I was wondering...

[ac_123]

What is the street/region in current-day Manchester that has the big, ritzy, six-figure houses that people want to live in but can only live in if you make a seven-figure salary or you inherit it? Would this area be as fancy and desirable back in the early to mid seventies as it is today?

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[partofthequeue2]

I would say that today that is most likely to be Cheshire. It's where most of the local footballers live, and is within commuting distance of central Mancester. In Manchester today it's mostly expensive flats, with cheaper, family homes further out.

I don't know where the most expensive area would have been in the 70's though. Sorry.

[mistoffer]

That would be Worsley, about 10 miles out of Manchester to the slightly

[mistoffer]

oops. North West. It had a Millionaires row back in the Seventies.

[kalypso_v]

Somewhere round Wilmslow or Alderley Edge, perhaps. Though having said that, friends of mine have been looking at Alderley Edge because they don't think they can afford much in Didsbury, which is and was the desirable suburb within the city boundaries. (In Queer As Folk, Vince tried to convince his Dad he was doing OK by saying he was thinking of buying a house in Didsbury, and I don't think his Dad believed him any more than I did.)

Incidentally, ac_123, aren't all houses that aren't in deprived areas six figures now? In the 2000s, I'd put a £100,000 house into the free-gift-with-a-cornflakes-packet category. Or do you mean six-bedroom?

[ac_123]

Thank you, you two! This is a lot of help!

[anonymous]

From what i remember Wilmslow and didsbury both come under stockport council. Stockport has been in greater manchester since 1974 before that i believe it was classed as cheshire if i was you i'd check the wiki page for stockport, would do this myself but i am on my phone.