Manchester, England | The MAIN Things You Need to Know
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Published 2023-08-02
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All Comments (21)
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I find the people of Manchester the friendliest in the uk
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Great video. I lived in Manchester for many years and the changes have been astonishing. As others have pointed out, 550k is only the population of the bit that’s The City of Manchester - which is equivalent to a borough. Indeed quite a lot of your footage was actually taken outside ‘the city’ in Trafford and Salford which share sections of the urban centre. The true population is closer to 3 million. Tellingly the population stats for London always cite the ‘Greater London’ figure, but this same principle is almost never applied to the big regional cities - as though to minimise their status when compared to the capital.
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Guys, please stop complaining about every little mistake they might have made. Please give them the benefit of the doubt. I love the fact that they’ve made a video about Manchester. It’s a great city. Thanks for the upload guys. Very informative.
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Love your videos and great content, thank you
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Some of the old brick mill buildings were called fireproof because of the iron supports and when trying to demolish them by burning the oil impregnated flooring it burnt but the structure was still safe
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This vid just got recommended by the bots. I was born in Manchester and still live here. Your review is extremely accurate and very fair.
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Manchester is a fantastic city. I spent a weekend there last summer. The weather was fine and the people were great too. I'm sorry some people have had a negative experience there, because it was all positive for me.
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I worked in that area for about 16 years. You missed the Docks by years it was a sea feed canal the Manchester Ship Canal and the start of the Bridgewater Canal in Worsley in a Coal and lion Stone mine with Orange coloured water
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Children not out past 7PM…sign me up! Sounds perfect to me 😜
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Great job, folks! Thanks, as always. 😊
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Great video - good to have an insider's perspective - I would of said the suburbs are more suitable for families and the inner city is more suitable for young professionals.
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We have good memories of the university tour, the older parts of town, the neighborhoods..., but the airport... OMG! Crowded, understaffed, security way too strict, and to make matters worse: not so many flights to Porto. We missed our flight and that was a terrible end to our journey to Manchester. It probably would have been better if we watched a match live.
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You briefly visited and make a wildly inaccurate video. Manchester is a great city. I live here. The climate is mild and it is not always rainy. It is no more aggressive than any city with a population of 2.7 million.
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Would you consider having a look at Rovinj or Split in Croatia?
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I lived in Manchester for 10 years (uni, early adulthood) then London for 20 years. I totally agree with your point about the aggressive vibe. I have always felt this about Manchester compared to many other UK cities (maybe Glasgow has a bit of that too). The alcohol thing is a shame. It's really overt and contradicts and diminishes all the work that has gone into trying to make it a stylish and grown-up city that has come of age. It goes hand in hand with the aggression where you find yourself forced to smile and laugh along with behaviour that really makes you want to make a run for it. These aspects of the city's culture give it an unhealthy and "only when you're young" feel; not a place to live in middle age. Being fairer to Manchester, he weather issue is a bit overstated. It get's much less rain than New York (av. 1250 mm annually), The UK has a maritime climate....Manchester (av. 867mm annually), like London gets liberal amounts of drizzle all year round..as does London (av. 585 mm annually). This means mild, cloudy weather much of the time across the UK. I have lived rurally for the last 8 years and wouldn't choose to live in either place again..but for city life, London is "grown up" and a confident city.
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It’s actually Lancashire Hotpot , I was born in Middleton in Lancashire and Lancaster was our capital of the county but they took that away and made us part of greater Manchester .
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Great video just a point a lot of the stuff shown was in Salford a city in its own right I was born in Manchester as was my late wife.
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Sorry but I found this all too disjointed . Shots of where ? Would have been better even if you talked over scenes of Manchester .
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That's in North West England
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Its 'Lancashire Hotpot' Not 'Lancaster Hotpot'
