to live, and with house prices not far different from London, you may as well live in our fair Capital.
[edit] Working in Fleet
Its local business parks seem to be a focus for many CAD companies serving the local military in Fleet, Aldershot, and Farnborough. Notably there are AutoDesk and PTC.
[edit] Travelling in Fleet
It has its own train station on the London-Basingstoke line. It also has bus services running to and from local towns, including Reading. The local bus company did go bust a few times, notably at the same time as the major plague of train accidents and strikes in early 2002 - where combined with large snow deposits, made travel in or out of the twon impossible or at least very unpleasant. Anyone who lived on the London-Basingstoke line will remember people being crammed into the guard-vans of the train after waiting 90 minutes, or being stuck between stations for what seemed like days.
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