Gloom lifts on Manchester housing Market?

[ferret]

I do not understand your point. 'Manchester is some miles from London' I believe Shergar has been kidnapped too.....to quote Mr Rodney Marsh "whats your point"

The point being made is yes you can buy cheaper property in Manc but you do not have the high wages and the amount of facilities, shopping centres, museums and galleries etc that London has. There just is no way of comparing the two.

I don't think someone on £30-60k would have a better life in Manchester as there is not as much to see and do. Like AtW said, find a cheaper place out of the centre of London and commute in but still have the UK's capital and all that it offers on your doorstep. Would rather have that than a slightly bigger house and be in Manchester which does not have as much to offer as London does.

[r0bly0ns]

What's the point to compare living conditions in Manchester with London, which is, if I am not mistaken, around 4 hours by train? It would have made sense if you compared some place around M25 with living costs in London because it makes sense - people can live there and commute to work in London.

However people who live in Manchester are unlikely to do so, therefore the basis for comparison is inherently flawed - there is no point to compare it to London anymore than comparing to Tokyo. Indeed, why not real estate agents start showing how big UK houses are comparing them to Japanese houses? This would make a doghouse in London look huge!

That's a very good point AtW.

How does Manchester comapre to Tokyo?

The public need to know!

[DimPrawn]

The point being made is yes you can buy cheaper property in Manc but you do not have the high wages and the amount of facilities, shopping centres, museums and galleries etc that London has. There just is no way of comparing the two.

I don't think someone on £30-60k would have a better life in Manchester as there is not as much to see and do. Like AtW said, find a cheaper place out of the centre of London and commute in but still have the UK's capital and all that it offers on your doorstep. Would rather have that than a slightly bigger house and be in Manchester which does not have as much to offer as London does.

Nothing beats London for that filthy, overpriced, crime ridden, unfriendly ambience. That's true.

[chicane]

The point being made is yes you can buy cheaper property in Manc but you do not have the high wages and the amount of facilities, shopping centres, museums and galleries etc that London has. There just is no way of comparing the two.

drugs, deprivation and dirt

[AtW]

How does Manchester comapre to Tokyo?

Ummm lets see, maybe bullet trains are faster and more punctual than Japanese? Nah!

[sasguru]

Nothing beats London for that filthy, overpriced, crime ridden, unfriendly ambience. That's true.

Indeed. However I am selling my studio over the kebab shop in Hackney and will buy your mansion in Swindon and have money left over for a supercar.

[DimPrawn]

Indeed. However I am selling my studio over the kebab shop in Hackney and will buy your mansion in Swindon and have money left over for a supercar.

Swindon is a local town for local people. We'll have no metrosexuals here.

[milanbenes]

the nail in the coffin is this lads....

90% of people would rather put up with the south east estuary accent than the Manc/Liverpool conerbation accent

I could think of nothing worse than having to listen to the Manc or Liverpudlian accent all day long and in the pubs in the evening

Jeeeeez

Milan.

[snaw]

Nothing beats London for that filthy, overpriced, crime ridden, unfriendly ambience. That's true.

Yep, partially true - no dirtier from what I've seen than any of the other large British cities. Most definitely overpriced - but equally overpaid - I've still got more in my pocket after shelling out for overpriced everything than I would do living anywhere else in Britain, I feel safer here than I do in most British cities (All down to where you live, in every city). It is unfriendlier than every other city in Britain I'd grant you.

Equally it has more of everything than any other city in Britain. Cheaper flights, more clubs, more venues, more and best restaurants, best shopping, best looking/dressed women, better weather, more and best paid jobs and all round just plain more exciting.

Yeah people aren't as friendly and house prices are a joke but it has its plus points. And that's not in a London is the best city on earth kind of way, just my 2c (I can still think of a handful of cities in the world I'd rather live in, just no others in Britain).

[HRH]

Yeah that's better than before, but still my point stands - you'd have to be pretty crazy to commute from Manchester to London - you might as well live in Brum

1hr 40 mins on a train from macclesfield. I know people at my office who do 1hr 30 everyday....anyway that was not my point. My point was that you have a better quality of life in Manchester, something which you scoffed at.