Manchester City Centre

[Kinkladze 1]

Not looking to blame yet your first post did just that.

What do you think is the cause?

 

[City Hobgoblin]

A lot of councils seem to have converted proper green and garden spaces into concrete areas.Probably because gardens need to be properly maintained and councils can't or won't pay for proper maintenance.

 

[Gaz76]

A lot of councils seem to have converted proper green and garden spaces into concrete areas.Probably because gardens need to be properly maintained and councils can't or won't pay for proper maintenance.

I'm not taking the side of the council but infairness they could point out that they built a new city centre park at Mayfield

 

[mr t]

There’s so many folk living with mental health issues and / or addictions of one type or another and a lot of them end up living permanently on the streets because they can’t beat their demons. A friend of mine used to volunteer but became disillusioned with it as people would be found places to stay but the places had strict no drink / drug’s policies in place and so a lot of them would end up on the streets again within days or weeks of them trying to turn their lives around. They felt as if they were pissing in the wind trying to help people so gave up their volunteering work.
I don’t know what the answer is cos even when homeless folk get help a large number of them find it really hard to get off the streets.

 

[chedlee]

City centre has plenty of green spaces although many are hidden you just have to know where they are!!

Sackville Street
Parsonage Gardens
Angel Meadow
Castlefield
Piccadilly Gardens (but I definitely wouldn't recommend it)
Freight Island
Ancoats(after a major refurbishment)

Those are the ones I can immediately think of

I used to work at the bottom of Deansgate and lunchtimes I would go to the canal basin or St Johns or Roman ruins. All got very busy when the sun came out - St Johns was ridiculous. Nice spaces though down that end.

 

[Eaststander1]

Was in Manc yesterday and unlike the match where I tend to bypass the centre, had a wonder from Oxford Road to Deansgate past the Midland hotel etc....Seems like the number of beggars/homeless on the streets is increasing by the month. It's almost every doorway. If I was a tourist visiting, I would think it was a bit of a shithole to be honest. Is it just the time we live in now? I used to give a bloke with a dog who sat near Oxford road station a bit of change when I worked in the City a few years back and he was the only one in that area. I must have passed 30 or more yesterday in a one mile stretch.

Its been getting progessively worse over the past decade with the beggars/homeless .... ever since the 'powers that be' said they weren't having it, and were gonna put plans into place to clear it up! And say the wrong thing to most of these characters, and things can turn ugly in a second!

Knife crime has increased massively, ever since the 'powers that be' said they weren't gonna stand for it, and were gonna 'stop it in its tracks' !

I live in the city centre and there are violent incidents galore in Piccadilly, and in the rest of the city centre, which again have gotten far worse ... with the only cast iron certainties being that the CCTV is generally a waste of time and money, and that the coppers won't be anywhere near any of them when they happen anyway!

 

[mexico1970]

I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I hate it now and avoid it whenever possible.

 

[MCFCTrick]

I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I hate it now and avoid it whenever possible.

I am exactly the same. When I do have to return, I can't wait to get away again. It wasn't idyllic back in 'my' day of late 70's/80's, but felt cleaner, and much less threatening than today.

 

[mexico1970]

I am exactly the same. When I do have to return, I can't wait to get away again. It wasn't idyllic back in 'my' day of late 70's/80's, but felt cleaner, and much less threatening than today.

It's the filth and squalor that gets me, intermixed with that you have a shed load of middle class hoorays popping into bars that have graffiti inside and out.

It's like they are pretending to be poor, poverty tourism if you will.

 

[mayo31]

What do you think is the cause?

You have quoted a post I did nearly 8 years ago

So let me think….

 

[kippax_blueboy]

I am sick of it. Just keep clearing them until they stop
Tough love so they sort their lives out.

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Sadly now as ugly a city centre you will see, city planners should be made to live there.
As a kid, town, always looked scruffy as fuck from the top deck of a bus - dirty, walls capped off with broken bottles, wondering if the Irwell would be green or red that week etc.
Only now as a foc can I appreciate it's historic raw, red brick industrial bones, might be shinier now but it's fugly.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I worked in the northern quarter for years.

Post Covid I hated going back into the city centre. It stresses me out and I felt trapped.

Thankfully I don’t work in the city anymore and only ever go to Manchester on matchdays, and even then it’s only for a pint in Ancoats and then to the Etihad. The idea of a night out in Manchester would fill me with horror. I hardly ever even go to gigs in Manchester anymore, would much rather go to a quieter out of town venue, somewhere like the Hebden Bridge Trades Club.

Cities are constantly changing and are for the young. I loved going out to all the bars and clubs 10-15 years ago, now I’m 37 I spend my free time in the countryside.

Only thing I miss is rice and three and Panchos haha