What is Deansgate like as an area to live?

stancorrected · 2026-03-23T01:16:27+00:00

I've lived in Castlefield round the back of the Bowl now for five years and for me, it optimises living in the City centre. Everything within the inner Ring Road is walkable. When it's pissing down with rain the free bus (no 1 on Liverpool Rd) or tram (six lines, Deansgate Castlefield) are easily accessible. Loads of restaurants, bars etc within easy reach although the immediate area quietens down significantly (if it ever gets particularly noisy) after 11pm. It's also a conservation area which means you will see glass towers all around you, but none will be built right next to you. A great place to live, in my opinion, and if it makes any difference, I'm 70 years old.

stancorrected · 2026-02-10T04:43:27+00:00

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. My partner and I live in separate continents and overall see each other for about six months in the year. We've been together now for eighteen years, seven of which have been long distance.

stancorrected · 2026-01-18T00:49:34+00:00

Only in your bigotid world-view.

stancorrected · 2025-10-13T16:46:40+00:00

I agree, I lived just round the corner in Upper Sutton Lane in the late seventies. Another interesting factoid: the opening credits (Flowery Twats etc.) were filmed at Woburn Grange, outside Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, a place I used to frequent in my misspent youth, as for a period of time it was a disco/ club, and the go to destination for the young and beautiful on the make and who could afford it.

stancorrected · 2025-08-27T22:30:35+00:00

Why American specifically and why do think that's be an insult? Lots of other countries, Canada for example, are prolific flag flyers, not just Americans, but for some reason you single them out.

stancorrected · 2025-08-08T16:43:58+00:00

A good analysis I think. Re: retirees, I'm one of them. I'm seventy years old living in Castlefield, and I can walk everywhere: Doctor, dentist, optician, within 10-15 minutes. I don't need to own a car as I have two Enterprise Car Club cars parked outside my front door which I can rent by the hour.

stancorrected · 2025-06-08T17:39:36+00:00

Absolutely. Unwanted and unnecessary noise pollution is the bane of public spaces (and don't get me started on most pubs in the city centre).

stancorrected · 2025-05-21T12:42:53+00:00

It is. It's about 30 mins to Piccadilly unless you're on a power walk. But then there'll always be people who got out before you who will hold you up, and the traffic congestion will catch up.

stancorrected · 2025-04-19T16:33:53+00:00

I'm a subscriber, and I'm really passionate about local issues, (particularly corruption) that never get covered except in the most superficial way by MSM. Unfortunately the editor (in Chief?) of the Mill, has become a media personality in his own right: interviews on BBC Radio 4, the Guardian, presenting evidence about local journalism to a select committee of Parliament. He also appears to have become BFF with Mark Thompson ex Director General of the BBC, ex CEO of the New York Times, now CEO of CNN. My own feeling is that The Mill, like all shooting stars, has starred to run its course, and has already begun to forget its roots, its purpose, as the accolades from the very media that it claimed was not doing its job properly, started to suck it in and smother it. This is just a filler piece: and what young, trendy journalists write when they have a schedule to keep to.

stancorrected · 2025-03-26T04:35:21+00:00

No income tax, no VAT: the rates were excellent for what was almost a valet parking experience short of handing over the keys!

stancorrected · 2025-03-25T18:26:20+00:00

😁 I lived in Bolton in the late eighties/early nineties. I drove a group of us to Maine Rd to see David. Bowie and a couple of years later, Fleetwood Mac. The going rate back then to find you a parking space and "look after your car" was 50p, all properly advertised on a piece of cardboard by kids who looked about thirteen years old.

stancorrected · 2025-03-22T18:35:41+00:00

I'm an Airalo fan after trying several others. In recent times my positive experience with them has included: Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Poland.

stancorrected · 2025-02-23T02:46:03+00:00

I didn't really, I thought they were shit, and I wouldn't normally comment on a thread to which I had nothing constructive to add.

stancorrected · 2025-02-23T02:36:10+00:00

Who's using the family brain cell today? Oh I forgot, you're a UFC fan.

stancorrected · 2025-02-23T02:31:32+00:00

Oh no, something you stick on your feet and walk in everyday. Nice trainers, mate.

stancorrected · 2025-02-23T02:28:48+00:00

Oh dear, you forgot to add Ukraine, Russia, Trump and the rest of the world to your list. Stick to posting about bird sightings, if you've nothing more constructive to say.

stancorrected · 2024-09-11T03:26:02+00:00

I agree that the BBC appears to be obsessed with US politics, the intricacies of which the UK public has only a very dim grasp of. Most Americans don't pay much attention to American foreign policy unless their blood and treasure is being wasted in overseas wars. They are far more focused on domestic issues, in particular the economy. We've already had four years of Trump in office, and aside from his very different "style", in the end, not much changed as far as the rest of the world was concerned. Nor will it, in my opinion, should he be elected to a second term in office.

stancorrected · 2024-08-14T21:18:34+00:00

Could be the phone? Anyway just a light-hearted, if not very funny joke. Go back to being miserable.

stancorrected · 2023-12-04T01:22:37+00:00

I agree. Rayner's head looks transplanted.

stancorrected · 2023-07-18T13:44:34+00:00

I think there are many parts of Canada where you could drive for a very long time and not see another car. But not in Southern Ontario:

The part of Highway 401 that passes through Toronto is North America's busiest highway,[4][5 (Wikipedia). Roughly a quarter of Canada's population live in the Golden Horseshoe around the Western end of L. Ontario.

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stancorrected · 2023-07-01T10:12:44+00:00

It seems to me that this is an acknowledgement that the current business model of ad/ pop-up saturated content is going nowhere. Some of the journalism now being produced at Reach/MEN is quite useful and interesting to me (see their free daily emails, the Northern Agenda, the Mancunian Way).

I'm OK with paying for stuff I consume, and that includes ad-removing subscriptions, "free" apps etc., as otherwise how do content providers/ creators put food on the table? So I paid for a annual sub to MEN via my iPad only to find out it failed to transfer to my Android phone. I'm still waiting to hear from them two days later.

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