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Originally Posted by SamF

Im comparing it to the other towns Ive been around in the last 5 years - Levenshulme, Hadfield/Glossop/Stalybridge, Holmfirth.

Levenshulme is the closest to Accy in terms of being run down and if given the choice between living in either personally Id chose Accy due to family and friends but id recommend someone else to choose Levenshulme(Manchester Centre in 10 mins on the train, Muslim majority leading to strong community and low anti social behaviour - down side being lack of pubs!)

No doubt there are plenty of other places that are run down and in fact despite living in a very nice area of West Yorkshire my girlfriend and I are looking to move back to Lancashire simply due to family and friends.. we have not for one minute though considered moving back to Hyndburn after where we have been living... Towns like Ramsbottom seem to have cracked it with near-countryside locations and the right attitude - if you poured enough money in you could rebrand Accy as a Manchester commuter town in the counrry

Try Gorton, or Moston me daughter lived in both places oer 10 yrs ago they made accy look like the West Bank of Paris