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Manchester (and Surrounding Areas) Addicks

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  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,888

    Amongst the general bonhomie of this thread, can we all just agree that it's grim up north? ;-)

    Don't knock it until you've tried it :wink:
  • I like the secret signal. I will use it later and see if any other addicks are out playing !!!.
    I'm happy to help with organising something as well. I live in Warrington if there is anyone out there in this area :-).
  • Hey! Nothin' wrong with up north!
    I did the opposite to most of you, I guess, as I am from Manchester originally but moved south to university many, many years ago. Married an addick and the addiction began, and yes my family up there do support Utd! Sorry.
    Still however, I am ready to party when he sells up!
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,888

    Hey! Nothin' wrong with up north!
    I did the opposite to most of you, I guess, as I am from Manchester originally but moved south to university many, many years ago. Married an addick and the addiction began, and yes my family up there do support Utd! Sorry.
    Still however, I am ready to party when he sells up!

    No need to apologise you can choose your friends but not your family :wink:
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    @Bedsaddick and @SE7toSG3 are up north too.

  • Saulc23
    Saulc23 Posts: 685

    Saulc23 said:

    cafcwill said:

    Saulc23 said:

    I’m living in Stockport. Would love to meet up with a few others who are local. Happy to help with arranging stuff if needed? Can be quite lonely being the only Charlton fan people know!

    I used to say I was the only Charlton fan above the Midlands. It seems I was very very wrong

    Which part of Stockport? I live in Reddish
    I’m in Bramhall so not too far, I know what you mean I always get the old “someone has to support them” line.
    I think we can narrow this down to 'which road' do you live on.

    I'm in Bramhall as well lol
    Looks like there's plenty of us in the NW which is surprising! Next away game up this way should all meet for a pint? Was hoping we'd get Hyde or someone else local in the first round of the cup to be honest
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,777

    @Bedsaddick and @SE7toSG3 are up north too.

    How dare you !
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289

    @Bedsaddick and @SE7toSG3 are up north too.

    How dare you !
    North of the Thames = North
  • Saulc23 said:

    cafcwill said:

    Saulc23 said:

    I’m living in Stockport. Would love to meet up with a few others who are local. Happy to help with arranging stuff if needed? Can be quite lonely being the only Charlton fan people know!

    I used to say I was the only Charlton fan above the Midlands. It seems I was very very wrong

    Which part of Stockport? I live in Reddish
    I’m in Bramhall so not too far, I know what you mean I always get the old “someone has to support them” line.
    I think we can narrow this down to 'which road' do you live on.

    I'm in Bramhall as well lol
    I'm 2 minutes up the road in Davenport. Just by the jolly sailor.

    I noticed a few familiar faces from the match getting off the train at stockport after the Rotherham game.
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,283
    More of us here than you think which is good otherwise there would of been about 12 at Huddersfield during our last fall from grace and under 5 at Bolton at the end of that shite season. As it was there were 26 at Bolton that night.

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  • Intrigued by how so many Addicks have ended up up north.

    What was it? Better quality of life? Moving to be near relations? Work?

    Any of you tempted to come back to London?
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    Well I am working in Beesheva this week @Henry Irving so perhaps I should go to East Anglian addicks meet? East of Woolwich = East
  • I got a better job. It helped that my wife is originally from the area. My daughter was originally born in Bromley but now thinks she is part of the Cheshire set :-). It is definetly a better quality of life it's just the weather I miss.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,751
    I'd be happy to travel up to Manchester for occasional CAFC gatherings
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    Also live up north. We had no logical reason to move other than we wanted a change. Always felt life is more than the daily grind but could only afford to live in an area which had a load of anti social behaviour and dodgy folks.
    Basically we looked at moving to areas where we could afford to buy property. We picked Blackpool but after about 30 seconds it was a 'no' from me. Just down the Fylde coast is St. Anne's on the Sea and it felt like home immediately.
    The pace of life is slower, strangers stop and talk to each other (it can be a good thing), we've got a much nicer house for less money. The schools are better. The beach is 3 minutes walk away. Just feels like more space to breathe. Best decision we have made.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,062
    Lytham St Annes looked very nice, when we had a "nose" after a Blackpool away game a few years back.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    It's well worth a weekend away during the summer months.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    SE7toSG3 said:

    Well I am working in Beesheva this week @Henry Irving so perhaps I should go to East Anglian addicks meet? East of Woolwich = East

    Bethsheva is east of Eden
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,283
    edited November 2017

    Lytham St Annes looked very nice, when we had a "nose" after a Blackpool away game a few years back.

    No10. Ale house very nice and like to go to the Zen now and then for food.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,883

    Lytham St Annes looked very nice, when we had a "nose" after a Blackpool away game a few years back.

    It is very nice and the golf course is stupendously good.

    For all you knockers, there’s nowt wrong with living up t’north (Cheshire anyway!).

    The only problem is getting there. Was down yesterday for the rugby at Twickenham and now stuck at Euston with all the fecking trains cancelled.


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  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,271
    @pork_pie is the most northern of them all

    Thought Chorlton were Charlton and has been incredibly loyal ever since. I personally love him he is a great bloke and gets around the northern outposts we've been infecting for the last few years
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    I'm also an Addick in exile, living in Preston. Have met a few northern Addicks at away games in the past decade or so, but under the current regime, I have drifted further away from the club and have largely stopped going to matches and taken up other pursuits instead, as it doesn't really feel like my club anymore.

    However, once the current bunch of incompetents have moved on, then I look forward to rebuilding my relationship with the club - in fact, the moment that they are out the door....it's celebration time....and it would be good to do so in the company of other Addicks in exile!
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567

    Lytham St Annes looked very nice, when we had a "nose" after a Blackpool away game a few years back.

    No10. Ale house very nice and like to go to the Zen now and then for food.
    Find this very weird. Both are 1 minute from my house. A regular in Zen.
  • RedChaser said:

    Amongst the general bonhomie of this thread, can we all just agree that it's grim up north? ;-)

    Don't knock it until you've tried it :wink:
    I tried it, it was so grim I fled all the way to China.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,888

    RedChaser said:

    Amongst the general bonhomie of this thread, can we all just agree that it's grim up north? ;-)

    Don't knock it until you've tried it :wink:
    I tried it, it was so grim I fled all the way to China.
    I've been to China, each to their own :wink:
  • cafcwill
    cafcwill Posts: 1,292

    RedChaser said:

    Amongst the general bonhomie of this thread, can we all just agree that it's grim up north? ;-)

    Don't knock it until you've tried it :wink:
    I tried it, it was so grim I fled all the way to China.
    We'll give have to give u some notice then for the North Addicks pub crawl/sit in one pub and chat about Charlton that might happen
  • Intrigued by how so many Addicks have ended up up north.

    What was it? Better quality of life? Moving to be near relations? Work?

    Any of you tempted to come back to London?

    House prices, much better quality of life, my wife has family up here (West Yorkshire) and I've always loved coming up here. Pay rise work wise too. No complaints. I get back down south enough to see friends and family but just couldn't hack it there anymore
  • Ok here goes. First time poster after years of being a reader. No idea if this bloody thing'll work. 24 years in Blackburn having lived in London for 35. Couldn't go back financially and better quality of life up ere. oh and missus and family up here. I go to a few games each year. Minimum Fleetwood, Bury, Doncaster this year. Not up for coffee and chat. Piss ups...count me in. Charlton till I die.100% Roland out!
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,846
    When HS3 is up and running you'll all be able to come down here for the odd piss up too :smile:
  • Saulc23
    Saulc23 Posts: 685

    Ok here goes. First time poster after years of being a reader. No idea if this bloody thing'll work. 24 years in Blackburn having lived in London for 35. Couldn't go back financially and better quality of life up ere. oh and missus and family up here. I go to a few games each year. Minimum Fleetwood, Bury, Doncaster this year. Not up for coffee and chat. Piss ups...count me in. Charlton till I die.100% Roland out!

    Were you at Fleetwood this season? I was chatting to a bloke who travelled from Blackburn, I was stood with my girlfriend