Manchester Vs London

SteveOBHave said:
I love living in London - I've lived here for 4 years and loved every bit of it. There is always something to do and I can walk out my front door and be in the thick of it in 10 mins without using public transport. I can also catch a tube direct to Heathrow jump on a plane and be anywhere in Europe within a couple of hours or I can walk down the road to Kings Cross, jump on the Eurostar and be in France in the same amount of time. I'd like to see you do that from Hicksvillebouroughshire central England. Pffft.
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It all depends what you want, really.

In "Hicksvillebouroughshire central England" you get clean air, minimal noise, and neighbours who know your name. You can also buy a house sufficient for a family with a single professional salary. Not a bad tradeoff for (say) an hours travel to be 'in the thick of it', or 2hrs travel to reach an airport.
 
Hequn said:
Which one would you prefer to live in?

I love London but it's all a bit too much for me to live there all year round, glad I didn't move there like I nearly did! But Manchester is ideal for me, it's really big but not so big it swallows you, you can do pretty much anything you'd be able to do in London too.
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London personally.

I live nearish it at the moment, and not visited Manchester but I have no desire too :p
 
Duff-Man said:
It all depends what you want, really.

In "Hicksvillebouroughshire central England" you get clean air, minimal noise, and neighbours who know your name. You can also buy a house sufficient for a family with a single professional salary. Not a bad tradeoff for (say) an hours travel to be 'in the thick of it', or 2hrs travel to reach an airport.
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Haha for a moment there I thought you said you could get a Horse sufficent for a family :D That'd be a big horse.

I walk 10 mins to my office, something that I would never trade for a 1hr commute.
 
Vegetarian said:
Ive lived in London and Manchester (been here for 13 years now) so I will give my honest opinion.

London all the way!

Manchester is tiny compaired to London... that also means less of everything. Less choice going out and different things to do. London you have so many "free" stuff eg museams, nice parks - city looks nice (unlike manchester) etc

Manchester transport sux big time - its the worst of any major city in the UK. Yes theres a metro but thats only 2 routes. Other than that the whole city runs on buses... If you want to go anywhere you have to first go into the centre of town then out again... there are very few cross routes... there are many different bus companys all using different tickets again making traving expensive. Thoes who moun about Tubes need to suffer SLOW manchester transport. It offen takes me 1 and a half hours to get into work... manchester an 8th of the size of London, this is a discrace!

Cost of living - manchester and london are much the same... rent and food has really gone up in recent years.

Im not saying manchester is bad - I would not have lived here this long - but its not a patch on london which is so alive. Manchester on a non weekend can be really dead.
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It's £11 for a weekly pass with stagecoach. How is this expensive?
 
gurdas said:
After so many years does your hatred of London not tire? I think we all get the point;) Whether you want to admit it or not, London has some fantastic things about it and variety, you may not enjoy it but then not everyone enjoys walking the dogs in the quiet yorkshire dales:p
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I understand it has good things there, I also understand it has variety, but it in no way do the good bits come close to outweighing the bad.
 
There are random towns much worse than any of the cities listed here...

Luton, Merthyr.... etc
 
FishThrower said:
I find that people who live in towns have the "big fish in small pond" mentality, people worry about what other people think of them, and everyone is in competition with each other materialistic wise.
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You've certainly hit the nail on the head here I think.
 
Manchester is wet, really really wet. It never stops bloody raining.

Still, I preferred living there to London. :) London's too big, seems more crowded and filled with irritating tourists.
 
Gilly said:
People less friendly in Manchester than London? :/

I hate both so am neutral. That statement is wholly inaccurate.

[edit]Did someone in a new town just call Manchester a concrete jungle? :D
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haha **** off ;)

All I can say is from my own experiences. I was based in the centre of Manchester and then to a Fuji building in Wakefield I believe (which in all fairness was a lovely modern building). Afterwards, went out in Manchester (was up there for a week solid, maybe two), and hated the city! Ugly ugly city.

However, everytime I've been in London, the city has been great, it's beautiful in it's own way. I found the people more accomdating too, but not sure if that's just me.

Though the main point for me, was the pace of life down London is so much more quicker than Manchester (and much much much more quicker than Telford - As you know Gilly), but I would echo the statements above about not being able to live centrally.
 
Well I'n a North Wallian and working in Manchester at this moment in time. Seeing as I work on a Ambulance, I get too see most of Greater Manchester, and as much as there are some nice places, dear god there's just mile after mile of dirty filthy houses, estates and closed down areas.
I can't wait to head back home, where I can buy a nice house, in a nice area, with quiet roads, decent shopping without hassle of getting there with easy parking, no dirty scroats and alcohol induced misery around ever corner, and concrete hell all around.

But can't complain as I get to see some crazy ****, and I won't be here for ever.
 
I find london too much, everytime I've been, the amount of people on the streets is overwhelming, I've never liked it.

This is the central parts of london of course, I've been (and used to live) in less built up areas and it's not as bad.

I wouldn't like to liver there though.

As for manchester, I've never been embarrassingly enough :(.

The extent of me going to Manchster is passing through on a diverted train when I've been on my way to Stoke.

The view from the train was nice though, looked like a nice modern place though obviously was a massively restricted viewing of manchester.

Oh and I suppose I've been the airport a few times. That hardly counts though :p.
 
Gilly said:
I understand it has good things there, I also understand it has variety, but it in no way do the good bits come close to outweighing the bad.
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Well that's incorrect. What are the bad things you are referring to? There are bad parts to all towns and cities but you can also avoid these things.
 
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