No. 1 Deansgate

You ever seen that humongous steel and glass behemoth near the Arndale Centre? It’s the first thing that assaults your eyes as soon as you near the city centre, and it’s the place where all the footie players and high-​end Manchester actors live.
No. 1 Deansgate has to be seen to be believed. It was part of the redevelopment that took place following the IRA bombing and cemented Manchester’s place in the UK’s top urban dwellings. It is as a matter of fact the tallest steel residential structure in the UK and it’s mighty expensive. Aptly, it was completed just as I arrived at university and it still overwhelms me every time I see it. It looks slightly more upmarket than that skyline-​botherer Beetham Tower too. Gosh darn Hilton.
Sixty metres high, fourteen floors tall, it’s home to 84 apartments with a total of eight penthouses — four of which sold back in 2002 for a cool £1.5 million each. Nice! If any of us mere mortals were to be able to afford places in here they’d be box rooms and studios. Meh, alright for some. The places are furnished to the highest spec as one would expect, and with a 24 hour concierge this is luxury living and as central as can be.

Number 1 Deansgate is indeed a place fit for kings, and therefore not fit for me. In a fourteenth-​century analogy, the people that live here are the equivalent of medieval royalty, knights and squires. I am the equivalent of a smelly vegetable grower wearing a potato sack and covered in grub, probably with a strange disease such as Black Death.
It is actually the tallest all-​steel residential building in the United Kingdom, and the penthouse suites at the top of the building were at one point the most expensive residences in Manchester.
Now a 1 bedroom flat can be acquired for merely the price of a small house elsewhere, at around £200, 000.
Looks like I’ll have spend quite a few years growing and selling quite a few potatoes, save a few golden sovereigns and then auction them for modern day money (unless Natwest will change them) before I can move in.