To be irritated by the Londoner exodus to my town?

[thesecondnamegame]

I've been priced out of my Greater Manchester town by the London diaspora. Anybody who knows the area will know which town I mean. My tatty council town centre terrace is worth 300k. A load of Londoners came up after the BBC moved to Manchester. Half the kids in my kid's school's parents are from London and they love to make sure you know that. House prices have become ridiculous and are in a different world to the rest of Greater Manchester. It's ridiculous as it used to be a very unremarkable market town (albiet with not much to it) and now it's gone all 'naice' and I'm having to move 10 miles away because it's reaching the surrounding towns and I simply cannot afford to live here and I want to buy a property. It annoys me, I keep imagining somebody who had a London salary and bought a house in London, sold it, and came up here and bought a house 3 times bigger for the same price as their smaller London home. It just seems like they cheated. There are no school places either, because a lot of the Londoner's chose this particular town for the schools. The catchments are bloody tiny, I know somebody who lives in a village about 4 miles away. The schools in this town are the closest schools. No school would take her child and she ended up having to home educate for months.

All my relatives who bought properties or private rented have had to leave, even those who went to uni and got great jobs.

I’d hate to move somewhere and think everyone hated me just for where I was born

The OP isn't 'everyone'.

Same here. If our landlord matches the rent when its reviewed we will have to leave and move further away.

Very unpleasant OP - fairly awful comments from some as well.
The living in Altrincham isn’t like living in Bolton suggests a level of snobbery usually only seen in well, places like Altrincham
North Manchester - well Bolton for example, offers beautiful open countryside, good schools and housing at a more affordable level than south Manchester.

As for the grammar school references. Bolton is entirely comprehensive.

Altrincham?

OP actually took on board people's comments and held her hands up about wrongly directing anger/resentment at Londoners. Acknowledging you got things wrong isn't something everyone would do and she has my respect. Later on in the thread she expressed her concerns about the wider issues of housing unaffordability, which is a problem that needs to be tackled.

@lotsofdogshere please don't tar us all with the same brush. The majority of people around here aren't snobs, not sure why the op has a bee in her bonnet.

@Tealightsandd

OP actually took on board people's comments and held her hands up about wrongly directing anger/resentment at Londoners. Acknowledging you got things wrong isn't something everyone would do and she has my respect. Later on in the thread she expressed her concerns about the wider issues of housing unaffordability, which is a problem that needs to be tackled.

Fair enough and well done OP. But one of those threads which makes you so incensed you cannot bring yourself to read any more of the OP's twaddle, gave up before the crap they were spouting was acknowledged

@Tealightsandd

I don't consider myself a Londoner or Scottish or anything else for that matter if pushed I guess as much as Id like to say Im a European and I would have to say Im British.

I sometimes describe myself as human on forms (under the nationality section).

OMG. You two are a statistician’s nightmare.

They're all flooding to Crickhowell, Abergavenny and Monmouth too. Locals are absolutely sick of it.

@Chunkymenrock

They're all flooding to Crickhowell, Abergavenny and Monmouth too. Locals are absolutely sick of it.

Gosh, I know. Imagine human beings living in dwellings.

Better get your parochial whinging in now before a visibly brown or audibly foreign one shows up.

@Chunkymenrock

They're all flooding to Crickhowell, Abergavenny and Monmouth too. Locals are absolutely sick of it.

Flooding, you say Good news for the umbrella sales there I guess.

Who is a 'local'? Born and bred? Should born and bred Londoners tell all the friendly 'locals' from Crickhowell, Abergavenny, and Monmouth, to stop 'flooding' into London?

Traffic works two ways.

With the exception of the Duke of Westminster and a few other landowners, your 'locals' do not own their village or town. Freedom of movement.

Sounds like a bit of sour grapes to me.People have to go where the jobs are,I expect a lot of them would have prefered to stay down south!

The League of Gentlemen.

People migrate to London from all over the Uk and the world too. Some of them are northerners

Four miles sounds a dream! Our local outstanding primary school's catchment was less than 200 meters!

@JassyRadlett

Yes, what kudos to being a Londoner??

Twenty quid says that the people ‘going on about being from London’ are answering the question ‘where are you from’ or ‘where was your kids’ last school’.

Totally

@Gingernan

Sounds like a bit of sour grapes to me.People have to go where the jobs are,I expect a lot of them would have prefered to stay down south!

Jealousy and prejudice due to their own insecurities.

Unbelievable! People are free to move to wherever they like, good on them if they’ve made enough equity in London (where they undoubtedly worked hard and long hours to be able to afford the horrendous house prices there ) to buy a bigger home elsewhere.

YABU.

And all the people who moved into London, from the Romans to the vikings, shouldn’t have been allowed here? I’ve come across lots of Mancunians who have bought property in London. Post Roman obvs.

@lotsofdogshere

Very unpleasant OP - fairly awful comments from some as well. The living in Altrincham isn’t like living in Bolton suggests a level of snobbery usually only seen in well, places like Altrincham North Manchester - well Bolton for example, offers beautiful open countryside, good schools and housing at a more affordable level than south Manchester. As for the grammar school references. Bolton is entirely comprehensive.

This was me- I live in and love North Manchester- but my point was you can’t start comparing house prices in Bolton to house prices in Altrincham and I still 100% stand by that!

Why everyone loves to hate on Londoners, we're the ones paying the most taxes and keeping your little towns afloat. London and the home counties are basically the bank for the rest of the country.

@sheridanstar

Why everyone loves to hate on Londoners, we're the ones paying the most taxes and keeping your little towns afloat. London and the home counties are basically the bank for the rest of the country.

Thank you very much for keeping my little town afloat, I'm ever so grateful. 🙄

What a load of condescending fucking rubbish.

Well if this thread proves nothing else, at least OP has well and truly shattered the “it’s friendlier up North” bollocks. The weather up there is crap as well. All that Pennines relief rain? No thanks! No wonder you lot are so bloody miserable. I’ll stay down south where it’s warmer and nobody resents me for existing.

Afflecks Palace is just a shit imitation of Camden Stables too.

Well if this thread proves nothing else, at least OP has well and truly shattered the “it’s friendlier up North” bollocks.

I'm going to keep saying this.... the OP is ONE person. Please don't judge all northerners by the same low standards.

@AngeloMysterioso

Well if this thread proves nothing else, at least OP has well and truly shattered the “it’s friendlier up North” bollocks. The weather up there is crap as well. All that Pennines relief rain? No thanks! No wonder you lot are so bloody miserable. I’ll stay down south where it’s warmer and nobody resents me for existing.

Afflecks Palace is just a shit imitation of Camden Stables too.

You just stay where you are then, petal.