Since I couldn't be bothered to go out and take a load of pictures heres a re-post of mine from a similar thread from a while back.
What is it like where I live?
I'll get the negatives out the way first and start with cars and people, and finish on a happy note. First off, Porsches, bloody Porsches everywhere, and cocks drive Porsches as we all know. No but really, Didsbury is home to a lot of yuppies, or students that are £20k in debt pretending to be yuppies because they're doing a degree in the air guitar or some balls like that. Actually I'm not being fair, theres a lot of sudents doing sciences, law and mathematics that I've met. Science is the big one at Manchester university from what I've gathered speaking to the (female) students I've met down the road in Fallowfeld on many a night out (this is a couple of years ago btw, I'd get a kick in the groin for chatting up a female fresher these days).
Manchester University on Oxford Road.
A typical example of where the yuppies go, this is a place called Est Est Est in didsbury village.
And the not so yuppy people go to Fallowfield just the other side of Withington. Places like the Revolution.
Just next to where I work almost is Chorlton, where I play Snooker, and theres Chorlton water park where you can go for a stroll, a bit of canoeing or fishing.
And then theres Sale water park a bit further down the road, just a bigger version of Chorlton water park.
And ofcourse the home of the Red Devils, the thater of dreams.
And then theres the Trafford center shopping center.
This is an area in the center of Manchester called "The Triangle" in exchange square. They put up a huge screen here where a lot of people gather to watch main sport events and such.
This is the Manchester wheel.
This is the page for the local Lamborghini dealership.
http://www.lamborghini.co.uk/?section=dealers&dealer=manchester&sub_section=sales
Tis is the page for the local Ferrari delaer.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/go.asp?session=9@5@117612@731808@3645
And the Bauer and Millet showroom some people may have heared me mention from time to time in the auto forums.
http://www.bauer-millett.com/controller.php
We also have dealers for Jaguar, BMW, Maserati, Vovlo, Audi and many more nearby.
It's bloody expensive living in West Didsbury (which is south Manchester), though the area itself is nice. House prices for a typical 4 bedroom two floor house start at around £200,000 ($370,000 USD) going upto and over £800,000 ($1.5mil USD).
This picture is taken from literally just around the corner from my house.
From top left: The black and white building is a local party building. This is Palatine road, one of the major bus routes in Europe. This is a cross roads, if you couldn't tell. And thaqt building on the corner is my local bank, theres a restaurante next to it and a small Blockbusters next to that.
This is part of Disbury village.
This is the Seimens building, where Siemens do a lot of technical research aparently, it's right over the road from where I work.
And where I work.
So, pubs, we have a lot of pubs in Didsbury. Over 20 of the them. It's a good place to find a pub to suit you, be it loud and busy or calm and relaxed.
The best pub imo is one called "The Didsbury", it's located on the South side of Didsbury village just on the main road, it's a big enough pub to be busy but not to seem like it, your never stuck for room at the bar and there's always room to move about. The prices are decent as well, for Didsbury. Other than that, theres the Metropolitan, which is nearer but a lot more expensive, it's the main local pub where the local soap stars go, and over TV personalities that live in the area.
And the Red Lion, which I haven't been to for a while, but it's nice for a meal.
There's a few parks in and around Didsbury, there's 6 parks in Didsbury and another 4 or 5 in the immediately surrounding suburbs.
Thes are part of Fletcher Moss park in Didsbury.
So there are nice places to go and just get away from the streets and people and noise when you just want a quite walk with the missues.
This is the local library.
The entrance to a small gardens called Parsonage gardens.
Some pics of Didsbury village itself.
Theres three local Golf courses.
Didsbury Golf club.
Withington Golf club.
And another one I can't recall the name of, nor care to search for right now.
All in all, I like living here, it's a nice place,a bit busy at times, the pictures don't reflect how busy Didsbury gets. But all in all it offeres a lot of things I want from the area I live it. It's just very expensive.
We could only dream of having scenery that beautiful. Michigan is a dump not even worth sharing pics especially right now with over a foot of snow. All you see everywhere is white and brown scenery and dead looking trees. Very ugly and depressing in the winter. Well sometimes right after a huge snow fall it looks pretty but most of the time its just ugly.
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