I'm Not Posh, I'm From Manchester!

[Caribeing]

Are there no posh people in Manchester! Four In A Bed this week had Diane and Sandra from Grassington Lodge in Yorkshire they were accused by a fellow BB of being too posh, Sandra said I am not posh I'm from Manchester!!

[Tilly2]

Parts of Manchester are very posh!

[DTCwordfan]

Such as?

[jno]

someone told me that Manchester was once owned by a baron who lost it gambling. I don't know if that's true, or if a baron who gambles is really posh. (But he must have been rich.)

[Tilly2]

DT, have you been to Manchester lately?

[DTCwordfan]

The posh parts are outside Manchester, such as Alderley Edge or Tarporely. Wilmslow has it smart streets but, overall, it's a dump and its main street is pretty naff. And don't say Salford, last time I was there, bullet holes through the windows of a main stream Ad agency with offices in the dock and that familiar peculiar smell wafting over, aka Old Trafford (football).

[Eve]

Pfft! :) You only have to travel around on the South Manchester buses, loads of posh sounding students!

Didsbury is nice area. The posher bits I think of are more moving out Cheshire way though depends if you are thinking of Manchester proper or Greater Manchester.

[Eve]

Well, my house had bullet holes in one window when I moved in...

Some pretty pricy flats round the Quays (though they are trying to grow it to encompass and regenerate some other bits of Salford).

Worsley is lovely! Technically Salford though but in Greater Manchester.

[Mamyalynne]

It depends on your perception of posh, there are affluent areas in and around Manchester as there are in any city.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes Worsley has some lovely properties my brother bought one there many moons ago, Mum was very impressed (she was a bit like that,lol)

[Buenchico]

Possibly a relevant thread:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Travel/Question1305667.html

[silliemillie]

There was a TV program some time ago, if anyone else remembers, where families had to compete for a free cottage in Grassington. Most of the village were snobby, (and very prejudiced) saying they didn't want the cottage to go to people on benefits, or gays or blacks and any other stereotype they could think of.

I do recognize these ladies but cant remember what their views were as it was some time ago.