British Expats - Manchester

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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- Moving back or to the UK (https://britishexpats.com/forum/moving-back-uk-61/)

- - Manchester (https://britishexpats.com/forum/moving-back-uk-61/manchester-621644/)

Thydney

Oct 16th 2009 7:31 am

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by Gordo Marshall (Post 7775562)

Manchester is currently full of empty one bed and studio apartments for rent. I would stick to city centre personally. Northern Quarter and Picadilly Basin good, Castlefield & Danesgate also good. Leafy suburbs in south Manchester (just south of city centre) are Didsbury / fallowfield - but pricey.

It's a renters market in Manchester at the moment. Move near Canal Street etc for a good party time, which is very near Picadilly railway station, Arndale Centre, city centre shops etc. Near Oxford Road, lots of trams and aqauatics centre and universities too.

Would personally think you are sticking to city centre in Manchester!

Upside: FABULOOOOSHHHH people - best in the UK I reckon!
downside - bit rainy & grey. Mooooody Manchester men at times! Never quite get that!

Just dont go there if you're bothered by homosexuals

GagainPEI

Oct 16th 2009 8:10 am

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by dboy (Post 8022266)

None. No doubt someone will be along to sort me out in a minute ;).

I like Uppermill (one of my closest friends lives there) personally and agree that the area around the top end of Mottram Road is good. I would look for smaller market town type places. Anywhere in Manchester proper is very samey - same 1950's housing estates, run down terraces and town centres with Weatherspoons, Comet, Top Shop etc, and oh yes, drunken riff raff and chavs.

I've corrected your spelling. The rest: Yawn.

johnh009

Oct 16th 2009 11:07 am

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by GagainPEI (Post 7804463)

I am sick of you "calling" Manchester. Will you please shut the hell up. If I was from Ducky then fine. But I'm not. There are wonderful parts & ugly but M/cr is a beautiful city that I was proud to work in for 38 years. Have you ever walked down from St Peters Square to The Law Courts. Have you ever walked in Back King Steet. Have you ever seen the Library. Been to the reguvernated Castlefield. I doubt it. I really wish that you & Rea would just bugger off.

There is an interesting point here. For those of us that have been out of the UK for a while, we may be surprised that to find that many of these old mining towns have been cleaned up and are now good places to live. There may still be a stigma attached to them in the UK though.

johnh009

Oct 16th 2009 11:13 am

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by dboy (Post 7804541)

Bit testy are we? No need to be rude ;). I lived there a good chunk of my life too and I'm entitled to my opinions. I still have all my family in the area and visit just about every other year.

Sorry, while there are some nicer bits in and around manchester, most of it is a shit hole. Yes I know King Street and the library - used to work at the Midland Hotel years ago - so yes know St Peters Square - there are some nice buildings etc but overall it not very inspiring. Oh and don't even get my started on the piss heads everywhere.

What did i expect posting on a heading back to blighty thread. Hope those rose tinted glasses are firmly attached, or happen they will fall off.

What about places such as Glossop in Derbyshire? After getting used to the commuting distances in North America, Manchester should be an easy commute.

triumphguy

Oct 16th 2009 11:28 am

Re: Manchester

After living in Wythenshawe til age 15 my family moved to Disley (on the A6 just before New Mills) A beautiful area, and great for just walking out into the greenspace. My brothers and I would cycle all round Derbyshire.

I used to commute by train from Disley to Picadilly every day and go to sixth form college in Moss Side!

Places like Bramhall, Alderly Edge, parts of Hale and Altrincham etc are also very nice. Even in Wythenshawe we weren't far from Wythy park, and used to play there as little kids by ourselves - you wouldn't get that nowadays!

I could live in Disley again, no problem!

dboy	Oct 16th 2009 4:18 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by johnh009 (Post 8022719)

What about places such as Glossop in Derbyshire? After getting used to the commuting distances in North America, Manchester should be an easy commute.

Yep those are the areas I am referring to when I say market town type places. Glossop is nice - not sure about the commute.

dboy	Oct 16th 2009 4:21 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by GagainPEI (Post 8022351)

I've corrected your spelling. The rest: Yawn.

Ah - didn't realize it was a spelling bee.....can't belive that you actually thought that was clever;) still doesn't change my opinion on the place - still a shit hole on the whole. Each to their own.

Canuck74

Oct 18th 2009 12:37 pm

Re: Manchester

What about Stockport? Was looking at upmystreet website the crime rate is low. How long of a commute to Manchester City Centre from there?

Jerseygirl

Oct 18th 2009 1:36 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by triumphguy (Post 8022742)

Places like Bramhall, Alderly Edge, parts of Hale and Altrincham etc are also very nice. Even in Wythenshawe we weren't far from Wythy park, and used to play there as little kids by ourselves - you wouldn't get that nowadays!

I could live in Disley again, no problem!

I would add Wilmslow, Prestbury, Hale Barns and Bowden to the above list.

Partially discharged

Oct 21st 2009 11:06 am

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by triumphguy (Post 8022742)

Hey triumph.

I was born in Disley, lived there until age 5 and then in Hayfield until age 17...family in Disley, New Mills, Birch Vale, Hayfield, Hawk Green, Marple, Glossop all that area.. One of the nicest areas within commutable distance of M/CR...many areas I wouldn't recommend in the greater M/CR conurbation.

dboy	Oct 23rd 2009 12:28 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by Canuck74 (Post 8026706)

What about Stockport? Was looking at upmystreet website the crime rate is low. How long of a commute to Manchester City Centre from there?

Very easy commute - pretty middle of the road place overall. Nothing special.

sunworshipper

Oct 30th 2009 11:30 am

Re: Manchester

I live in Stockport and most of it's fine. I personally would AVOID Longsight and surrounding areas

brits1

Oct 30th 2009 3:39 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by Thydney (Post 8022278)

Just dont go there if you're bothered by homosexuals

That's bad....it's a great night out....even my father who is 81 (sorry nearly 81) has a great time when my brother or his grandchildren take him to Canal Street....he even goes to the "Mardi Gra"....(gay festival) in Manchester with his partner....has been going for years....

brits1

Oct 30th 2009 3:55 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by Canuck74 (Post 8026706)

What about Stockport? Was looking at upmystreet website the crime rate is low. How long of a commute to Manchester City Centre from there?

Hi, Marple, Hazel Grove, Disley, some areas of the Heatons and Offerton, New Mills are good...the commute is good, trains serivces are regular and safe...oh and oorrr senial dementia now...forgot another nice area.....orrr this is gonna kill me........thank the gods....I remember....Wilmslow, Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall are very nice areas....Compstall and Mellor are nice quaint areas as well....all are near trains stations....don't know about you but after travelling the distances we do here in Aus....anything nowadays seems easier in the U.K to us now....okay not City centre driving but that is mostly the same the world over.....good luck...and I am definately one Mancunian who is very proud of their City......I may have seen some prettier, cleaner cities.(usually these are all fairly "new Cities"in comparison)..but Manchester still is home and it does have some wonderful things all of it's own....and is looking better each year as it ages.....

brits1

Oct 30th 2009 3:57 pm

Re: Manchester

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Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 8034935)

We use to go to the Jazz festival in Hayfield every year....honestly we had fantastic times there.....they call it the "little Venice".....went 3 years ago and still a lovely place to visit...scenery is so pretty.....

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