Is Manchester a tough place to live in?

Moved to a town in Cheshire, no more traffic no more planes waking me up and I can leave my car unlocked. Still miss going into my local pubs or going into town though.
 
Marklr said:
The rainfall is just the same as the UK average. Shit. But there are other UK cities that are worse but don't get called "rainy"!
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Think this all harks back to a test match played at Old Trafford years ago.It rained on all five days,as it did in the rest of the country at that time.However the radio commentators moaned about it always raining in Manchester and as there was a large amount of interest in the match,these comments reached a large audience and the epithet stuck.
Or summat like that according to my old dad.
 
Rascal said:
Manchester is a tough place to live for some, it has some of the worst deprivation rates in the Europe, the streets are full of homeless people, their is a huge problem with crack, gang violence is rife, the housing is in a poor state of repair, the city centre is drab, income inequality is off the scale, I am sure on average we die younger, the transport system is shite, public services are becoming non existant and now run by charitable organisations. It can be cold, wet, miserable and when the sun comes out people stop and stare at it because we rarely see it.

As David Bumble Lloyd said , if you cant see the Pennines its raining, if you can its about to rain.

Would i want to live anywhere else, would I fuck, it is home to the greatest football in the world, it is the home of the industrial revolution, the city of radical politics, the place of Marx, Engels and Pankhurst, the TUC, the Labour movement, the Co-operative society. It is a place full of history, great museums, brilliant art galleries, fabulous music, amazing universities, world beating health researchers. For a smallish city we punch way above our weight. We have a world class airport, we have Lowry, the legacy of the Hacienda, great restaurants, brilliant pubs but most of all we have fantastic people with a sense of humour, a wicked biting sarcastic humour, yet we are warm and welcoming, friendly but reserved, tolerant and open, casual and carefree but hard working and caring.

The city could be better, the city could be worse, but I am more proud of being from Manchester , born in Salford than i am of being anything else.

If people don't like us or love our city then fuck em, fuck em all.
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Bravo mate.
 
Rascal said:
Manchester is a tough place to live for some, it has some of the worst deprivation rates in the Europe, the streets are full of homeless people, their is a huge problem with crack, gang violence is rife, the housing is in a poor state of repair, the city centre is drab, income inequality is off the scale, I am sure on average we die younger, the transport system is shite, public services are becoming non existant and now run by charitable organisations. It can be cold, wet, miserable and when the sun comes out people stop and stare at it because we rarely see it.
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But apart from all that . . . . . . . . .? Both my kids live in London. Gimme Manchester everyday!
 
It has got a lot of endearing qualities but having moved away 9 years ago I would struggle to move back.

Been down south 9 years now and coming back for the Everton match, my longest period without returning because of Covid, I could not get over the amount of litter on the streets. It was like people had given up or didn’t care. Also there seems to be a disproportionate number of anti-social people. Whether at the petrol station, in the pubs seems hard to avoid them.
 
Rascal said:
Manchester is a tough place to live for some, it has some of the worst deprivation rates in the Europe, the streets are full of homeless people, their is a huge problem with crack, gang violence is rife, the housing is in a poor state of repair, the city centre is drab, income inequality is off the scale, I am sure on average we die younger, the transport system is shite, public services are becoming non existant and now run by charitable organisations. It can be cold, wet, miserable and when the sun comes out people stop and stare at it because we rarely see it.

As David Bumble Lloyd said , if you cant see the Pennines its raining, if you can its about to rain.

Would i want to live anywhere else, would I fuck, it is home to the greatest football in the world, it is the home of the industrial revolution, the city of radical politics, the place of Marx, Engels and Pankhurst, the TUC, the Labour movement, the Co-operative society. It is a place full of history, great museums, brilliant art galleries, fabulous music, amazing universities, world beating health researchers. For a smallish city we punch way above our weight. We have a world class airport, we have Lowry, the legacy of the Hacienda, great restaurants, brilliant pubs but most of all we have fantastic people with a sense of humour, a wicked biting sarcastic humour, yet we are warm and welcoming, friendly but reserved, tolerant and open, casual and carefree but hard working and caring.

The city could be better, the city could be worse, but I am more proud of being from Manchester , born in Salford than i am of being anything else.

If people don't like us or love our city then fuck em, fuck em all.
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Sounds like your describing most cities in the Uk, I work in Manchester and people like yourself go way overboard with the homelessness and deprivation, it’s far worse in other places.
 
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