You’ve mentioned Oldham twice there mcduff I’m sure you meant to have included Salford. My beef with the GM area is simply that Manchester is always put first with lots of businesses being centralised into Manchester. The likes of Stockport, Rochdale, Oldham, Bolton, Wigan & Bury are in danger of losing their identity.
Apart from Stockport, the aforementioned towns are in my book, in Lancashire.