Manchester, Longsight or Victoria Park area

[MillicentMartha]

My 21 yo DS is just in the process of looking for a flat/house share in Manchester. He’s just about to start his first job in September and will be moving to Manchester very shortly. He’s been up there for a week looking at properties and has decided on one in this area. I’m a bit dubious about it, it’s above a shop in this area. I’m guessing from street view it’s a 1950s or 60s council estate with solid looking red brick houses and privet hedges. It might be lovely for all I know.

Has anyone any knowledge about the area? He’ll be working in the centre of Manchester so has pretty much no restrictions on where he lives.

Has he tried looking at flats in the city centre, try Castlefield and Ancoats areas ?

I grew up in longsight/levenshulme.
The area is an absolute dump, I would do anything I could to have my child not live there.

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But house share, double bedroom en-suite shower £450 , absolutely lovely area. Romiley Cheshire
5 mins walk to train station.into Manchester

You’ve all been very honest and made up his mind. I was copying posts and messaging him all yesterday evening. He’s got the really lovely but expensive house share on the Crescent, which looks great. Thank you all so much. I may have been over-reacting and MN can be quite black and white at times, but the other flat just gave me a bad feeling.

You probably weren’t overreacting, Longsight is pretty rough whereas the area around the Crescent has had a lot of investment in the last few years.
at the people suggesting Didsbury. In real life, there are Longsight budgets and Didsbury budgets. They don’t cross over, and it’s wasting your time to suggest that they do.

I dunno, there are a few surprisingly cheap options in Didsbury. £450 to £500 would be more than enough to live there, and that seems to be the budget here.

TBH OP any of the areas where people at your son's age and stage tend to cluster are going to have a higher than average rate of burglaries, muggings etc, purely because they're the sort of place that 21 year olds live in high numbers. And Didsbury and Chortlton, for all that they're more expensive to buy, don't have significantly lower crime rates than areas traditionally considered rougher. I think the area he's chosen seem fine, no worse than other options discussed anyway.