Some of you might remember my thread back in october when I was first moving to Manchester and looking for somewhere to live. I ended up in a flatshare in Old Trafford with a guy I met on Gumtree.
My 12 month contract on this place has a 6 month 'get out' clause which is now fast approaching and I'm seriously considering moving, but I'm really struggling with what to do and I just need some advice...
I work in Central Park (Newton Heath) and I commute by getting the tram from Cornbrook to Picc Gardens and then a bus up Oldham Road. This is currently costing me £80/month and the journey takes between 35 mins and an hour depending on how terrible Metrolink and/or FirstBus want to be that day. So ideally, I want to live somewhere where I don't have to cross the city centre and I only have to make one journey. So I think this pretty much restricts me to the city centre or somewhere along Oldham Road/the "soon" to be reopened ORL (of course, it's been opening "soon" ever since I moved here
). Another locational issue is I want to be within walking distance of at least
some shops... a Tesco or something. There's actually fuck all in Old Trafford.
The other restriction is I don't have any non-work friends in Manchester (and all of those are settled down with their wives/girlfriends/boyfriends) and I really don't want to live with a random stranger (because, like my current place, it wouldn't feel like
my home. And after three years of uni, my experience is that living with other people is only good if they're your friends).
I don't earn
that much but I could probably push my upper limit of my budget to £600/month (but that has to be inclusive of everything - rent, utilities, council tax, transport).
So, just how much of an impossible task is this? From what I've seen on Right Move/Find a Property/Zoopla/Gumtree, very.
February 12th, 2012, 01:30 AM
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