You have to suspend disbelief to watch soaps - those factory workers must be paid well if they can afford to buy rounds of drinks every lunchtime! And I have lived in a street in Salford and I can assure you that the whole street did not turn out for every wedding or funeral.
Babies, even first babies, always arrive very quickly, often in the back of a cab, and on Christmas Day.
Characters change their personalities completely - I remember when the Dingles were menacing thugs, not cosy, loveable rogues, and Sally Webster and Gail Platt were not harridans.
Salford people don't use dialect words like 'appen' for 'perhaps' - that is a Yorkshire expression, I think.
And of course, as in every soap, you are 56 times more likely to get murdered than in real life!
I still love Corrie, but I miss the humour we used to have with Jack and Vera, and Hilda Ogden, or the three old biddies. It is now almost as bleak as Eastenders, and so is Emmerdale.