My Sister is Moving to Greater Manchester

jimc_2

lynzpower wrote: »

:wave: hello fellow northwesterners

............. now in handforth/ wilmslow ish way.

SNAP!

Like everywhere, good and bad bits. Your Sister should visit first.

From our house (near a shopping centre), the open fields and woods are only 100 yards away! Also the area's biggest Tesco and Marks & Spencer (Handforth Dean) are within walking distance if you want!

loveandlight

posted by jimc
Your Sister should visit first.

She will visit - now she knows where to go!

DarkKnight28

Totally agree!!

I used to live in Birmingham for 20 years, but moved to Manchester 10 years ago. If you take a city as having 20 suburbs (like Paris' arrondissements) then my experience househunting says Bham had 12-15 good areas, whilst Manchester is more like 5-8!

having been a travelling sales rep (so I get about a bit!) and having lived in 4 different parts of Manchester, I would agree - edge towards the South - Sale, Urmston, Cheadle Hulme, Hale, and Prestcih/Whitefield is *ok* in the North.

Forget the Eastern side and most of the North, and frankly most of Manchester is good for road networks although the M60 gets very heavy around j18 (north), j 8-12 (sale-eccles) and around j1 (stockport) so bear that in mind.

I'm looking at the moment and favouring either Sale/Urmston/Cheadle, or bizarrely Bolton (more for your money) and looking to pay £250k ish for a 3 bed.

Good luck!!

lynzpower

Cheadle much better than urmston IMO, there was someone on here not that long ago talking about quite a lot of ASB in urmston. Certainly last time I was there found it all a bit "run down" . sale OK, especially if you want to be close to the grammar schools sale is excellent ( family members went there)

anniestar

Well I had to stick my beak in! I live in Urmston and it isn't to my taste. However I will try to be objective for the OPs sake. Well in the price range you could get some very nice houses BUT........Like Linz said there ARE "problem areas"(mainly Flixton-although there are some stunning houses that have no trouble at all) Urmston town centre looks like a bomb site at the moment but to be fair(goes against the grain as I HATE Urmston with a vengance) they are totally rebuilding it. There is a huge Sainsburys due to open in March. Loads of new shops and it should much better. There are links to town(mainline railway station)good bus links and its only a short hop to the Metro (Stretford or Eccles).
As for the schools......Well the answer is it depends. I work as a tutor in Trafford and its fair to say there are some "good schools":rotfl: I wouldn't send a slug to. Be warned.. Also DH is working as a supply teacher having worked "properly (IYSWIM) for Bury, Rochdale and Trafford:eek: and has also covered Stockport and Tameside:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: .Please feel free to PM me for any inside info/general dont touch with a barge pole.
To be honest if I had to live anywhere in Trafford again it would be in Sale. Decent shopping centre and the most fantastic vet(and a rubbish one as well!)and again fantastic links.
Good luck to oyur sister. A xx
edit: there is a totally FANTASTIC chippy in Urmston-one of the few good things about it!

webitha

word of warning



avoid wythenshawe like the plague

Zammo

I'm sure if she avoids the more "vibrant" areas she'll be fine.