Where to buy a family home near Chorlton cum Hardy

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Hello, looking for advice on areas near or like Chorlton cum Hardy in Manchester. We’d love to buy in central Chorlton but can only afford something teeny. Suggestions for nearby alternatives welcome. Anyone know which bits of whalley range, stretford or Withington are nice?

Thanks!

Not seen that before namechanged - very funny. Whereabouts in Mcr are you?

South Trafford

😂 loving where I live being described as ‘gangster-land’.

Chorlton’s nice, lots of stuff going on, good schools and an incredibly easy commute on the trams into the city centre. You get lots of lovely properties in Stretford around Longford Park (Chorlton is walking distance so you can enjoy all the benefits!) and down next to Urmston. Urmston has a really strong sense of community and lots of green spaces.

£300k is a reasonable budget for a 3 bed semi in either of those areas .

I have no idea but I'd love to write that as my address!

Stretford or Urmston? Stretford has the metro but Urmston has a town centre. Prices in Stretford seem to be shooting up at the moment but nowhere near Chorlton prices

The staircase (ladder!!) in that Chorlton two-bed though!!

That house with the exposed staircase is awful - the oven at the bottom of the stairs must be a fire risk. I've lived in a house like that in terms of the steep stairs - they were original. If you were to buy it, you'd enclose the staircase again and reinstate the two separate downstairs rooms. Please.

Sorry, NightlyCircus, was thinking of the Noonans but to be fair that's a few years ago. Merseybank did have a bit of a reputation but if you live there you'll be able to tell the OP what it's like better than me.Sorry for maligning your neighbourhood!

I have never chosen to live in Chorlton but I can see its attraction. Middleton? Nah.

I think there has been a misunderstanding. I am not advocating Middleton as a place to live though there is nothing wrong with it. I am simply highlighting from a purely material position that one can have house A or house B and both of them are in areas where there are gas/water/electric and telephone supplies,shops,sreets,lighting,transport links.

I doubt anyone needed you to point that out though. I could probably buy ten houses on a street in some places for the price we paid for our house. Would I choose to? No.

Same as Xmas tablecloth

What does that mean @halfwitpicker?

Urmston is very nice, it has had a lot of bars and places to eat recently and it is good for schools etc.

I live in stretford, it is changing but could take a few years so maybe an investment house.

@Bishybarneybee No problems! The whole area has changed quite a bit, even in the time since I moved here (about 5 years). People like me priced out of central Chorlton