Places to live in the NW...

[Blown2CV]

We've been looking for a new area to live in. The general requirement is south manchester / cheshire, decent bit of green nearby, not too urban, but also some decent nightlife not too far away, easy travel links, and... (don't give me any st about this!) no/minimal chavs. We'd been looking at Lymm, Altrincham, Hale, Bowdon... but Mrs 2CV has introduced the possibility of Macclesfield. I don't know much about it, but have heard mixed reports.

Any ideas, thoughts please?

thanks

[Blown2CV]

had thought of wilmslow actually... however i forgot to mention, i'm very against the planes!! Not sure if wilmslow gets them or not?

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Shaw Tarse said:

Worth looking at Poynton?

good suggestion... forgot to note this one down when listing candidates up the other day!

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Wilmslowboy said:

Blown2CV said:

had thought of wilmslow actually... however i forgot to mention, i'm very against the planes!! Not sure if wilmslow gets them or not?

Runway runs east to west (and west to east) so very little of Wilmslow has any plane noise


Knutsford, Mobberley Heald Green, Cheadle etc

Are on the flight paths....

yea i ruled those out on that basis shame cos mobberley is lovely place, if a little isolated.

Managed to offend a guy I used to work with some years ago by saying i'd never choose those areas because of the planes. He couldn't understand why someone wouldn't just suck it up and get used to it. I think many people that are brought up around this way probably feel the same... not me though.

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alolympic said:

If you can venture a bit further, Chester. Great town, the only place that could drag me back up to the NW.

sure it's a nice place. Some of Mrs 2CV's friends are from there though, and it seems part of the deal of living there seems to be that they are obliged to harp on about how amazing it is, so that kind of puts me off a bit.

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macp said:

Nearer to Warrington how about Appleton Thorn,Stockton Heath maybe Northwich which is getting better and better or Great Budworth Antrobus,Tarporley,Tattenhall.

looked at those areas of warrington in depth a few years ago and whilst they are popular, I don't think they were really for me. Good shouts on the others though!

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supertouring said:

I would not recommend Maccesfield, but Tytherington, Bollington, Alderly Edge and Poyton (where I live) are all nice places.

I used to live in Wilmslow, but too maybe people trying to be someone over there.

nice one thanks

[Blown2CV]

In Manc city centre every day at the mo, but that may change in Feb. Reasonably likely to be working away, so there probs won't be a commute as such from home.

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i live in Lymm and if you leave the house say 7:15am you can be on the other side of manchester city centre at 8am. Depends what people are used to doing i suppose, but that doesn't feel too early to me.