living between M'chester & Stoke

floatindolphin · 21 Mar 2014 at 19:52

Hi,

As above, anybody got any recommendations on where to live between M'chester and Stoke? Probably nearer to Stoke than M'chester but close to the M6 or train station

To rent to begin with and then to buy.

Nothing crazy expensive (i.e. Knutsford)

Thanks

mikeh501 · 21 Mar 2014 at 20:09

Congleton
Newcastle
Outside Crewe
Sandbach

{SAS}TB · 21 Mar 2014 at 20:45

Outside Northwich

floatindolphin · 21 Mar 2014 at 21:03

Are these nice places? ^^^^^

spoffle · 21 Mar 2014 at 21:04

M'chester? Really? Do you realise you're saving a single character by typing it like that?

Lawdy LAWD.

Goodie · 21 Mar 2014 at 21:10

I think you can get good value in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Good road links, and enough places near by. Town centre has taken a bit of a nose dive in recent years but I'd have thought allot of places are in the same boat.

The Westlands is probably the nicest area of Newcastle imo

Muffin` · 21 Mar 2014 at 21:12

Macclesfield is on the same line as Manc and Stoke, hexpensive though. Northwich is cheap and close to the M6.

Depends massively on where your job is shirley?

bitslice · 21 Mar 2014 at 21:43

Nantwich is nice, just had a new M&S built and there is a mix of chav and posh.
It has a railway station but I presume you'd have to connect via Crewe to get anywhere.

10 minute run up to the M6 but that does back up* at peak times.

Second choice would be Newcastle,
near enough to Hanley and has reasonable local facilities and night life.

Obviously avoid Crewe like you would a zombie horde, but even people in Romania know enough to avoid Crewe.

*Seriously, is there a single freaking council in the UK that can plan an efficient road layout, or do we have to start giving the monkeys new crayons?

floatindolphin · 21 Mar 2014 at 22:43

Muffin` said:
Macclesfield is on the same line as Manc and Stoke, hexpensive though. Northwich is cheap and close to the M6.

Depends massively on where your job is shirley?

Me working in MANchester, my wife working in Stoke.

The good news is, it takes more keys strokes on my phone to type M'chester than to type Manchester

Thanks for the info folks

Pawnless Endgame · 21 Mar 2014 at 22:48

spoffle said:
M'chester? Really? Do you realise you're saving a single character by typing it like that?

Lawdy LAWD.

Yeah I was thinking that too. Manchester is usually abbreviated to MCR. That's what my mates from up there write in their text messages when referring to the city anyway.

spoffle · 21 Mar 2014 at 22:50

I can understand it being used on motorway signs when the horizontal space is limited, and the 2 characters being replaced by an apostrophe helps cram it on to a road sign, but any other use, I just don't get.

Hagar · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:10

bitslice said:
Nantwich is nice, just had a new M&S built and there is a mix of chav and posh.
It has a railway station but I presume you'd have to connect via Crewe to get anywhere.

10 minute run up to the M6 but that does back up* at peak times.

Second choice would be Newcastle,
near enough to Hanley and has reasonable local facilities and night life.

Obviously avoid Crewe like you would a zombie horde, but even people in Romania know enough to avoid Crewe.

*Seriously, is there a single freaking council in the UK that can plan an efficient road layout, or do we have to start giving the monkeys new crayons?

+1 for Nantwich, but Crewe does have a couple of nicer areas on the outskirts. I agree about the roads though.

SexyGreyFox · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:39

bitslice said:
Nantwich is nice, just had a new M&S built and there is a mix of chav and posh.
It has a railway station but I presume you'd have to connect via Crewe to get anywhere.

10 minute run up to the M6 but that does back up* at peak times.

That's an understatement

Both you and your wife would be stuck in traffic a long time just getting to the M6J16. I'm gigging in Nantwich tonight and it's a pain driving there in clear traffic.
Personally I'd go the other side of the M6 towards Stoke so nicer areas would be Alsager, Audley, Newcastle, Talke etc.

UTmaniac · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:51

Muffin` said:
Depends massively on where your job is shirley?

How do you know the OP is called Shirley?

Hagar · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:52

Dimple said:
I'm gigging in Nantwich tonight.

Where?

rogan · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:56

Macclesfield, expensive??? what

Housey · 22 Mar 2014 at 13:57

Crewe?

DampDog · 22 Mar 2014 at 14:05

Alsager is worth a look, has a small train station and easy access to junction 16, M6. Some nice bits and some ****** bits same as most places. Plus Nantwich isn't so bad. Congleton has access to the A34 but it's a nightmare to get through in a morning.

SexyGreyFox · 22 Mar 2014 at 14:40

nkata said:
Where?

The Railway

daver · 22 Mar 2014 at 14:51

If one of you is working in Manchester and planning on driving to work I would say you should be living closer to Manchester - I live in Manchester and work in Newcastle under Lyme - if it was the other way round my commute would take twice as long.

If getting the train into Manchester then I guess it depends on what you define as expensive - Holmes Chapel area is quite nice with a train station plus not far from M6 (although you can also use the A50 down to Stoke area) and its cheaper than Knutsford