What is Manchester to you?

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urban genie

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Are you a Mancunian? And if not what do you consider yourself to be?

Following on from the bee and badge thread and the what would improve Manchester thread, What do fellow blue mooners think Manchester is comprosed of? Just the place itself or the other areas? or do you consider the other towns Greater Manchester but not Itself Manchester.
Also what do you consider yourself? A Mancunian, or boltonian, stopfordian, Salfordian etc, or do you consider yourself both?

I ask because when people write are mentioning places like for example Worsley and Cheadle (and I don't mean this disrespectively to anyome from there), I don't think of them as Manchester, Greater Manchester yes, but not Manchester.

I have mates from place like Eccles, bredbury, Whitefield etc and some call themselves for example the people from bredbury one says he's a Manc, the other a Stockport lad, same goes for some others respectively. In fact one friend from Eccles gets annoyed whe I call it Salford, as far as she's concerned it's a place of it's own

My gran was dead proud to be from Duckinfield and Cheshire as it was where she was born and would correct anyone at being refered to as a Manc even though she lived just over half her life in Gorton and Bradford, I also remember when younger in te 80's mates from Salford who would get annoyed at being refered to as Mancunians, though that's changed as we have got older.

So what do you consider yourselves?
Boltotian, buryite, rochdilian, stopfordian, traffordonian, Ashtonian, Hydonian, salfordonian and whateved people from Oldham call themselves.

And are you from Lancashire, Gtr Manchester, Cheshire etc

Me I consider myself a Mancunian from Lancashire but also part of a group of similar great towns and cities in Greater Manchester.
 
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i consider myself a stopfordian/ stockport lad from cheadle., greater manchester and cheshire, but with a lot of links to manchester through family, uni, friends, work. i can see why people from cheadle say there from manchester though. lots of people including myself have family from manchester, and where I'm from its literally down the road from places like didsbury, burnage and cheadle itself is right on the border. theres also an overspill estate in cheadle.

id say salford and stockport have the most in common to manchester, being so close and both have similar accents. all the smaller towns arent manchester and your arent mancunian if your from say rochdale, but there are a lot of similarities between the different towns.
 
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The term manc was first coined by scousers in the 80s...as derogatory and derived from manky...it covered anyone from wigan to Wythenshawe regardless of accent. I don't use the term, mind you I'm ancoats born so should probably consider myself an Anc....
 
I'm from Marple- New Mills area so not really a proper Manc but I've lived in the city centre for a few years now so it feels like home.

I love the place but the gardens and market street needs sorting drastically.
 
I'm a Manc.
Raised a five minute walk from Maine Road.
The Irwell marked one boundary.
Cheetham Hill Road another.
Wythenshawe was as far south as it goes for me.
 
manctheknife said:
The term manc was first coined by scousers in the 80s...as derogatory and derived from manky...it covered anyone from wigan to Wythenshawe regardless of accent. I don't use the term, mind you I'm ancoats born so should probably consider myself an Anc....
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Wasn't it used prior to that in early reviews for corronation st in the 60's to describe the accent to viewers from other regions.
 
I was born in Manchester in the 60's, I consider myself to be a Mancunian from Lancashire. Not a Manc and definitely not from Greater Manchester.
 
I've been 4 times and only ever for footballing reasons - 3 times to Old Trafford and once to Etihad where Dean Ashton knocked you out the F.A Cup ! Wa hey.
Always had a soft spot for Manchester though, grew up obsessed with Oasis, which got me into other Manc bands to eventually loving all music. Like the Northern attitude to life and whilst we're all pretty much the same up and down the land, mancunians do have a bit of extra X factor about them.
 
I'm from inside the official Greater Manchester map, therefore, I am a Mancunian.

However, although I am proud of the fact, I dislike any associations in the media of "Mancs" being a Neanderthal race made in the image of Liam Gallagher mooching about in a pair of Gazellels, with mandatory Adidas top, bucket hat and clicking their fingers saying "top one mate, top one".

TOTAL CRINGE!
 
I'm from Pembrokeshire in South Wales originally so I'm not a Mancunian. I spent part of my childhood here, part of my young adult life here and now live here as a 37 year old. It's home but that's it.

What I do know are some absolute diamonds in terms of people. A decent crowd in the pub have welcomed me like an old friend. As have work colleagues. People always look to help me too.

I find locals modest, warm, sociable and passionate. They're not unlike the Welsh in that respect.
 
urban genie said:
Wasn't it used prior to that in early reviews for corronation st in the 60's to describe the accent to viewers from other regions.
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Mancunian perhaps.,,not manc. Besides which hardly anyone had a local accent in coronation st then, generic northern maybe.
 
The Silver Surfer said:
I'm from inside the official Greater Manchester map, therefore, I am a Mancunian.

However, although I am proud of the fact, I dislike any associations in the media of "Mancs" being a Neanderthal race made in the image of Liam Gallagher mooching about in a pair of Gazellels, with mandatory Adidas top, bucket hat and clicking their fingers saying "top one mate, top one".

TOTAL CRINGE!
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Ha ha, me too. Why does he talk like a bloody idiot? My Mum lived a good part of her life in Burnage and my brothers and sisters were born and brought up there, none talk the way he does.
 
I'm not a Manc. I lived in Saddleworth for about 4 years when I was a child and fell in love with the Mercer/Allison team at that time. I consider it a second home albeit that home is usually one of the very excellent Premier Inn's adjacent to the M60 that we use for most home games. I love the Manc humour, attitude and music. If I lived in England, it wouldn't be far from Manchester. Piccadilly could do with a good clean up though.
 
I have Adidas Gazelles, Adidas t-shirts and a tracksuit top, I own bucket hats (Wales, City) and I love the first two Oasis albums.

Some Manc Geeza pacing up and down on the spot in a Holts pub kept telling me I was a Manc and I kept reassuring him I wasn't. That would've made me English...
 
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Now living in Moorside, Oldham.
 
The Silver Surfer said:
I'm from inside the official Greater Manchester map, therefore, I am a Mancunian.

However, although I am proud of the fact, I dislike any associations in the media of "Mancs" being a Neanderthal race made in the image of Liam Gallagher mooching about in a pair of Gazellels, with mandatory Adidas top, bucket hat and clicking their fingers saying "top one mate, top one".

TOTAL CRINGE!
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When I away down south years ago my accent which is pretty strong got more milder, but this lad from Hale stared working in the bar, first day there came down simian strolling into the kitchen in a plastic manc accent "ee are kidder what for scan".
God I wanted to punch the fucker, and he was a rag.

Tbf though I wear adidas and parkas ans swear like a bastard, call people 'R kid' etc. it is as much mancunian culture as strong geordie accent and dialect is to them.
 
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peoffrey said:
I have Adidas Gazelles, Adidas t-shirts and a tracksuit top, I own bucket hats (Wales, City) and I love the first two Oasis albums.

Some Manc Geeza pacing up and down on the spot in a Holts pub kept telling me I was a Manc and I kept reassuring him I wasn't. That would've made me English...
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One could only wish.
 
normskih said:
Ha ha, me too. Why does he talk like a bloody idiot? My Mum lived a good part of her life in Burnage and my brothers and sisters were born and brought up there, none talk the way he does.
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i dont agree, plenty of people talk like that, not as strong maybe. my mum was brought up in levenshulme and lived in burnage swell and i know people from all over manchester that talk that way. its just a manc accent, but liam gallagehr exaggerates it a bit. depends on the area aswell, for example didsbury lots of people dont have the accent, go to the wythenshawe and its really strong.
 
I am a Glaswegian who lives in the east coast of Scotland, out in the country. I too admire the humour and abundance of moaning faced, sarcastic bastards on here, who I feel a certain empathy with as I am the same.

Even the posters who are polar opposite to me politically, put their case well, well as well as they can being totally deluded, but I enjoy the level of debate.

Through this place it is definitely somewhere I intend to visit, hopefully later this summer if time allows.

You also loaned my team Patrick Roberts and for that alone I thank you.

Although taking him back is a right ****.
 
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