Who here hails from Manchester?

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/01/foursquare-manchester-england-rudest-city_n_829758.html

[Royal Oak]

So fuckin what?

On a serious note: a colleague, from Bournemouth on the south coast, told me she is scared of most Mancunians. She finds them hard-faced and vaguely belligerrent

[BillF]

I found exactly the same thing when I first came here fifty years ago. Now I've developed a native's thick skin and don't notice. A Which University? guide aimed at 18-year olds had this brief entry for Manchester in its "Are the Locals Friendly?" column: "At least there's safety in numbers", referring to Manchester's huge student population. It was, however, published before the year in which three students died in separate murders.