Urgent advice/opinions on these suburbs of Manchester please

[selby]

Moving from the SW to Manchester. Opinions please on the areas of Boothstown, Monton, Stretford, Urmston & Worsley. Looking for excellent state primaries. More importantedly, what are these areas like in comparison to Altrincham/Wilmslow (where our preference would be if money was no object). Getting stressed because our rental budget which is a relatively generous £1.5K pcm will mean us downsizing considerably. Can stretch to £2K pcm (reluctantly cos it obviously impacts on our budget to buy 12 mths down the line). For comparison's sake, we like areas similar to Solihull in the West Midlands and it has to be SW Manchester! DH doesn't want to compromise house size (2000 sq ft) whereas I'm happy to compromise for a good location e.g walking distance to an excellent primary school. I'm begging for some expert local opinions on the above areas to show DH the error of his ways when he gets home tonight and strengthen my argument to live in/near Altrincham.

Gosh, thanks to all who have replied - will take a look at the list of local estate agents (thanks jojosmaman). We're planning to spend a few days in the next fortnight to check out/hopefully view houses in Knutsford, Wilmslow, Altrincham, Hale, Timperley & maybe even Sale. Decided to stick to SW Manchester cos DH will be using the airport frequently plus our families live in the Midlands so easy access to M6 would help.

From Manchester originally. The North side is cheaper, but has some rather nice areas - Whitefield in particular. Bury has good state schools (Whitefield would be in Bury for schools). Mind you, Trafford still has 11+ so good state grammar schools.

Update - we've finally found a lovely house to rent in Hale bang on budget after our first choice in Hale Barns fell through. Really happy with the location - 5 mins walk down the road to Hale Village (had a celebratory lunch at a great Italian restaurant there)and 10 mins walk in the other direction to Atrincham town centre. Next stress - late application for a primary school place!

Oh, Hale village is lovely, very nice.

Was the italian restaurant called Danilos?

Always wanted to try there but never got round to it.

Yes,DH had the chicken meatball pasta dish and it was delicious! Would definitely recommend it. Do you live nearby?

i went there years ago !

congrats on getting your house sorted

Selby I live in Timperley.
Took the kids to Hale for a meal and Danilos was packed, found out later that its so popular people queue up to get in as they don't book.
Ended up in Pizza Express which although a 'chainy' type thing rather than individual like Danilos, was really fantastic. lovely meal, great staff, we had a good night.
Where do you live?

Oppps ignore me, as dd would say 'der' lol just realised you're the op and live in Hale.

I came back to this thread looking for something else but just felt compelled to say to paddingtonbear; My sentence should have read,'poynton was cheaper but not much in it.' (meaning price difference between it and Bramhall) I was in no way putting down Poynton. Especially after all the good advice you gave me last year when we were looking to relocate. Moving to Wilmslow and the NW has been a fab decision!

Selby, I hope you found somewhere nice.