The City of Manchester: Why so shunned ?

[peoffrey]

I grew up there but moved on years ago because I felt I'd achieved everything I really wanted to. I only ever go back for City now and think just the occasional Wedding or Funeral would see me return voluntarily. Almost everyone from my circle growing up has seen their life take them elsewhere and those who have stayed have just been going through the same motions every day. More than anything, I see Manchester as being for the outsider these days. It's gone like London in terms of locals being seen and heard less and less because young professionals or Students have everything aimed towards them.

Manchester could do with more work opportunities, one huge area to go out socially in like Newcastle's Bigg Market or Birmingham's Broad Street (everything is spread out all over the place) and an improvement in Public Transport.

 

[BWTAC]

Manchester is wonderful, it has tits, fanny and Man City.

 

[laserblue]

London unarguably has more glitz and chic than Manchester but anyone who would turn down a megabucks top job in Manchester purely because it isn't London is a bit of a shallow tosser in my opinion. Think Posh Spice who was forever dragging the tattooed moneygrabber back down to London while he was at the rags and then the pair of them (undoubtedly more a result of her insistence than his) sacked off England completely and moved to LA.

By the way I thought Hazard preferred Chelsea because they won the Champs League. From what I remember they weren't even on his radar before then.

 

[Ovo]

Manchester is wonderful, it has tits, fanny and Man City.

That should be on a billboard

 

[wayne71]

Lived and worked in Manchester all my life, I think its pretty shit or maybe I'm just tired of it.

 

[GazC]

What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow.

 

[peoffrey]

London unarguably has more glitz and chic than Manchester but anyone who would turn down a megabucks top job in Manchester purely because it isn't London is a bit of a shallow tosser in my opinion. Think Posh Spice who was forever dragging the tattooed moneygrabber back down to London while he was at the rags and then the pair of them (undoubtedly more a result of her insistence than his) sacked off England completely and moved to LA.

By the way I thought Hazard preferred Chelsea because they won the Champs League. From what I remember they weren't even on his radar before then.

London has some extreme poverty and crime too. Some of last summer's riots in Tottenham and Croydon were horrific where innocent people were having their lives destroyed. It's not all red carpets and workers earning £100,000 a year. There's a very dark side to it.

 

[cockneycarparkm32]

town centre is pretty lame really as everything is geared towards student life . But you`d have to be a pretty unimaginative person not to find something to do if you have money . Starting to lose its identity these days with generic, bars,clubs,shops, and student accomodation going up everywhere . Shame as it used to be a shithole , but it was our shithole . Its more cosmopolitan like London but has brought all the bad aspects with it , everything is at a cost .

 

[goat boy]

What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow.

"Have you seen Manchester?" wrote Benjamin Disraeli in 1844. "Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens." And the writer Anthony Burgess, admittedly biased having been born in the city's Harpurhey district, recalled in his autobiography Little Wilson and Big God how, for a Mancunian, a visit to London before the second world war "was an exercise in condescension. London was a day behind Manchester in the arts, in commercial cunning, in economic philosophy".

Probably the greatest place on earth. Imho.

 

[laserblue]

London unarguably has more glitz and chic than Manchester but anyone who would turn down a megabucks top job in Manchester purely because it isn't London is a bit of a shallow tosser in my opinion. Think Posh Spice who was forever dragging the tattooed moneygrabber back down to London while he was at the rags and then the pair of them (undoubtedly more a result of her insistence than his) sacked off England completely and moved to LA.

By the way I thought Hazard preferred Chelsea because they won the Champs League. From what I remember they weren't even on his radar before then.

London has some extreme poverty and crime too. Some of last summer's riots in Tottenham and Croydon were horrific where innocent people were having their lives destroyed. It's not all red carpets and workers earning £100,000 a year. There's a very dark side to it.

True, but the point is these squillionaire types would never go within miles of shit rough districts like those. They'd just stick to the top end wealthy districts and none of this shit would remotely affect them. Parts of LA are as rough as fuck and far more dangerous than anywhere in London but the rich and famous still live there albeit in west LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, etc and nowhere near places like Watts, Compton and the barrios.