LGBT Mums Moving to Manchester

[CyclingIsFun22]

Hi there!!

My partner and I are moving to Manchester, but aren’t sure where to move to. We don’t want our children to stick out for being the only child with two same sex parents !!

We want somewhere we can cycle, safe, some nice cars and cafes and good transport links. We want our children to roam free and have a very outdoorsy upbringing. We might be asking for too much for all of this to be combined - but you can hope.

We are looking at Chorlton (top top of our price range), west Didsbury, Heaton moor / Mersey or Marple.

Does anyone have any advice of which one we should move to? We’ve spent a lot of time in chorlton with friends but know we wouldn’t be able to afford a big house if we lived there but know it’s very edgy. Bit stuck - any advice is great :)

Chorlton is very gay friendly and has been forever. Three of my schoolfriends had lesbian mums in the 90s. If it's too out of your price range now you can try the other side of the water park, in Sale. That's where a lot of Chorltonians have moved to who can't afford Hebden Bridge. Sale boasts the world's oldest gay rugby club, if I recall rightly.

Living along the Ees/ Water Park/Meadows, either side is a good way to give kids outdoorsy lives in the city. The inner side of the M60 is the more expensive and bougie, and the outer side is a bit more affordable and has fewer hand painted coffee shops, but the green spaces are all connected up -- look on the map. Mancunians think Sale and Chorltonville are two different worlds because of how you get around Manc, but in reality they are next to each other.

Or just move out to Todmorden, it's 20 minutes into Victoria, houses are cheap, and it's full of lesbians. Rammed. Depends where you're working really, though if you're considering Chorlton and Marple this can't be a constraining consideration?