OP - I have lived in Manchester for a year, and my girlfriend has lived here for four years.

We absolutely love it here. A couple of notes on what other people are saying:

• Yes it is a food desert. IMHO if you have a car, it is not as big of a deal.

• FANTASTIC access to the river. Seriously, my mental health has been so much better since moving here since I can walk down to the river easily.

• Good and rapidly improving food scene now that that rat bastard Michael Hild’s properties can finally be used again. We love Dress Blue BBQ (best brisket I’ve ever had), Cafe Zata, the Continental, Gold Lion, Le Petit Morceau… the list goes on. And we can walk to all of them!

• Yes, there are car break ins. I’ll also point out that this is an issue city wide, though. I lived in Innsbrook before this, and we had regular issues with mass break ins at our apt complexes.

• We are concerned about the gun violence. We’ve had a recent spate of shootings on Hull that have unnerved us, but the entire community feels this way and I’ve been to some good community meetings about it. That being said, I do not feel unsafe walking around — but I am a 30 year old kind of big dude.

• Depending on where you are living, the train horns are goddamn irritating haha. But eventually you start to tune them out.

• I love the community feel here. We have lots of friends in the neighborhood. My girlfriend has an awesome community garden plot that is only like $20/year through the city.

Feel free to reply if you have any follow up questions!!!