To hate living in Manchester (and North in general)

[ILikeMilk]

Moved here four years ago to be with DH, and I still cannot get used to it. We are in a nicest area of Manchester, and it is still feels very provincial and boring. I dream about living in London, but DH does not want to look for a new job. I feel like there is no point and don?t want to decorate the house, make friends, etc, I just fantasise about being in London every single day. There is not much to do here, no nice streets or galleries, not much to do on the weekends as a family. I went to London this weekend, it was so painful to come back. Does anybody else feel this way?

Coolio, fb or msg me off to bed now after camomile tea as part of jan healthy living detox...will break it to go to Pub tho...can it be Chorlton/Ox Rd maybe?

Love dids but need excuse to escape ocassionally..

Brahahaha
o womma will you marry me?
i mean, like srsly?

(sorry, quick hijack)

5foot5 I have a deep and abiding hate for the hills in Macc after getting stuck on an awful lot of them whilst learning to drive. People hooting horns while I stalled and stalled...

Yes. HB: Chorlton's wilder veg-growing matted-hair cousin. Both fully part of the Muesli Belt.

We have NO Muesli Belt here in Stoke. Just unemployment.

Chorlton? CHORLTON Huh?

FFFFFFF SAKE?

No No No

We knot our own yoghurt and sprinkle organically raised sandals on our home-made soya-based yoghurt here.

Oh and we rescue a broken down ex racing greyhound per household.

And we always, always,take our canvas bags to the supermarket.

I will buy several rounds to the one who gets the final reference...

HB. My mum and dad's hippy mates used to live there. The ones my DH (back when he was boyf) boggled at when he first met them as he had never seen anyone with such a long beard in his life. Sheltered, my DH.

BM - final reference anything to do with a singly horned horse type thing? Though that's more Chorlton.

And can I just say to acumenin: you must be MUCH younger than me then

As for th first? Hmmph.

And the other reference

It's from Perth Australia if that helps. Not Chorlton.

'Dirty carrots' etc were the lunch carrying bag of choice at my previous place of employment. I had a National Trust one instead, due to my greater proximity to Dunham Massey.

we all lentil weaved

I'm still local - drinks would be good. Get a meet up thread going. You know you want to. I'd do it but it would die on its arse.

ILikeMilk Tue 11-Jan-11 13:16:12
Moved here four years ago to be with DH, and I still cannot get used to it. We are in a nicest area of Manchester, and it is still feels very provincial and boring. I dream about living in London, but DH does not want to look for a new job. I feel like there is no point and don?t want to decorate the house, make friends, etc, I just fantasise about being in London every single day. There is not much to do here, no nice streets or galleries, not much to do on the weekends as a family. I went to London this weekend, it was so painful to come back. Does anybody else feel this way?

Ditch him and come back to civilisation [smile}

Tim Minchin :o

And I love Hebden, affectionately known round our gaff as LaLa land (we're very near!)

We're not far from Hebden Bridge either, we love it.

Somehow can't see Op getting her Hunters dirty navigating Hardcastle Crags to be honest

Horses for courses I suppose.

I lived in Leeds for a while, whilst at Uni, and I cannot understand anyone settling there. There is a vast difference between the North and South and my heart is firmly in the South.

"There's a vast difference between the north and the South."

That's a huge generalisation! You cannot compare Leeds city centre (or Manc for that matter) to the beauty of The Dales or The Lake District. Nor for that matter, to Tatton, the parliamentary area just south of Manchester which includes Wilmslow and Alderley. Margaret, you do know that Mr Osborne's constituency is the second most affluent in the country sitting just behind Ken and Ch?

Well Margaret I cannot understand anybody willingly living in the South either. It's overcrowded, expensive and dull. Strangely the people who are trapped living there spout nonsense about how wonderful it is. Deluded imo.

There's a vast difference, the people are different, the food is different.....everything.

Northern.....I come from the country and so really can't agree that the South is overcrowded, even in the city centres we have gardens....unlike the 'back yard' to be found throughout Leeds. I'm not sure how you can say an area is 'dull' that includes our Capital city but ho hum. I couldn't bear to live in London either and find people who crap on about how great London is dull!! Where I live is perfect for me and my family.

ooh, is this evolving into a chorlton/northern quarter meet-up?

Well the DH would love us to relocate to Yorkshire. And it's lovely. I would go, I really would if MIL would relocate to London to maintain an appropriate distance of at least 200 miles between us.

ahh London - yes i often hanker for the green fields of Elephant & Castle!

I am up for a Alti/Hale meet up - maybe the OP can come along and we can get her blootered!

Margaret, I now live on the coast, close to Chichester. It is beautiful here, no doubt.

However, huge areas of The North as equally as beautiful. And people don't have 'yards' in Cheshire. What you describe is inner city. That format is the same wherever you are!

Must also add that I am, myself, a Southerner.
I think the OP is unhappy with her life and her marriage. It really has nothing to do with where she is living. She needs to sit down and talk to her DH rather than project the root of her unhappiness onto poor (or not so poor ) old Hale.

'poor' old Hale! monty

as a poster earlier up the thread said - i will gladly take her huge old house in Hale off her hands for a reduced price obviously due to the 'shithole' it is located!!