Manctopia on BBC2

feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
I don’t think affordable housing is on their agenda, I couldn’t believe it when they were doing the tour of a show home and being quoted £350k to live in Collyhurst. The locals are slowly being pushed out of the city.
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Won't be long before the City centre becomes a white elephant again and everything shuts down. The most interesting thing then will be watching the demolition of sky scrappers. These things like music and fashion tend to be cyclic.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
I don’t think affordable housing is on their agenda, I couldn’t believe it when they were doing the tour of a show home and being quoted £350k to live in Collyhurst. The locals are slowly being pushed out of the city.
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Let me guess, agents have extended the borders and Collyhurst is now part of the Northern Quarter..
 
350k is traditional London prices although you'd struggle for that in East End / South East London now. I won't even bother tormenting myself with what that'd get me in Wales or Herefordshire. A huge house with land no doubt.
 
Fuck it, I've had good times in Manchester but just can't live there again. City and a few friends is all that's left there for me. Gentrification has ruined London and will ruin Manchester too.

Posh cunts.
 
peoffrey said:
Fuck it, I've had good times in Manchester but just can't live there again. City and a few friends is all that's left there for me. Gentrification has ruined London and will ruin Manchester too.

Posh cunts.
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Your down on a great place mate. I am in Ancoats as we speak and a random bloke has gone past on his bike carrying a huge stereo. He is in his 50s and does it every day. It has a long way become it becomes gentrified - in fact Manchester never will be.

The mill in the programme by the way that was due to be ready in summer 2019 is still not ready and they are now saying June 2021.
 
worsleyweb said:
Your down on a great place mate. I am in Ancoats as we speak and a random bloke has gone past on his bike carrying a huge stereo. He is in his 50s and does it every day. It has a long way become it becomes gentrified - in fact Manchester never will be.

The mill in the programme by the way that was due to be ready in summer 2019 is still not ready and they are now saying June 2021.
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It will, mate. It happens gradually. I don't recognise the Manchester I moved to as a bright eyed student in 2000.

Manchester is the natural move after London.
 
peoffrey said:
It will, mate. It happens gradually. I don't recognise the Manchester I moved to as a bright eyed student in 2000.

Manchester is the natural move after London.
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I am currently walking from Ancoats to Piccadilly gardens. Feels about as ungentrified as anywhere could possibly be.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
20 minutes into this and I'm finding it hard to watch. Fucking disgusting people some of these property developers. The city would be better off without cunts like Tim Heatley.
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Can't believe he got permission to build apartments on my personal match day car park!
 
Norbiton said:
Last night's episode had a charity fundraiser organised by Vinnie and Andy Burnham but seemed to imply it was a bit of window dressing rather than tackling real problems. The lady defending the ADUG investment was brilliant, especially as she was actually being threatened with her own house being demolished as part of a different development. She was pointing out that ADUG had been building on waste ground and car parks to improve the area, she had no illusions about it also being money making, but nobody else was prepared to put the money in and she'd take it. The little researcher guy was dumbstruck. She also had a garden gnome with a City shirt, got to love her.
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She made some excellent points throughout last nights episode. Especially the point about not caring where the investment comes from as long as it makes the place better. Turning wasteland and car parks into new apartments is a good thing. Converting the old mills also a good thing. However, replacing perfectly good houses with new ones is purely about greed.
 
worsleyweb said:
I am currently walking from Ancoats to Piccadilly gardens. Feels about as ungentrified as anywhere could possibly be.
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Won't be knock in to people if you're on Bluemoon whilst walking?

I walked from the Ibis on Pollard Street to Cafe Metro in town on Sunday and there were developments everywhere. It's a gradual thing. Like many on here, I'm an average working class person and no longer identify with where I used to know.

As a non-Manc, I made a concerted effort to integrate and live somewhere regular. These people are being left behind for Toffs.
 
The flat/ apartment life in big cities is usually quite shallow and transient didnt see anything about the couple from Glasgow + new residents + reluctant chihuahua in the delayed apmts to suggest otherwise, although the chihuahua would bring a much needed hispanic influence to Piccadilly. So shallow compared with City Anne but as she said an improvement on deserted mills and car parks.
 
Another depressing episode. I looked all over the North of England for a home and everywhere looked more appealing (and affordable) than Manchester’s Ardwick View and Newton Heath Place.
 
peoffrey said:
It’s shocking, isn’t it? Manchester used to be such an independent and free thinking place. It’s going plastic.
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The bubble has to burst at some point. They always do. I remember after the last crash you could pick up an apartment in Beetham Tower for less then £100k.
 
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