Reply to: Glasgow - good or bad

[Doggy Styles]

Lovely people in Glasgow but the weather - I spent a whole "summer" working there, May to August, and I can see why many jocks turn to drink and other "comfort" foods.

[Rantor]

Or you can just get tanked up on buckie and go down looking for a scrap with the local young team.

Buckfast is the Google to Eldorado's ALta Vista.

[minestrone]

Small world. Clarkston for me. We probably went to school together...

Went to the one that began with S not W

Anyway, I admit the weather in Glasgow may be pretty grim sometimes and a good few months of the year you are pretty much confined to indoors but in the summer it all changes. If you get a good weekend you can be in Loch Lomond in 15 minutes, largs in 45 minutes, millport in 1:20, Arran in 2:00, Oban in 2:30 and Pitlochry in 3:00. There are dozens of great places on your doorstep.

Or you can just get tanked up on buckie and go down looking for a scrap with the local young team.

[Rantor]

I've worked in Glasgow twice on fairly long term projects.

On both occasions I stayed in a village near Strathaven. I prefer to not reside on the doorstep of the client.

The architecture in the city is fantastic(If you look higher than the shop windows.).

Great places to eat and socialise.

Some of the "Neds" can be twats though.

As others have said, same problems as any other big city.

Also if you're up there for the odd weekend travel out to the west coast! The scenery can be breathtaking!

One of the most well-balanced views of Glasgow I've ever read

[Fred Bloggs]

Same "tulipe" weather today

It's the same every single day. Drab, drab, drab. That's why the place needs nuking

[TCL]

Grew up in Netherlee

Small world. Clarkston for me. We probably went to school together...

[minestrone]

Another one here, East Ren born+bred. Currently living just outside the hallowed land, but moving back to "Spam Valley" any day now

(for the unitiated, "Spam Valley" is a reference to a particular pocket of East Renfrewshire around Newton Mearns, Whitecraigs and Clarkston. So called due to the middle-class inhabitants having stuipidly high mortgages and only being able to afford Spam to eat)

I stay in the bit where if you phone 999 you don't get the police, it's the Israeli Defence Force that pick up. Grew up in Netherlee, I am resisting all attempts the gf makes to get me to move to the West End.

[TCL]

I stay in East Ren too, would never think about moving back to the west end again. Where are you going to park?

Another one here, East Ren born+bred. Currently living just outside the hallowed land, but moving back to "Spam Valley" any day now

(for the unitiated, "Spam Valley" is a reference to a particular pocket of East Renfrewshire around Newton Mearns, Whitecraigs and Clarkston. So called due to the middle-class inhabitants having stuipidly high mortgages and only being able to afford Spam to eat)

[denver2k]

IMO, opinion the whole of Scotland is the most grey, drab, miserable place on earth. And the weather is tulipe too.

Same "tulipe" weather today

[Churchill]

I've worked in Glasgow twice on fairly long term projects.

On both occasions I stayed in a village near Strathaven. I prefer to not reside on the doorstep of the client.

The architecture in the city is fantastic(If you look higher than the shop windows.).

Great places to eat and socialise.

Some of the "Neds" can be twats though.

As others have said, same problems as any other big city.

Also if you're up there for the odd weekend travel out to the west coast! The scenery can be breathtaking!

[cailin maith]

Can you elaborate please? I had thought that most of the sectarian craziness was the preserve of a neighbouring club.

Ah Jaysus lads, it's not that long since we had that debate!

[shaunbhoy]

He was Celtic mad, so a crazy sectarian too

Can you elaborate please? I had thought that most of the sectarian craziness was the preserve of a neighbouring club.

[Jubber]

Never been - but one of my buddies from way back was a Glaswegian. One of the funniest blokes I've met. Liked a drink and so did I back then.

He was Celtic mad, so a crazy sectarian too, but all tongue in cheek which made it very funny. I would just love to hear his opinion on the Jedi "Poh-liss". Maybe I'll call him just to ask.

[chef]

the police have a good sense of humour though

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...st/8003067.stm

[scooterscot]

The accents you better get used to them...

"They made me feel as welcome as a fart in a space suit"