Towers of luxury apartments loom over waterside bars beside Deansgate-Castlefield station. On hot sunny days, the area is packed.
“Everyone is always there during the summer,” Ruwaydah says. “It’s like influencer heaven.”
She began making TikTok videos about her favourite places in Manchester six years ago, after moving into one of the city’s sky-scraping apartments.
It seems the city is having a moment. Its economic success is being celebrated, its former mayor might become prime minister, and its influencers, like Ruwaydah, are showing the world why they think this is such a great place to live.
