Moving to Greater Manchester area

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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    Zingzang wrote:
    bigjim wrote:
    By the way the rain thing in Manchester is a fallacy.
    The fallacy is in believing it's a fallacy.
    There are places in the UK that have a much higher rainfall than Manchester.
    Yes, a few, but with considerably smaller populations in the main.
    The climate is pretty average
    Yes, averagely appalling.

    Average rainfall in Manchester in the period 1971-2000 is ~800mm/year with 140 days of rainfall. Average rainfall in the part of Scotland where I'm from for the same period is ~1600mm/year with 181 day of rain. And for Sheffield it's ~800mm and 130 days of rain. So I'm not sure where this idea that the weather in Manchester is somehow exceptional came from.
    More problems but still living....
  • DF33
    DF33 Posts: 732
    I have a house I rent out near Oldham. The town centre is depressing and the area is generally very poor and despondent.

    However as has been said the outlying villages towards the moors are lovely. I suppose you live in the village, walk / ride the moors and hills etc and party in Manc city centre, All very good and never go into the Oldham et al towns so they are not an issue.

    One small point - and there's plenty of other riding around Saddleworth - the moors around are perpetual winter. seemingly always in mist and rain. The motorway passing over (M62) is the highest motorway point in England as it crosses the Penines over Saddleworth Moor. It can be sunny in Leeds, reasonable in Manchester on the other side of the Penines and p!ss poor all around the Moors on a regular basis as any M62 commuter will tell you. This does slightly limit the amount of riding you might do higher up depending on your rain threshold.

    That aside it's a nice area
    Peter
  • The Little Onion
    The Little Onion Posts: 99
    But remember - whilst Saddleworth is on the edge of Manchester, it is in YORKSHIRE (as all the tedious old farts round here remind people). Sure, we have an Oldham postcode, we are part of Oldham council, and we are served by greater manchester police and fire, but it is definately YORKSHIRE.
  • DF33
    DF33 Posts: 732
    The Little Onion wrote:
    But remember - whilst Saddleworth is on the edge of Manchester, it is in YORKSHIRE (as all the tedious old farts round here remind people). Sure, we have an Oldham postcode, we are part of Oldham council, and we are served by greater manchester police and fire, but it is definitely YORKSHIRE.

    No, your the first line of defence, the cannon fodder, expendable when it all kicks off again.
    Whilst we are enjoying a nice fillet steak and chilled bottle of Chablis over in Leeds reading the latest red / white rose war updates, Lancashire council will be collecting the bodies of their Yorkshire enemies and paying for the privilege. We didn't let you take an Oldham postcode for nothing you know :wink:
    Peter
  • bigjim
    bigjim Posts: 780
    The UK has a temperate climate. I think the Manchester rain thing came about from the cotton trade as they needed damp conditions to spin or something, to stop it snapping. However as far as I am aware Manchester was for storage and shipping rather than manufacture. The manufacturing [spinning] mostly took place in the towns on the lower slopes of the Pennines. As anybody who turned up for Geography knows, clouds release their water vapour as they climb hence these towns [not Manchester] getting more than their fair share of damp conditions. The west side of the UK is protected from the harsher weather blowing in from the east by the Pennines and does not tend to suffer as much from the heavy snowfall, freezing temperatures and disastrous floods experienced in other parts of the UK. It also has the benefit of Ireland shielding us from the weather coming from the Atlantic.
    Wales, Scotland, Cumbria,Devon and Cornwall all have higher rainfall than Manchester. There are not many days in the year when I cannot get out on the bike around Manchester. I'm just in from a 25miler through Heaton Park up through Heywood, Whitefield and a bit of Salford. Mostly on quiet roads and enjoying some countryside views. It has it's problems like anywhere else, but it's not a bad old place.
    Nothing to prove. http://adenough1.blogspot.co.uk/
  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    This is all quite interesting for me. I grew up in Manchester (Moss Side and Cheetham Hill) and only rode my
    bike to work (I was more into football at the time). I have a brother who lives in Timperley who's just taken
    up cycling (he's a serious 5k and 10k runner) and from time to time he rides up to Crumpsall to visit another
    brother. However, if I ever did move back to Manchester it would have to be west/south side.

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