Which Manchester would you rather live in?

[bagelman]

England: Proper city in northern England. Largest Manchester worldwide and gave its name to the others. Recently described as not as nice as Birmingham, which inspired this poll.

Jamaica: Capital is Mandeville. Unsafe for gays and very poor.

CT: East of Hartford

NH: The most notable Manchester in the US, largest city in the state.

NJ: Ocean County inland from Toms River, the location of the Hindenburg disaster.

TN: Just barely passes my 10K population threshold, the county seat of Coffee County. On I-24 in between Murfreesboro and Chattanooga.

WRITE IN: Where you can specify small towns, villages, neighborhoods, a Gold Rush ghost town, and a  cadastral unit in South Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_(disambiguation)

[Lechasseur]

Manchester, England

[parochial boy]

Manchester, England - one of the cradles of the industrial revolution, of the workers' rights movement, of Marxism. Major centre of pop and rock music, football, science, the arts. To this day one of the most culturally influential and interesting towns on the planet.

If it wasn't for the downside of it having an essentially unliveable climate it would be a massive draw

[Wikipedia delenda est]

Manchester, so much to answer for. The birthplace of The Smiths, Joy Division, and New Order.

[Хahar 🤔]

Wikipedia helpfully provides this picture of Manchester, California:

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Manchester is a hilarious place. The city centre is essentially a Dengist toytown surrounded on three sides by those sorts of strange places that are at once deprived and affluently trendy: you know, the sort of streets that have shops in where goods are sold at prices that you can't afford but in which you are nevertheless vaguely aware that there's a good chance that you might get mugged.* Further south you have the BoBo inner suburbs of Didsbury, Chorlton and so on, and these are nice enough places but really do feel at times and in places as if they are parodies of themselves. The rest of the city proper is deprived and postindustrial, though, fascinatingly, not in the same way. Moss Side (which is a lot nicer than it was back in the 'Gunchester' days) is very different to Longsight or Cheetham Hill, which have little in common with Wythenshawe, which is a world away from all those tough old districts in the city's north and east.

_{*The fourth side faces Salford across the river. The Morpork to Manchester's Ankh and spiritually (but sadly not actually) twin-towned with Magnitogorsk. Salford has so many massive system-built tower blocks that they affect the weather in central Manchester.}

[Sol]

Manchester is a hilarious place. The city centre is essentially a Dengist toytown surrounded on three sides by those sorts of strange places that are at once deprived and affluently trendy: you know, the sort of streets that have shops in where goods are sold at prices that you can't afford but in which you are nevertheless vaguely aware that there's a good chance that you might get mugged.* Further south you have the BoBo inner suburbs of Didsbury, Chorlton and so on, and these are nice enough places but really do feel at times and in places as if they are parodies of themselves. The rest of the city proper is deprived and postindustrial, though, fascinatingly, not in the same way. Moss Side (which is a lot nicer than it was back in the 'Gunchester' days) is very different to Longsight or Cheetham Hill, which have little in common with Wythenshawe, which is a world away from all those tough old districts in the city's north and east.

_{*The fourth side faces Salford across the river. The Morpork to Manchester's Ankh and spiritually (but sadly not actually) twin-towned with Magnitogorsk. Salford has so many massive system-built tower blocks that they affect the weather in central Manchester.}

Haha this I feel like is a startlingly accurate description of quite a few places--much of the inner bits of Durham are like this, with gentrification apartments and the occasional fancy shop but also fairly regular gunfire.

Would be curious to hear the difference between Moss Side, Longsight, and Wythenshawe.

[ilikeverin]

Probably Manchester, England, but having lived in Manchester, CT it's a nice little town! Although it is now a suburb of Hartford, it has its own interesting industrial history and its main street is charming (and has some tasty restaurants). Unlike many working-class white towns, it's taking the right steps to try to reinvent itself to be more welcoming, and it's got a great stock of multi-family homes.

[Donerail]

Going with the Gold Rush ghost town, now deep within the Los Padres National Forest.

[beesley]

Manchester, England, where several of my recent ancestors lived up to my late grandmother.