Ahh, so you live in the badlands between Glasgow and Carlisle. I actually wondered if you lived in the Highlands from what you conveyed, but I've never had any issues anywhere North of Glasgow with people, but that area South of it until you get over to the East is a bit of shitshow. For me anyway, Scotland starts at Glasgow/Edinburgh and true Scotland is North of there. Below that line you get a lot of haters. My grandfather was born in Larkhall. He used to say it was rough as fk below Glasgow and generally quite pleasant North of it.
Yep I live in D&G, I understand why there is alot of bad feeling towards the English in the particular part I live in, its a small town, nothing left in it. But I would say 1 in 3 houses are now English owned as holiday lets because we are on the A75, so everything is really expensive here, all buses stop at 7pm. Only 2 pubs and you wouldnt visit either!
We have a few hotels, and what baffles me is the price, the cheapest Hotel here for a night is £130! and its NOTHING SPECIAL!
Most shops now shut or trying to sell and shut. 3 takeaways, the indian costs you £15 for a Chicken Tika thats brought in frozen and the rice is another £6.
2 Chinese, one is never open and the other is well known for food poisoning. We had a chippy but it keeps being closed by the Environmental Health!
Cheapest holiday let is a 1 bedroom cottage that charges £750 a week low season......But in summer we get English Tourist? No idea why.
Nearest fast food chain like a
MC Donald's is 70miles away, nearest cottage hospital run by
GP's is 40 miles away with no operating room and no CAT scanner etc, nearest proper Hospital is about 75 miles away......I lived here 20 years, although I lived 20 miles from where I do now, it was dying then but is dead as a dodo now!
I regularly go to Glasgow, I stay in a great Hotel for about £45 a night, the beer is cheaper than here and has a nightlife. BM around here is roughly £13 to £15 a gram for complete shite! thats when you can actually get any!
Strange place, it used to be friendly, but then again when I moved here we had 7 pubs and 6 places to eat, if you want a Burger you have to go to a Hotel, Burger and chips £17.50! My partners family have lived here all their lives, her Mum is Dying, so her moving at the moment is not an option. But we have talked tonight about me moving, and honestly I think that will happen when her mum dies, she will stay for dad. But me........Ive had enough.
Like you say Glasgow and beyond is great, but from Ayre down....Its become a nightmare. People think the schemes in Glasgow are rough, or places Like Govan, but 10 miles from me its on another level!! Mostly foreigners to be fair, but last week alone 3 stabbings with one fatal, never makes the news because its just become normal.
I walk all over Glasgow and not once have I ever had a problem, there is a pub in Govan called the star bar, known locally as the stab bar. But I've been in countless times and everybody has been great, my mate lives near it and wont go in, then he stayed with us for a week.......Now he knows what rough really is
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Local cops are great, mainly because we havnt got any lol. even the fire station is part time run and nearest full time one 40 miles away.
Vut the scenery is something else!! or was before the wind turbines. I really dont want to hate the place, I see so much potential, but its in full decay now
