Have you ever thought of taking your head out your arse and actually doing something about the things you hate about Gorton? Or would that be too much effort, compared to just whining about it? If moving to the countryside is a far-off prospect, why not move to another part of Manchester? There are plenty of places where the things you dislike about Gorton are much less prevalent. But again, perhaps you're too apathetic to do that.
Gorton has it's problems but nothing compared to some parts of the States. Gorton has got a massive cinema, easy travel into the city centre, a couple of nice parks, some great community groups, an amazing old monastery building, and some really interesting people.
Obviously if your main interests are fixating on the negative and sneering about people, none of that will appeal to you.
(tomegranate, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 12:46, 1 reply)

Good plan.
Maybe I'll don my batman costume and go and fight crime single-handedly. Perhaps meet some of those "interesting people" you were talking about.

As for living in other parts of Manchester, have you tried to buy a house in Manchester recently? Do you have any idea how much it costs? I live here because it's the only place I can afford to live. I'd would very happily move to Didsbury or Chorlton, if I could afford the £250,000+ it costs to buy a house there.

And again, why would I give a singular flying fuck about parts of the states? I don't live in the states, I live in Manchester. And I live in a part of Manchester where I am verbally abused on a daily basis, and occasionally physically attacked, for doing nothing more than looking different to the people I live around. I think I'm within my rights to moan about people that want to kick the shit out of me based on nothing more than my having long hair. I've been put in hospital before now because of it. I had to give mouth to mouth resuscitation to my best friend to stop him from fucking dying. Before you judge, you might want to consider that perhaps other people's experiences of living somewhere aren't necessarily as rosy as your own.
( PMGT -Bacon., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 13:29, closed)