Im going to hold my breath until you agree and if I die it will be all your fault , I hope you can live with that
Aberdeen and Edinburgh are more extreme than Glasgow. Glasgow has a cracking (and large) city centre but has vast swathes of crappy areas. You can be driving through somewhere like Beechgrove in Aberdeen where there are some really nice houses, turn a corner and you're in a ****hole. Great Western Road has row upon row of pretty bungalows with fancy cars in the drive, turn left up Lang Stracht and you're in Mastrick/Northfield/Middlefield Manor. Feegie Park still coming out worst says a lot. The place has had money thrown at it - I know some people say that about deprived areas but Feegie has proper state of the art sports centres, completely renewed housing stock, a decent arts centre - my mate's wife worked for the social she drove people from Feegie to job interviews, gave them money for suits etc etc and this service was set up specifically for that area. Still it's ****ing bandit country. If you live in a **** area in a big city, though, there's still stuff to do and you can go into a decent bit. I'd hate to live in one of those bleak villages in Angus or Fife where there's only two pubs and the nearest big town is somewhere equally as **** just a bit bigger like Kirkcaldy.
Yeah, but Possil and Barrowfield aren't just around the corner from someone with a property portfolio or an oil exec job who smokes fivers.
Aye, even the ****e bits in Aberdeen are like a 5 star holiday compared to some of the dumps in the Central belt.
It's better than Welcome to Dickensian Edinburgh. I'd much rather live in Glasgow. It's no contest, man. My office in Edinburgh is crammed wall-to-wall with ****s.
I'm sticking with being stuck in a ****ty bleak village being worse than perhaps not the worst of schemes, but at least worse than living in a average area of any city. Jip, a good description of a person from my area's impressions of Aberdeen can be found in the first chapter of Brookmyre's A Big Boy Done it and Ran Away.
Dickensian Edinburgh Glasgow's a ****ing ****hole. If you take Glasgow out the national statistics for Scotland we'd be one of the healthiest, richest and long-lived countries in Europe. The city's like a great weight dragging the rest of Scotland down. The only economic growth you see in Glasgow is the number of Big Issue vendors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow#Economy Edinburgh is RBS town. You can't even get to the Gyle without going under an RBS bridge and the Gyle itself has about 3 seperate RBS offices. If we were independent, and didn't have Edinburgh, we would've fared amongst the best in Europe during the financial crash. Factadelmundo.
So basically Edinburgh is a castle and a bank and Glasgow is 2 football teams and some jakeys. M'on the oil capital of Europe.
Isn't Wiki a wonderful thing? Basically, Aberdeen and Edinburgh keep Scotland afloat. Again, I refer you to post #3. You can't escape the truth
I used to love glasgow, but now I`ve moved away I`ve come to despise it. The only things it has going for it anymore are the rancid bigotry, reasonably priced heroin and a sense of community inspired by deprivation and political ineptitude.
Glasgow the muder capital of Europe. Its the ****in dung funnel of Europe. Where do you start ffs. The ****hole of ****holes. Drumchapel ffs.
Whit mair do you want, Billy Bigbaws, eh? Edinburgh's economy (since the parliament opened) = banking/service/politics/tourism and that's it. I'm fairly sure that I read that more than half of Reekers weren't born there and over a quarter were born outside Scotland - not the normal pattern of immigration into big cities, though, as the majority come from one other country. I'm going to Newcastle again today and I prefer working there to when I have to be in Edinburgh - the dwindling indigenous folk define themselves by looking down on the rest of Scotland and obsessively about Glasgow in particular (see posts #3, #52 and all others inbetween). It's like a wee brother who moves to England to work in IT and gets the big bucks and the missus but constantly looks for approval from its big brother who's a joiner but shags aw the birds. Everything I've ever heard a non-Londoner Englishman say about London is true in Edinburgh to a power of about 12. Mostly, because it's the same ****s that live in it, nowadays.
So what you're basically saying is that the reason Glasgow is such a ****hole is it's because it's full of Glaswegians Yer beelin' by ra way!
They're the nice ones It's the golf-playing Burghers who commute to London that I hate having to deal with.
