To adore manchester

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Aibu unreasonable to love Manchester and feel more settled here than my home country.

Moved here 20 years ago after coming from home country. So lived here longer than I lived there. I love the people, the accent and just feel so settled. Isn't it funny where you settle and begin to adore. I only came for 6 months. North west always gets a bad press on here!

Not that I've noticed anyone doing it yet but can we big an area of the UK up without the inevitable slide into slagging of London and Londoners for once please.

Moved from London and truly hate it. I had high hopes for it and it has completely let me down. around Piccadilly gardens has to be one of the most unsafe places in the country. I am left wing and it is a massive couture shock as Briton first and daily mail rule here.

It might sound shallow but I adore fashion and it's terrible here.
It's all very bad 90s with mini skirts and fake kors bags.

Love the northern quarter though. A lovely vibe. And the free city centre bus rules.

I,m from Bury in Greater Manchester and now live in Bolton have also lived in Salford ,Manchesters great ,yeah there are some rough parts but you would expect that with any city i,m sure there are rough parts of London too but i would never write off an entire city and its people I

you mean like the other very long thread capricorn where the op slagged off the whole of manchester and the north?

I live in Manchester and love it dearly. Just looking out of the window and it is raining

Foodtime, where do you live?! Chortling in South a Manchester has, I believe, the highest number of Guardian readers in the country! There's loads of cool fashion but you know it will have good and bad - the whole of London isn't setting trends. There's plenty of minis and Kors here too!

YABU!

well clearly the whole of manchester disagree with Milk pop off back to London now and let us mancunanians love our city.

Agreed, Manchester is ace. I've been living in south Manchester for 17 years and love it here. Wouldn't call myself a Mancunian but dcs definitely are and we won't be moving from here.
Foodtime - I don't know how you came to that conclusion about Piccadilly Gardens. It's mostly a bus hub but in the summer the gardens are buzzing with families and when the fountains are on on a hot day the atmosphere is is great.
"Briton first" and "Daily Mail" hahaha

Shantotto...presume you mean Chorlton😜😜😜
Deletes guardian app from phone

One of the things I lover about being in Manchester is its has more of a lefty vibe! Love the culture, the humour, the architecture (central Manchester reminds me of New York), great places to eat, fab museums, lots of lovely opens spaces close by, music fgs, amazings schools & universities, groups for anything you can think of. Football and more than anything the people.

Yes, it rains a lot.

Foodtime- Briton first-Daily Mail reader-not really anything to do with Manchester is it really? Other than you sound racist and Manchester is very multi cultural

It's been ages since I've had a Manchester Mumsnet meet up, we should arrange one soon.
I remember my first Manchester meet up, I brought a friend and she said "won't it be awkward not knowing anyone?" But it turned out I knew a MNer from my uni days and hadn't linked her with her username.
Last meet up I went to was in Sale, but we had a couple of great ones in Deansgate too.

YABU. I don't like it.

Came back to say that the rain is the only downside - it's bloody raining again today ☔️ ☔️

Yes please to a Manchester meet up. We live in Trafford and love it. Neither of us are from here but everyone very friendly and welcoming.

Don't get into the city centre as much as I used to but it's a great place to live

oh foodtime, don't be silly! :D

PleasantPhesant, your comment is the the type of nonsense I am talking about. What on earth are you going on about? Are you trying to say I am racist because I don't like the daily mail? You do know it's a pretty well known fact the daily mail promotes hate right? If I was racist I would be more likely to read it?

Or are you says no one reads the daily mail in Manchester and I hate it because I hate multiculturalism?

Lazylittle Gah yes! Excuse fast and furious typing - trying to post whilst toddler hits me in the leg with his toy hammer!

YANBU. But I currently live in a Manchester and hate it so much it's given me deoression.

The day I get back to my London roots will be the happiest day of my life.

A Sale mumsnet meet? Where was that?

I'm Manchester born and bred. Grew up in the days of the Hacienda and Manchester bands and it was such a fabulous place to be young.

Went away to Uni but drawn back like a moth to the flame.

Schools are great here in Trafford and the tram is handy. We're close to Wales, the Lakes and the Peak District for weekend breaks.

I just wish we had a more Mediterranean climate........

Foodtime whereabouts in Manchester did you live. I'm working class Mancunian born and bred and that doesn't sound like my city

I love the fact that Manchester is so diverse, loads going on in terms of music, sport, restaurants etc but still doesn't feel to big or busy, I love the mix of old and new architecture in the city centre, but mostly I love the people, they're what make it great.

Sale meet up was in the King's Ransom (well classy ). Seems we have a decent Trafford contingent as I know of a further 7 or 8 not on this thread yet.
Definitely worth a meet-up, I think I'll start a thread to that end.

I love Manchester and the NW as a whole. I miss living there so much that we come back (I'm not even originally from the area) almost every other weekend and have plans to move back in the next 3 years.

I love the Northern Quarter, the decently priced vintage shops, HOME, China Town, The Victoria Baths open days, the restaurant scene, The Whitworth, The Police Museum, the exciting new bands playing every night, the various festivals and parades, fantastic sports events, an hour to the Peak District, 2 to the depths of the lakes

I'm another one in Trafford I've spoken to gobolino before re buying houses (under a different name)
Im a Manc though and through grew up in Gorton but I've gone posh now and live in altrincham