moving to manchester with family-needing urgent advice

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Hi, we are moving to manchester very soon and wanted some advice on a nice area to live. We are a young family with 2 kids (2 yrs old and 4 yrs old) so wanted a nice family friendly area with good primary school as my 4yr old boy will soon attend school. My husband will undertake a post at the University of Manchester so we wanted to have easy access to the university.
Please if you can give me some advice where to start from would be great
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Hi wowfudge

Yes, but the house is not ready yet! Maybe not ready for the move.

I will go back to manchester next week to look for some more properties.

For now I wanted to ask what you guys think about this property/area. I like the house, but I am not sure about the area. Looks like the house has railings on the windows. Is this a sign that the region is dangerous?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-50221463.html

It is sale, near a metro link stop Northern Moor.

I will definitely try to rent something for 6 months and then with more time try to find the right place or maybe buy for long term.

Thanks for your help!!!

Those aren't railings. It is just leading, a type of decoration.

I live in sale and it's lovely, but also work at the university.
Bus takes an hour, car 40 mins (at least) bike 30 mins
The tram is very handy but it's 15-20 mins walk to the university from town

Stretford or Chorlton or Whalley range will knock 20 mins off the car journey. Chorlton will be expensive as it's very trendy

This house is near Victoria Park in Stretford, good school nearby.
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-8082699.html

Unfortunately you'll have missed the application deadline and will be allocated a place wherever one is available (you can put a request in). You can then apply for a transfer. My neighbour did this and her little boy had to transfer just before Christmas, but it's all worked out ok.

Hi,

I'm from the Manchester area- currently living in London- 100% the best places to live are are Hale, Alderley and Wilmslow. These areas have AMAZING schools but are a good, easy commute to Manchester City.

Err this thread is two years old!!