St. Helens, Merseyside

merlot123

Why don't you go and visit? You may not want to live there to be honest once you have visited.

Very run down, high unemployment and generally not a place I would chose to move to.

Billinge, upholland, Rainhill are amongst the most desirable places.

TeamLowe

most of st Helens is deprived, but the areas mentioned above are nice as well as rainford. Newton le willows is I think technically st Helens and that's nice too, as long as you don't go for the roads named after trees or earlestown.

tbh I think people from st Helens will tell you it's nice but most other people won't and unless a new job is actually in st Helens I can't think of a good reason to move there, but then again my opinion is probably invalid being from wigan lol

johnnyl

TeamLowe wrote: »

tbh I think people from st Helens will tell you it's nice but most other people won't and unless a new job is actually in st Helens l

what jobs?

Working in one of our numerous pound shops or chinese buffets :rotfl:

merlot123

Wigan has its deprived areas to. I know I used to live there many years ago, friendly people, lovely pies but on the whole it's bit of a tip.

Op, where are you moving from? If its from somewhere like Hull, then St. Helens is an improvement, but only just.

poet123

merlot123 wrote: »

Wigan has its deprived areas to. I know I used to live there many years ago, friendly people, lovely pies but on the whole it's bit of a tip.

Op, where are you moving from? If its from somewhere like Hull, then St. Helens is an improvement, but only just.

Lots of my close friends and relatives live in Wigan (I live in Cheshire but we visit a lot) and personally I don't think that is a fair assessment.

Of the two towns Wigan is much nicer overall. It does have some deprived areas (which town doesn't?) but it also has some lovely areas and some nice properties for reasonable prices.

A_Couple_In_Love

We are from Stretford in Manchester and Blackpool.

We personally think that both areas that we are from, are both dumps.

If St Helens is no better, then we will pass.

Surly, theres some improvement compared to our original towns?

PS. We are looking more just outside of St Helens, so far we have came across Prescot and Clockface.

merlot123

poet123 wrote: »

Lots of my close friends and relatives live in Wigan (I live in Cheshire but we visit a lot) and personally I don't think that is a fair assessment.

Of the two towns Wigan is much nicer overall. It does have some deprived areas (which town doesn't?) but it also has some lovely areas and some nice properties for reasonable prices.

I lived there for 17 years, and personally I wouldn't return, we are all different and want different things from life, I want green spaces, a 20 min drive to a beach and independent market town shops.

It very much depends on which area you are visiting, I doubt you mean Bryn, Ashton, worsley menses, platt bridge and Hindley to name a few.

Wigan does have its lovely areas, Wrightington was one of the areas years ago I would have lived if I hadn't gone over the Pennines.

Saint_Chris

if your looking at moving to st helens, then i would say no to both the areas you have mentioned, you could try looking at rainford, billinge, eccleston, but would pay more for a house than one in clockface or prescot.

Most towns have no improvement all down to council cost cutting and high unemployment, in and around the northwest. How many highstreet stores are closing, and being replaced by pound shops.

Wigan doesn't appeal to me at all i agree with merlot123 wigan is a bit of a tip.....tha knows what tha means

poet123

merlot123 wrote: »

I lived there for 17 years, and personally I wouldn't return, we are all different and want different things from life, I want green spaces, a 20 min drive to a beach and independent market town shops.

It very much depends on which area you are visiting, I doubt you mean Bryn, Ashton, worsley menses, platt bridge and Hindley to name a few.

Wigan does have its lovely areas, Wrightington was one of the areas years ago I would have lived if I hadn't gone over the Pennines.

No, I don't mean most of the above, although Ashton is not too bad. I mean areas up around Wigan Infirmary, and Standish, Wrightington, Parbold. Standish is a thriving little community. All preferable to St Helens though in most respects.

pawsies

merlot123 wrote: »

Wigan has its deprived areas to. I know I used to live there many years ago, friendly people, lovely pies but on the whole it's bit of a tip.

Op, where are you moving from? If its from somewhere like Hull, then St. Helens is an improvement, but only just.

Oi! Haha.