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Tell me about Glasgow [59]
Hi There,
First off, a place is as good or bad as what you do with your time there and the effort you make.
I've lived in Glasgow for about 15 years since leaving home to go to University at Strathclyde. I have never experienced any trouble in the city, but then I don't stupidly walk around 'bad' areas at late at night. The trouble tends to exist between Gangs only. We don't have a gun culture that is invading the south of england and is when i last checked prevalent all over the US.
Glasgow can be a wonderful city, vibrant, colourful, great architecture as noted in a post above, just look above shop level. Some of the best parks in any city, world class museums (Burrell Collection, the Kelvingrove), four universities (one of which is one of the oldest in the Uk), great people - a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants - indian , pakistani, chinese, polish :), irish, french and german and more recently north african, baltic states. This mix leads to some great restaurants cafe and delis and I don't mean deep fried food before the usual ill informed comments get batted about.
Pub/bar culture is great, clubs are very good, the subclub is one of the best clubs around if you like decent dance music, its easy to avoid the drunks and orange fake tan girls, you only need to make the effort to buy a copy of the list magazine.
Its only 1h and your into the hills and more rugged west coast, 2 hours and you can go snowboarding in the winter, some of the best granite rockclimbing in the world, one hour south will take you to the coast by ayrshire and into burns country and some nice coastline. One hour east by train and your in the capital, which is pretty but not as friendly, I mean if you want to live in england live in england, don't bother with edinburgh.
My fiance, moved from krakow to glasgow to live with me, she is loving it, I thought about moving back with her to poland, but she informs me that shes not moving back anytime soon, she like it here.
Its easy to live in glasgow and avoid all the problems and areas that get mentioned, but above all if you want to experience the city then you need to get off your ar@e, not go to work and come home at night complaining about how it rains lots and there is nothing to do.
Just my 10pence worth to try to redress the balance in this post.
Cheers
Neil
Oh and one final tip
Having read his posts , ignore that Noimmigration guy, he seem like a bit of a w@nker
:)
