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I would like to write about my favourite street in Manchester, and about some differences as i understood it from Making Social Live DVD, it is Wilmslow Street in Rusholme, this street is mainly full of takeaways and restaurants and few newsagents, jewllery shops, internet cafes and call centres, in the morning time the street is full of crowded buses as students go to their universities, whereas in relation to pedestrians the street is very quiet, interestingly, in the evening time the picture is the other way round, as you could notice that the street is full of pedestrians, on the other hand the buses are nearly empty.

There is an internet cafe and a call centre shop, i used to visit 10 years ago, at that time this Internet Cafe was very busy with customers especially students aged 20 -30, sometimes i found it hard to get a computer in the Cafe, when i had to wait a little bit. Nowadays this internet cafe is a bit quiet, one of the reasons i think that because the students used to use the internet only for study purpose, but after a decade the Internet became very popular, and its very difficult to imagine life without it, the internet covers every single side of our life, and you can also relay on the Net nearly in every aspect of your life, from reading your local newspaper and ordering your food and booking your flight ticket or checking the weather or even contact with friends and family or making new friends via facebook and tweeter.

Moreover when we know that free WiFi Internet connection is widely spread, and you can find a signal wherever you go, in the Restaurants, Hospitals, Hotels, So the change is significantly huge, and it has its impact on both students and internet cafe owners. and maybe couple of years later the internet cafe will vanish from the street.

There are a lot of Restaurants and Takeaways in Wilmslow Street, as i mentioned earlier that the street is very quite in the morning time in terms of people walking in the street, so you can notice that Takeaways open from noon time till early morning time specially in the weekend, the peak time for restaurants and takeaways is after 6.00pm till 10.00pm, Actually to my knowledge i think the students prefer to eat in the takeaways rather than the restaurants, i think because they find the takeaways more friendly and affordable and you can observe that some takeaways use their own technic to tempt the students, such as putting some posters on the window of the shop with a picture of a nice dish and its price on it, they use this technic in general to attract everybody, and they use another technic if i may use this word, just to welcome a specific kind of people, for example, they use the sign of (Halal) to attract Muslim students. Whereas some resturants do not show the prices even on the menu, they just show you the list of the food, and they charge you for the food and the service. So i think some restaurants with their trendy decoration are excluding people who would come and eat in, on the daily basis, i think that wide range of the restaurants customers are families and business people from upper middle class, who enjoy eating out every weekend, while some middle class people would enjoy eating in restaurants in special occasions only, as first date or wedding anniversary dinner, Etc.

Finally I would talk about the jewllery shops in the middle of the street, sometimes i find it very strange, how come this kind of business would make a good profit in this kind of area where the street mainly occupied by students, how this business can survive in this very irrelevant area, But very suprisingly, while takeaways business depend on this huge amount of students, jewllery shops only target local Asian families, which i think the word of mouth play important role to make the business worthy and profitable.

We can also see an interesting Scene from a different angle, that takeaway need to sell at least 100 meals a day to make a living out of this business, on the other side, you can see that the jewllery shops only need to sell maybe 1 piece of jewllery a day to make a living.

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