Moving to Manchester

ivavoucher

Angela_D_3 said:

Urmston/Flixton are like beruit ... flithy dirty inner city dumps 

Most areas have both good and bad parts.
Perhaps if you are on a limited budget and you are looking to reside in a expensive area you are forced to look in the poorer parts of an area. I suspect this is why some have such a poor opinion of Flixton /Urmston
 There are parts of Hale that are not great.

The former mill town fast becoming one of Greater Manchester's trendiest and most sought-after places to live - Manchester Evening News

Rambosmum

Angela_D_3 said:

Arent too bad arent really the words you want to hear when it comes to where your children will spend the most important 7 years of their lives.  

Ok,, to be more specific - there are some excellent schools in Bury both in ofsted rating and local reputation  and there are some poor ones. As in most areas. Including large swathes of Cheshire. 

morvin777

GN2020 said:

morvin777 said:

I have come across an opportunity in Ashton-under-Lyne in the next 6 months. We would be relocating from Bradford.
Having done our research: Altrincham, Saleq  and areas in Trafford, Didsbury are the best in terms of school but quite overpriced.

We are looking for a nice area in terms of school for our LO but also making sure my commute is not more than 30 minutes as I understand M60 is a nightmare at rush hour. Looking for a spacious house as we think this could be our forever home. Budget between 300k-500k (we may have to rent for 6-12 months to get a bigger deposit if nice area and we go over the above budget). Need good public transport links as partner does not drive.

Ps. Have looked at Mossley in Tameside. Been told to avoid Oldham, Stalybridge and Ashton-under-lyne. 

Please provide your helpful suggestions on areas and your views on commuting longer than 30 minutes.

Mossley is lovely and Greenfield in Saddleworth as well. Both have train stations going into Manchester City Centre via the train station in Ashton under Lyne. 

I’m sure you’ll be able to find something in your price range in any of those areas.
Do you need a driveway or would you be happy with on street parking? 

Driveway would be nice. Are schools in Mossley nice? They all have good or outstanding rating on Ofsted.
Whats the journey like in Manchester on public transport as my partner does not drive?

Thanks everyone for the helpful comments.

tigerlily74

In greater Manchester it’s always easy to get into Manchester itself on public transport, but not across/around it (say from Bolton to Wigan, you have to go in and out, it takes an age). What about the Worsley area?

Morrigan_2020

Mossley, Saddleworth, or some parts of Stalybridge are nice, the bits on the way to Glossop.  Don't go all the way to Glossop though its a traffic nightmare. 

A lot of people are suggesting areas which will involve commuting round the M60, trust me you don't want to do that unless you will be travelling outside of rush hour or really enjoy sitting in your car not moving. 

Angela_D_3

The problem you have with Manchester is even if a good school is on your doorstep its so densely populated your first choice isn’t guaranteed and it tends to ho downhill quite rapidly.  

Just taking where we moved to for example there is an outstanding - great fingers crossed we get it - but plan B and C are good so it wouldn’t be the end of the world,  i dont know how street wise your kids are but some of the ones we drove past were like gettos.  Rough AF 

tigerlily74

Morrigan_2020 said:

Mossley, Saddleworth, or some parts of Stalybridge are nice, the bits on the way to Glossop.  Don't go all the way to Glossop though its a traffic nightmare. 

A lot of people are suggesting areas which will involve commuting round the M60, trust me you don't want to do that unless you will be travelling outside of rush hour or really enjoy sitting in your car not moving. 

I second this suggestion in terms of ease of commute to Ashton. I have no idea what the areas/schools are like but it always looks nice to drive through!

GN2020

morvin777 said:

GN2020 said:

morvin777 said:

I have come across an opportunity in Ashton-under-Lyne in the next 6 months. We would be relocating from Bradford.
Having done our research: Altrincham, Saleq  and areas in Trafford, Didsbury are the best in terms of school but quite overpriced.

We are looking for a nice area in terms of school for our LO but also making sure my commute is not more than 30 minutes as I understand M60 is a nightmare at rush hour. Looking for a spacious house as we think this could be our forever home. Budget between 300k-500k (we may have to rent for 6-12 months to get a bigger deposit if nice area and we go over the above budget). Need good public transport links as partner does not drive.

Ps. Have looked at Mossley in Tameside. Been told to avoid Oldham, Stalybridge and Ashton-under-lyne. 

Please provide your helpful suggestions on areas and your views on commuting longer than 30 minutes.

Mossley is lovely and Greenfield in Saddleworth as well. Both have train stations going into Manchester City Centre via the train station in Ashton under Lyne. 

I’m sure you’ll be able to find something in your price range in any of those areas.
Do you need a driveway or would you be happy with on street parking? 

Driveway would be nice. Are schools in Mossley nice? They all have good or outstanding rating on Ofsted.
Whats the journey like in Manchester on public transport as my partner does not drive?

Thanks everyone for the helpful comments.

With your budget, I don’t see you’d have a problem with getting a house with a driveway. 

Stockport Road in Mossley have some gorgeous houses and the view is spectacular, if you see any there they’ll be well worth looking at. 

How far would your partner want to walk to the train station? Some are a 10 minute walk is all and I know that would put some people off. 

I don’t have children so I can’t help with the school side unfortunately but the secondary school called Mossley Hollins is a very new school and it looks superb. 

The train journey from greenfield or Mossley to Ashton takes about 15 minutes, about 30 minutes to the city centre and they run every hour. 

Rambosmum

Morrigan_2020 said:

Mossley, Saddleworth, or some parts of Stalybridge are nice, the bits on the way to Glossop.  Don't go all the way to Glossop though its a traffic nightmare. 

A lot of people are suggesting areas which will involve commuting round the M60, trust me you don't want to do that unless you will be travelling outside of rush hour or really enjoy sitting in your car not moving. 

It depends on flow of traffic - for example, going TO Bolton from Prestwich in the AM and home form Bolton to Prestwich is a none issue. Going from Didsbury to Oldham in the AM and returning in the PM is also fine, however going from Bolton to work in Manchester is terrible, as is going from Oldham towards Didsbury. So Prestwich to Ashton would be fine, the other way around definitely not. It all depends on flow of traffic (I have done all 3 journeys stated as my commute).  

Getting in and out of Manchester city centre is great on public transport - most places have the tram but the bus network is also pretty good. A few places are still on railway lines, and they are extremely congested (COVID not withstanding). Wanting to go around the city, so Prestwich to Ashton or Worsley to Stockport is less easy. 

Morrigan_2020

In a lot of areas the worst part of the commute is the queue to get onto the M60!