What budget range for monthly rent? How many bedrooms?
One bedroom flats are proper expensive across Manchester and there isn’t a lot of choice. Most of them are poor quality and small for the expensive price, and there’s hardly any of them. Single people who aren’t wealthy aren’t catered for/are forgotten about when it comes to housing, and being a man you’d be bottom of the list for social housing.
If you’re looking at multiple-bedroom flats or houses and you have mate(s)/gf/missus to share the rent, your options increase dramatically.
Hulme is handy because it’s close to Town and fairly cheap but the area looks terrible as it’s just a hotch-potch of different styles of flats and houses with no thought gone into planning the area’s aesthetics.
Withington, Didsbury and Chorlton are all decent areas with their own village centres with loads going on. They’d be more expensive though. As would the Heatons and Cheadle but again they do have village centres.
There’s some new housing around the Miles Platting area. You’d be able to walk to work from there and it’s be cheaper than the ones just above.
City centre will probably have the most one bedroom options but they’ll be expensive for small size and plasterboard walls so you can hear next door shagging or arguing.
Further out of Town to the West North and East your options will be better price-wise.