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!

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To be fair I live in footballer land. So very much daily mail heaven.

Didsbury and cholton are where most of my friends live. Lovely areas but a hell of a lot of shall I say differeneing opinions.

I don't really mind the rain and it has amazing links and Like I said I love the northern quarter.

Even if you love your city you can still see that Piccadilly gardens is pretty grim. It has bouncers inside McDonald's and a EDL pub for gods sake.

Pressed post too soon but there are dozens more things I love and I don't even get to the warmth of the people. I am from Ireland and love how warm people are at home and I find the people in the NW just as warm and friendly (Liverpool the most so but Manchester is great for it too). I love hearing the different languages and trying a different type of food every night of the week if I feel like it, a lot of people talk about those types of things like they only happen in London but Manchester is a real multicultural hub.

I have never really felt at home anywhere else, the place sort of envelops anyone who shows it even a smidgen of love.
Like all big towns and cities there are problem areas and areas you would steer clear of but in general I feel safer in Manchester than in many other places.

I'd love to see big cities in the south east survive on the lack of funding cities the NW has faced for decades and see if they could still be a heavily arts based, creative, friendly, multicultural region like the north west.

YADNBU OP

I love Manchester so much, moved back up here just over 2 years ago after 5 years in London (i'm from NW originally and went to uni in Manchester). My quality of life and mental health is so much better up here, I love South Manchester, people are so friendly, have made some amazing friends since being back.

I feel for DH, who is London born and bred, as I know he does miss it there, but there's no way we could have a similar standard of living in London as we do here.

I'm here to stay now!

Of course YANBU, it's the greatest city in the country!

I don't live in Manchester but I absolutely love living in the north west. Manchester Liverpool both a short train ride away. The lakes on my doorstep. Ribble valley and lytham for days out near by and London is only a two hour train away if I ever really fancy it.

Don't turn this lovely thread into London bashing because of one experience at a bus stop!

I am often in Manchester for work, the people are friendly and the city centre has lots of places to eat shop and drink. But it has high levels of often brazen / violent crime too, gang activity and several massive and pretty rough estates that are no doubt less welcoming to incomers, based on what my colleagues who all live there say.

I grew up in Manchester, I now live a 45 minute train ride away so very close but don't get to go as much as I'd like.
I'm proud to be a Manc.
Yes it has its bad places but doesn't everywhere.

Fantastic night life, oh to be young again!

Moved here from a large town in Wales 12 years ago and I fucking love it!!! Best place and best people!

I am appalled.

When I first came to Australia and saw all the manchester signs in shops ( lower case, bedding, towels, etc.) I wondered WTF was going on. It's a city you numpties, I said.

THEN

I saw this thread and thought it was about antipodean bedding. I've lived in Oz too long.

Back on thread, I like Manchester back in the day. Fab place.

I am over in Saddleworth.

Love tib st, NQ, art gallery, dovestones, heaton park,

I live in saddleworth also. Where I live technically counts as Manchester though (greenfield)

I'm so miserable here as you can't walk to anywhere. I can certainly see why some like it though.

I just need more life and adventure.

Even when I live in didsbury I was miserable.

But Manchester isn't a bad place to live.

Love Manchester and Liverpool. Fantastic, vibrant cities, Lakes. the Pennines and North Wales on the doorstep. The people are the best thing about the NW though.

I only know it as a visitor (extended family live there) and I find the city centre grotty and rough. But lots of neighbourhoods are nice and I absolutely love the people, really warm and friendly. The relatives moved there from London with their kids years ago and they would never go back.

YADNBU. This city is wonderful!

Piccadilly 'gardens' could certainly do with a bit of love, but least safe in the country?! Not a chance.

YANBU OP. I'm from Yorkshire but my town is on the edge and joins with Lancashire. I would love to make the move to Manchester but I do like the fact that where I am there is tonnes of countryside on your doorstep and good access to Manchester/Leeds so think I'll stay put for now.

How do Manchester and Liverpool differ ?
I'm not in the UK obviously
They are both cities in the North West of England I know.

Whole family from Edinburgh. Spent early 60's as a child in the slums of Salford. Hated it! We moved back home. Now live in NW an hour away from Manchester. Love visiting, shopping etc.

Oldest Dd travels into Manchester with Dp and friends frequently. They love it. Youngest Dd lives in Hampshire. Military wife. Sil possibly getting promotion & posting to Manchester. They are both cock-a-hoop. It means she'll be living there.

Manchester gets our vote.

I love it so much!!! Can't believe I am leaving soon!

Waves at Gobolino I'm in Trafford too

Lived in both Manchester and Liverpool, both great cities. Settled in Manchester and am very happy here, we have a great sociable life but agree with a pp that Liverpool's waterfront is amazing.

food I know there are some idiots in Manchester as there will be in any big city but I don't think you can write off the whole city as racist daily mail readers. As another pp said I believe the newsagent on beech road in Chorlton sells more copies of the guardian than anywhere in the UK. My experience of Manchester (south) is actually that most people are very liberal and left leaning.

I do agree that pic gardens needs some work. It could be much better than it is. I think that area does let the city centre down as other parts are very nice. I could quite happily sit in St Peters square all day for example. Or look at the library.

YADNBU - it is a great city. I live a 30 minute train ride away in the glorious south pennine landscape which means I have the best of both worlds, stunning countryside and a vibrant city that really has everything you could want.

I have to give a shout out to Liverpool too which is starting to become my new hot favourite. Liverpool has a much more international/cosmopolitan buzz to it. There are parts of Liverpool that remind me of New York and others that make me feel as though I am in Dublin or even a continental European city. It's very cool.

To the person who ask the differences between Manchester and Liverpool. Whilst Manchester is very multicultura and vibrant, I agree with the above PP, Liverpool has a more cosmopolitan feel to it. There is a sophisticated edge to Liverpool which I think comes from being so historically important. The architecture is jaw dropping (it has more listed buildings than anywhere outside London) and there is a real electric buzz about the city. It has troubled areas along with all other cities but there is something about Liverpool, a certain something I can't put my finger on, that makes it an extremely special place. The people are the friendliest people I have come across. I cried for months when we left Liverpool, after Santiago it is my favourite city. My mental health has never been better than when we lived there, unfortunately my husband's job isn't available there. I would move back tomorrow but we are down south with visits to the NW twice a month and a likely move to Manchester in the future. In fact we are up in Manchester now and will spend the day in Liverpool tomorrow.