Is Manchester a tough place to live in?

I don’t understand why Dubai is as popular and rich as people think it is!

Last time I went in 1983 it was just vast desert.
 
Lavinda Past said:
True.
I honestly can't imagine anyone who has or earns enough money to leave the likes of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham etc, would want to live within 5 miles of the city centres.
There's a reason why all the wealthy businesspeople moved out of once posh areas like Victoria Park, Chorlton, Whalley Range, etc to leafy Cheshire in the early to mid 20th century.
The city of Manchester has been a magnet for thugs, ne'er do wells and lowlifes for over 100 years. It's well documented.
Very little has changed. It's just superficial.
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Little has changed and everything has changed, Manchester is now one of the most unequal cities to live in the UK. That is the price you pay under Capitalism and Conservative party policies.

Cities throughout the world have always been magnets for crime, they have always attracted people who are not as well off (lowlifes as you disgustingly describe them) who are looking for work and to better themselves. That is because the great cities have always thrived on an inwards flux of people, they are the future units of production needed to drive the economic engine.

There was a mass transit of people away from the centre centres in the late 40s , 50s and into the 60s because of slum clearances and the new social contract that built council housing on so called Overspill estates such as Wythenshawe, Handforth and others.

That trend is being reversed because our city centres are becoming gentrified. A terraced house in Rusholme can now command nearly £200,000, go to Chorlton and double that. Leafy suburbs are now becoming the home of the super wealthy, not just the averagely well off.

The Average price for dwellings in the city centre is now. Detached £431,892. Semi-detached. £177,436. Terraced. £240,329. Flat/Apartment. £221,331.

City centres are becoming the preserve of the wealthy because it is closer to work, closer to cultural amenities such as theatre, art galleries etc. The poor are being pushed towards the periphery, in London now those who live outside the M25 are in general not as well off as those who live in Kensington. The same is happening in Manchester with the M60. The Satellite towns of Greater Manchester outside the M60 are becoming poorer as the City centre booms.

I was out on Chapel Street in Salford on friday and the growth of the City centre is now taking over that area of Salford, it is new flats, apartments, cafe culture living, it is becoming like Didsbury, but closer to the City centre, Salford Central station has been revamped and is now a gateway to Deansgate, meanwhile in Salford even the likes of Ladywell have been rebuilt, the Regent Road corridor that used to have some of the worst housing in the UK is now smart and a good place to live because of Media City.

Your idea of Manchester is shaped in the past, notice i have not mentioned ADUG either, because the City centre and the inner city areas are getting better anyway, although they have helped with East Manchester of course.

The only place in Manchester now that is a real dump is where them cunts play, but deprivation still exists and pockets of Manchester has some of the worst poverty rates in Europe. Like I said everything has changed, but nothing has changed.
 
toffee balls said:
No, just proud of my city and will defend it to the core.
Move away , be happy not a problem with me.
The reason you are on this very forum is inseparable from Manchester so if you come an an open forum and gloat , I am going to ask you to show more respect.
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I can vouch for Mr Balls, he is in fact 13 not 12 :))

More importantly though, he is right.
 
toffee balls said:
No, just proud of my city and will defend it to the core.
Move away , be happy not a problem with me.
The reason you are on this very forum is inseparable from Manchester so if you come an an open forum and gloat , I am going to ask you to show more respect.
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You are genuinely funny.

I'm not gloating. I'm expressing my opinion that Manchester isn't a very nice place to live.

I respect your opinion on the place, you should respect mine.
 
WNRH said:
You left over 40 years ago and only come back to watch City?

A lot has changed since 1981 ffs.

And if you haven’t been back to visit apart from watching City, how can you comment on crime, restaurants etc? You’re still basing your opinion on the 1970s

It’s like me commenting on Port Vale’s prospects this season.

How is the Vicar of Dibley?
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I left 2 months ago, to move to Somerset. Have lived in Newton Heath all my life.
It is full of drugs and crime in Newton Heath. Had a mosque burnt down and a woman beaten to death with a candle stick at either end of my street. The place stinks of weed. There are stabbings, shootings, hit and runs all the time. This is a place where kids chuck bricks at cars for entertainment.
NH will always be home, but moving to Somerset is the best decision I have made, from a lifestyle perspective.
 
Rascal said:
Little has changed and everything has changed, Manchester is now one of the most unequal cities to live in the UK. That is the price you pay under Capitalism and Conservative party policies.

Cities throughout the world have always been magnets for crime, they have always attracted people who are not as well off (lowlifes as you disgustingly describe them) who are looking for work and to better themselves. That is because the great cities have always thrived on an inwards flux of people, they are the future units of production needed to drive the economic engine.

There was a mass transit of people away from the centre centres in the late 40s , 50s and into the 60s because of slum clearances and the new social contract that built council housing on so called Overspill estates such as Wythenshawe, Handforth and others.

That trend is being reversed because our city centres are becoming gentrified. A terraced house in Rusholme can now command nearly £200,000, go to Chorlton and double that. Leafy suburbs are now becoming the home of the super wealthy, not just the averagely well off.

The Average price for dwellings in the city centre is now. Detached £431,892. Semi-detached. £177,436. Terraced. £240,329. Flat/Apartment. £221,331.

City centres are becoming the preserve of the wealthy because it is closer to work, closer to cultural amenities such as theatre, art galleries etc. The poor are being pushed towards the periphery, in London now those who live outside the M25 are in general not as well off as those who live in Kensington. The same is happening in Manchester with the M60. The Satellite towns of Greater Manchester outside the M60 are becoming poorer as the City centre booms.

I was out on Chapel Street in Salford on friday and the growth of the City centre is now taking over that area of Salford, it is new flats, apartments, cafe culture living, it is becoming like Didsbury, but closer to the City centre, Salford Central station has been revamped and is now a gateway to Deansgate, meanwhile in Salford even the likes of Ladywell have been rebuilt, the Regent Road corridor that used to have some of the worst housing in the UK is now smart and a good place to live because of Media City.

Your idea of Manchester is shaped in the past, notice i have not mentioned ADUG either, because the City centre and the inner city areas are getting better anyway, although they have helped with East Manchester of course.

The only place in Manchester now that is a real dump is where them cunts play, but deprivation still exists and pockets of Manchester has some of the worst poverty rates in Europe. Like I said everything has changed, but nothing has changed.
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Have a look at house prices in Newton Heath, you are miles out.
 
Nightmare Walking said:
I left 2 months ago, to move to Somerset. Have lived in Newton Heath all my life.
It is full of drugs and crime in Newton Heath. Had a mosque burnt down and a woman beaten to death with a candle stick at either end of my street. The place stinks of weed. There are stabbings, shootings, hit and runs all the time. This is a place where kids chuck bricks at cars for entertainment.
NH will always be home, but moving to Somerset is the best decision I have made, from a lifestyle perspective.
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I bet it was that **** Colonel Mustard, he`s always been a wrongun.
 
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