The town where people can't agree if they live in Manchester or not

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Do you live in or have ever been to Tyldesley? If so, do you class it as more Manchester or Wigan? This might sound like a strange question to you but it is the exact debate users of the social media site Reddit have been thrashing out recently.

Earlier this month, Reddit user Confident_Battle_415 posed the question on the r/Manchester subreddit asking - "Is Tyldesley classed as Manchester or Wigan?" Of course, a quick google search would confirm Tyldesley is a market town in Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.

So not Manchester but certainly Greater Manchester. READ MORE: Ten of Manchester's most missed pubs and bars that have closed in the last decade READ MORE: The infamous Manchester bus wars sparked by 'cheerful boxes on wheels' Giving context for the question, the Redditor posted: "This is a question that I’ve always wanted to know.

I used to live in a town called Tyldesley and wanted to know if people class it as more Wigan or Manchester? Adding: "I haven’t lived there for about 10 years now but one of my old friends and I were talking about it recently and the question got brought up again.