Let’s move to Stroud, Gloucestershire: a spirited community in the Cotswolds

Yes, the green welly brigade is in evidence, but this market town is one of those rare spots in the countryside where Guardian readers can be out and proudWhat’s going for it? It’s not often one yearns to set eyes upon a concrete multistorey car park. But Stroud is a welcome corrective to most Cotswolds towns, which are a succession of cutie pies, all Country Casuals, antiques shops and unmuddied green wellies, like scoffing three boxes of Thorntons with The Waltons on loop.First of