chorlton, manchester
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I had thought that Chorlton Irish Club had closed years ago. Either that or it had gone downhill because it now closed earlier because of noise complaints from local residents. I went there myself quite a few times maybe four or five years back, and had some wicked nights there - the doorstaff seemed to have an 'anything goes' policy.
I also met a Satanist in Chorlton, only this one was South African. She was pretty damn sexy, but quite clearly a headcase.
My experience at the Irish club must be at least 5 years ago, maybe more, so it could be very different/closed now I guess.
thats my thinking too
Where'd ya live right now?
Have lived round a lot of South Manchester myself - I'm currently around the Moss Lane West/Upper Chorlton Rd area.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I made that mistake as well.
im in fallowfield/withington border area at the moment
ive lived in longsight, fallowfield before, west didsbury, withington and now here.
Far too much drama round this end at the moment for my liking.
I used to live on Nicolas road too! I lived there about 3 years ago.
I've also lived on Ivy green road, Brantingham road and Albany road.
I loved my time in Manchester but it all got a bit much. I honestly think Chorlton has gone down hill over the past few years too. It just dosn't have the same feel to it anymore.
I do miss summer nights sat on the green with a few pints though.
I've lived in all those places plus Whalley Range. I'd kill to have my student days again
Meh, I wouldn't want to live in Chorlton - too white and middle-class for my liking.
Who needs organic fruit and veg places and poncy bars, when you got Hulme Market and The Junction pub?
i just want somewhere i feel safe.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
I was there 10 years ago - when Moss Side was still Moss Side and not a Barratt Homes project!
I do remember the nice pub on the green though, with fond memories... the Plough and Harrow wasn't it?
I went to Chorlton once and was quite impressed, I suppose if I had to live in Manchester I'd live there or Didsbury. Coming from just outside Manc I had previously tended to view everything inside the M60 as a big scary monolithical place so Chorlton was a bit surprising (cos it was trendy and rather middle class). Manchester vaires unbelieveably. I have two mates in Moss Side, 10 min from each other but the difference in their streets is astonishing. One's nice, the other's just not safe.
i was working just down the road from chorlton today
twas lovely
the difference in how the streets felt and the calm atmosphere was a nice change
Ahh but once the sun sets on Chorlton it can turn into one flew over the cuckoo's nest pretty quickly. Especially around the four banks.
i was working just down the road from chorlton today
twas lovely
the difference in how the streets felt and the calm atmosphere was a nice change
I took a rare visit to Chorlton today. The village is nice but there's something I don't like about Chorlton that I can't quite put my finger on - there's probably some form of inverted snobbery in it admittedly.
Living Hulme/Moss Side way, one thing I couldn't fail to notice is how hideously white it is - the only non-white person I saw was the security guy in Morrisons.
I feel safer here than I do most places I've lived in South Manchester. People get shot round here sure but as far as I can tell they're targeted rather than random happenings - I don't associate the area with muggings, break-ins, street violence and other random acts of crime etc.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I agree. I believe it was originally coined by Greg Dyke and from what I know of him he sounds a decent guy, apart from this utterly offensive, early 80s PC type comment.
If the reverse was applied......well, I don't really need to say. I know he was talking about the BBC and not inner cities.
BTW I have never seen Chorlton as a particularly white area - seems as ethnically diverse as many British urban areas.
I'm well aware of the origins of the term. And having just today traveled from Moss Side via Whalley Range (two areas of the city where non-Whites make up the majority) to Chorlton and the main thing that struck me being how hideously white it is, I stand by my stance that it is infact "hideously white".
Who is the term supposedly offensive towards btw?
Nikkormat
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When travelling in the other direction, does it strike you how hideously black these areas are?
Agent Sparrow
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My friend has lived there for a number of years, and she says she feels safe. Her house was broken into once but then that can happen anyway - I have no idea whether break ins are common there.
She loves the bars too. Frankly I couldnt' stand them when I went to visit her, but that says more about how I feel about bars really!
moose
like some cat from Japan
What's hideous about it? (incidentally, the 'majority' you are talking about is only just a majority)
Though I potter about much of South Manchester, yesterday was the first time I'd been in years and so I can only speak for this one occasion. Hence I can't talk about what I 'do' experience, rather what I 'did' experience.
An on this occasion I travelled from and through areas which reflects the racial/cultural make-up found within most British cities into one that was homogeneously white.
Once back in Hulme/Moss side I popped into the local supermarket to pick up a few things - there were white British, (Eastern) Europeans, Afro-Caribbeans, Asian, Chinese. Conversely the only non-white person I noticed in Chorlton had been the security guy working at the supermarket I had been to there (Morrisons).
so if everyone in chorlton was black it would be ok?
For me it's not a white/black 'issue' - the absence of black people didn't strike me so much as the visible absence of the race/cultures found in the neighbouring areas.
I make no apologies if my phrasing is offensive to those whites who pay a premium to live in a 'white ghetto' where/because they're much less likely to have some black guy (or a Turkish guy or whatever) living next door to them.
How visibly unreflective it was of the racial/cultural make-up of the population which is usually found in urban living (that which is found in the neighbouring areas).
This really is offensive. You're effectively implying that people who live in Chorlton do so because they are racists who don't want to live in the same area as non-whites. What a load of complete and total moronic wank.
As I said, I grew up on a council estate in a major British city which was almost completely white. People weren't 'paying a premium' to avoid black people, it was simply that there were very few black people there. The non-white population of Britain is less than 10%, this is what most of Britain looks like. The vast majority of immigrants have historically headed for the inner cities because that is where the work is, where the housing is cheapest and where they can live alongside people from their own background. It is nothing to do with people in Chorlton or elsewhere deliberately trying to avoid them.
You'd probably say the people in the place I grew up were 'hideously white'. The people in the place I live now aren't, I live alongside ethnic Somalis, Jamaicans, Poles, Bulgarians etc etc etc I don't have a self congratulatory wank to myself over living somewhere multicultural because that would make me a complete tit. I don't look down my nose at people just because they happen to live somewhere whiter than your own multiracial paradise. It's snobbery, it's judgmental crap and it's the sort of attitude that turns people off progressive politics because it excludes the vast majorities of towns and city suburbs in the country.
Wake up to yourself ffs
Not all of them. Not a majority of them either. But no doubt some of them.
I wouldn't dream of saying all the white people who live in Chorlton are (casual) racists - for example I know a lass lives there who spent her gap year in Thailand, ventures into Rusholme for a curry once in a while, and even has black friends that she scores weed from and goes to dub nights with.
I grew up in an area that could be described as 'hideously white' - even now the only non-White people I can think of on the street where my mum still lives are the family who lived there when I was a kid. But it while not far from rural and/or affluent, it isn't/wasn't the kind of place I'd expect to see many non-White faces. Whereas the city and the surrounding areas are.
Regardless I take your points on board.
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