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[s]The Lakes[/s], the West Pennines, the Pennines and the Dales.
Sorry no. Stavely is within an hour of South Manchester.
Pennines? Meh, why do you want open, windy moorland?
The only thing going for North Manchester is stone construction. I don't like brick.
South Manchester offers you access to anywhere you want. Lakes & Peaks.
Plus what sort of social life would you have living in a village mentality?
I come from the Outlane area originally and it was Saddleworth/Outlane or SManchester. I chose right. Maybe I'll retire up there but a car can get me anywhere I want and keep me happy the 90% of the time with the rest of my life.
Life is more than living 'where I can ride a bike in my spare time'.
Oh yeah... forgot to mention that. Hora lives in south Manchester
Is the North starting to sound more appealing, all of a sudden 😀
If I lived in rural/North of Manchester I'd probably end up attending swinger parties, screw the Milkmans 60yr old wife and become an alcoholic.
At least here all I have to do is avoid getting shot.
South of manchester? who would want to live that far south?.
If quality secondry schools are a priority then i'd recommend Wilmslow as the secondry school there is outstanding as are practically all of the primary schools.
Yes is is expensive and can be a bit 'cheshire set' with a few too many orange faced people but they can be easily ignored.... i've managed it for the last 8 years anyway.
Its got great rail links, 15 mins into Manc and less than 2 hrs to London if thats important to you plus all the great riding spots of the peaks are about 25min drive away.
TJ its posh (innit).
Plus we missed each other, (HTN) - you shot off to Stockport leaving me at the Alta 🙁
Sorry 'bout that Hora. Next time
Sorry no. Stavely is within an hour of South Manchester.
Staveley as in Wheelbase/Wilf's? An hour? What are you driving, a ****ing rocketship?
New Mills (where I am now) is 80 miles from Lancaster (where I used to live) and the journey is a consistent 80-90 mins. Plus a further 20-30 mins to Staveley.
New Mills is nice enough, it's got most things you need day to day, 2 train stations going to Buxton, Manchester and Sheffield, easy access to the Peaks and North Wales. Marple is nice too, the Strines area and again, easy access to Manc by train.
Born and bred in Poynton (well, born in Glossop, but moved when I was still an ickle baby).
Whoever said that Poynton is a suburb of Stockport best not say that out loud in Poynton, you'll get beaten with a Louis Vuitton handbag and kicked in by a pair of Ugg boots 🙂
Poynton/Cheadle/Cheadle Hulme/Disley/Woodford/Bramhall/Gatley are all reasonably affluent suburbs full of professional types. Hazel Grove/Heald Green/High Lane/Woodsmoor/Great Moor similar, but slightly less affluent generally (and some might say less up themselves).
Wilmslow/Alderly Edge/Prestbury are pure footballer-ville, mix of old money and new pretension.
Commuting along the A6 could indeed be included as one of Dante's circles of hell, but generally you wouldn't have to as they all have direct rail links into Manchester.
Macclesfield used to be in a 1984 timewarp, but I drove through recently and it seems to have dragged itself into the early 2000s. More of a rural feel.
All however, are populated by open, cheerful and friendly people. I didn't realise quite how much this was the case until I moved away to the miserable south and now really notice the difference on trips back up to the Motherland. I'd move back tomorrow.
Always head west a bit..
Can vouch for Sandiway...
5 Mins and yer on the M56.
5 Mins yer on the M6
Pretty spot on IMHO..
Late to this thread but.... WHY would anybody VOLUNTARILY live in south Manchester?
Seriously stay well clear of North Manchester. It's full of racists with incomprehensible accents whose idea of fun is going out of a Friday night to a dour and dimly lit pub to drink pints of flat, room temperature mild whilst watching old men put ferrets in their trousers followed by glassing anyone who used any word over 2 syllables in length, then sparking their hobnail boots on the cobbled streets all the way home to beat their wives before getting up and going for another day "downt pit".
South Manchester on the other hand is a Nirvana like metropolis of sophistication and class with its café culture, good looking residents, plethora of world cuisines on offer and general air of enlightenment.
BTW this has mostly been done before...
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/people-of-manchesterwhere-to-live
Lived in Prestbury before moving o/s. Would recommend Macc, my sister went to Kings School and she has done well for herself. All my family are from Timperley and Altrincham - good transport (Metrolink and access to airport) - worth a look
Blimey, this has kicked off a bit.
To just clarify our priorities a little further...
- Industrial heritage not important
- Ditto period charm - we want a nice roomy, warm post-war house
- We like suburbs or market towns, not cities or villages
- Wife's family live in Bryn (nr Wigan), so handy if not too far from there
- Likely to work in Manc centre, Cheshire or Salford Quays (or at home)
- Unlikely to commute by car (bike instead, train for wife)
- Easy access to/from London would be a bonus
- Rivington was nice, but the Peaks has got to be better, eh?
Should also add that I currently live in a crappy dormitory town near the M25 - so I'm not looking for the moon-on-a-stick, just somewhere nice to settle down.
Any of the South Manc places mentioned above will tick those boxes
I'd say after a dormitory town near the M25, anywhere up here will feel like Nirvana.
To be honest, with the budget you've got and the areas you're looking at, you can't go wrong.
When you looking at making the big move fella?
And to be fair to Rivington, that day we rode it, you didn't see it at its best. There are at least 2 days a year when the sun actually comes out 😉
http://newsmanc.co.uk/2012/02/05/news-panic-engulfs-trendy-south-manchester-suburbs/
Scarily accurate view, there 😉
Based on your above definitive criteria, you definatley need to be looking around Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. I'd even pin point in down to Acre Lane area. Honestly. That would be my recommendation 🙂
ps. Marple isn't a village. Neither is Hazel Grove. They might have been once but so was everywhere (except Milton Keynes).
nbt - nice 😀
Agree with Monksie, that's a good spot. Perfectly located for a nip out to the Bottle Stop, as mentioned above. I'd say Poynton/higher Poynton is worth a look too, despite this new road layout/lack of paint on the road. It has rail access, very quick on a bike to the hills via Lyme Park. I'd reckon that'd be a cracking location given what you have stated. Not sure of Schooling though.
Just remembered, the A6 relief road finally got the green light late last year. It joins up with the A34 out toward Cheadle Hulme/ Bramhall'ish.
That may or may not have an effect on your prospective move but it would come up on your pre purchase search wouldn't it?
Am I the only person round here who doesn't dislike riding a bike on the A6?
As for Stockport being flat? The only flat way out of the town is via the River Mersey.
When you looking at making the big move fella?
Hoping to get our house on market before end of March, then it's how long is a piece of string.
beagle/monksie - cheers it's gratifying to know I'm on the right track.
[i]Not sure of Schooling though[/i]
Poynton schooling used to be very good, at least it was when I went to school there, to the point that there was a property price bubble in the area. Obviously that was *mumbles* years ago now, so it may have changed. Agree about good transport/biking links though.
Higher Poynton is more 'villagey', but nicer IMO. Lovely walks/rides on the canal, Lyme Park etc.
Oh and Higher Poynton is home to a Santa Cruz Syndicate rider, so it cant be all that bad.
That road layout is mental though. That junction near Waitrose - no one has a clue what's going on!
[url= http://newsmanc.co.uk/2012/02/05/news-panic-engulfs-trendy-south-manchester-suburbs/ ]Panic in south manchester[/url]
Keep up TJ, nbt's already posted it 🙂
[i]no one has a clue what's going on![/i]
That's the point though isn't it, it's supposed to make people slow down and think.
*waves to Bunnyhop*
Yep I moved to Mellor (kind of halfway between Marple Bridge and New Mills) last year specifically to try to get my kids into Marple Hall School. Not sure where you have heard bad things about the school but it's all relative I suppose, compared to the high schools in and around Glossop it trumps all of them. I bet the schools in Cheadle are good though.
Let me know if you need any more info, cheers James
5 Mins and yer on the M56.5 Mins yer on the M6
It really doesn't get much better than that. Possibly if you lived permanently in a Travel Lodge at a motorway service station I guess.
I love the way these threads always seem to end up telling you rather more about the posters than the places they're supposedly posting about... 😉
nbt and TJ - Nail on head 😆
jamesgarbett - Not[i] bad [/i]things, but the most recent Ofsted report rates it as "satisfactory" (3). Now that doesn't necessarily correleate to exam results and it will probably get a better rank next time, especially if it's got a new head... but I could move to an area with a school ranked "outstanding" (1).
Had a look at Poynton online, definitely going on the list. Look at the size of that garage!
[url= http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35060012.html ]http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35060012.html[/url]
No worries - I'm just crossing my fingers that our kids get in - we find out on 1st March - no guarantees any more even from within the catchment area
I think that report is 3 years old, new deputy heads and head since then, last year's GCSE results were very good, but as I say I'm comparing it to schools in Glossop and surrounds
OFSTED were in school this week but not sure how long it is before their report is published
Cheers James
Bloody hell lads! Discussing comparable Ofsted results for Manchester commuter-belt schools?
You've only gone and broken the middle-class-ometer
It went off the scale, then exploded! 😉
😆
[i]Look at the size of that garage![/i]
Ooh, spooky. When I saw that I thought "I wonder if it's that one on Dickens Lane that my mum and dad looked at years ago"
And it is 😯
[i]You've only gone and broken the middle-class-ometer
It went off the scale, then exploded! [/i]
Probably wasn't helped by the discussion about how bad the Waitrose junction is, it's hard to know who's Audi Q7 has right of way! 🙂
The only slight issue with Dickens Lane is that there are no facilities up in Higher poynton any more - there's the Boar's Head Pub and the [s]tip[/s] recycling centre, but that's about it - if you run out of milk, you have to go down to the village, and hope that since Waitrose opened all the little shops haven't shut so you can still find what you need at 6.30pm on a Sunday.
On a more positive note, the Strawberry Pig is one of the finest chippies in the area
Is there an echo in here TJayjayjayjayjayjayjayjayjayjayjayjayjay...?
Can you all stop talking about south Manchester.
As much as I love West Lancs (and I do, despite there not being any altitude WHATSOEVER), I do rather miss it down there.
[i]The only slight issue with Dickens Lane is that there are no facilities up in Higher poynton any more [/i]
Yeah, but there hasn't been for years really, most of the housing in Poynton has never really had a shop in 5/10mins walking distance, it's always been based around the centre. And there's a huge carpark behind Waitrose...
Anyway, has the Co-op gone from Coppice Road, by the end of Waterloo Road? What about the Post Office/chippy at Hockley?
[i]As much as I love West Lancs (and I do, despite there not being any altitude WHATSOEVER), I do rather miss it down there. [/i]
As much as I love Gloucestershire (and I do, despite there not being much altitude WHATSOEVER), I do rather miss it up there.
I like it here, south of Manchester but I'd hate to live in South Manchester (or Poynton).
Anyway, has the Co-op gone from Coppice Road, by the end of Waterloo Road? What about the Post Office/chippy at Hockley?
Co-op went about 7 or 8 years ago, post office and butchers shortly after.
Really? That's sad, Hockley Post Office was my childhood sweetie supplier 😥
Just show's really, there's absolutely tonnes of housing around them so buckets of potential customers, but they close as folks don't use them because that would mean walking for ten minutes rather than driving for ten minutes.
I remember when there were three co-ops in Poynton (back when Mars Bars were 8p)
oh hang on - might be thinking of the wrong area.
co-op's definitely gone
*checks map*
chippy at hockley's a chinese
post office has gone, yep
butchers on shrigley rd north has gone
Just now here in Salford- Next to McD's 5 young Dutch lads where to go (where the Trafford centre is etc). I ask them are they staying here? Yep nearby in Salford. I point to the spot of the shooting and say 'be bloody careful what time you come back at night'!