NJ2 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I think I'm lucky to have be brought up in Aberdour, pretty much down hill from there. We are pretty luckily in general in Scotland I've spent the last week in London and it's an utter hole once you leave the center Fuckin’ right you are, brother! While I wasn’t raised in Aberdour I spent a few years there. Teckle wee place. Bought my first pint legally in Aberdour, it was £2.55 at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 4 hours ago, NJ2 said: Fuckin’ right you are, brother! While I wasn’t raised in Aberdour I spent a few years there. Teckle wee place. Bought my first pint legally in Aberdour, it was £2.55 at the time. good place to be as a kid but making the most of it because I doubt I could afford to move back, sadly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 good place to be as a kid but making the most of it because I doubt I could afford to move back, sadly.No, I know I certainly couldn’t unless I was to get a better paying job back down the road, unlikely, and had a few years of just saving and doing nothing, even less likely! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Port Appin??? There's about 5 houses there. This sounds like some bullshitting journo has stayed in one of the posh hotels and decided it was a great place to live.It’s great - cycled there and taken the wee ferry to Lismore a couple of times - and at least it has a shop and a pub/restaurant.North-east not getting a look in on this thread, but very glad I moved out Deeside way in recent times as quality of life much better than Aberdeen and suburbs where I spent most of my years, especially in the summer months when you can add 5 deg on to average temperatures.Dundee is ok nowadays, but there are still a lot of brutal parts for a relatively small city e.g anywhere near the Kingsway.South Queensferry, Inverness, North Berwick, Stirling and Dunfermline all seem ok. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) 28 minutes ago, tarapoa said: North-east not getting a look in on this thread, but very glad I moved out Deeside way in recent times as quality of life much better than Aberdeen and suburbs where I spent most of my years, especially in the summer months when you can add 5 deg on to average temperatures. Simply because I could in the ace weather, I travelled from Keith to Aberdeen yesterday evening via Rhynie, Dinnet, Aboyne & Bunkry (just in case a new Name That Toon thread started or something). Only encountered a single car (and a tractor) between Huntly and Dinnet with the sunset turning the whole place from Mount Keen down to Clachnaben 'Colin Baxter red'. Superb. Considered a brief leg-stretch up Scolty but knew I'd probably carry on to the Cairn o' Mount if I did. I don't think people appreciate how relatively dry and warm the area is until they properly move in/away. I get the impression most people from the Central Belt get to Glenshee for the skiing and then turn back. Not that you'll be complaining. Edited April 30, 2019 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingo ohne Flamingo Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Dundee waterfront is pretty impressive these days. I loved the old Olympia but the new one is decent enough, glad they kept the Cannonball!! The gardens look cracking and it’s a cracking space for holding outdoor summer concerts. With Dundee sitting on a hill and a lot of areas looking out to the Tay, it should be a cracking place to live. I love Inverness, if I had to move to another Scottish City I would quite fancy there. People are down to earth, centre is nice enough with nice walks along the River Ness. Also with a 20 minute drive to some cracking beauty spots. If i had to chose anywhere in Scotland to move to, it’d probably be one of the wee towns or villages on the west coast along the A78, obviously not Saltcoats! Troon or Barrassie or something maybe. Would happily move to my Mums hometown of Prestwick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, This time Perthshirebell said: Bizarre thread! The best place to live is, of course...... You keep a tidy bush. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 I must've missed the nice bits of Dundee on Saturday. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Perth & Kinross is nice I'll give you that. The right blend of Highland scenery, nice wee towns, but relative proximity to the larger centres of population, transport hubs etc.... It's similar to S.W. Aberdeenshire, which of course borders it......... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Bizarre thread! The best place to live is, of course......Great place to have a Music Festival, can someone tell the wankers at the HSE this please. If they are not too busy watching massive planes landing on a pipeline that is far too fragile for people to walk across of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Three Scottish cities in Europe's Top 40 for quality of life according to this..... https://www.farandwide.com/s/europes-most-livable-cities-71985994306c4df6?utm_campaign=europelivable-2cc8f1c8d52143fa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=fac&utm_content=641216&fbclid=IwAR35_atpH2v68E91iWX_nFgEqD_LQ7L-0CQM-fxJATnZvjSWmyotCwRcVqc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 2 hours ago, tarapoa said: Three Scottish cities in Europe's Top 40 for quality of life according to this..... https://www.farandwide.com/s/europes-most-livable-cities-71985994306c4df6?utm_campaign=europelivable-2cc8f1c8d52143fa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=fac&utm_content=641216&fbclid=IwAR35_atpH2v68E91iWX_nFgEqD_LQ7L-0CQM-fxJATnZvjSWmyotCwRcVqc Aberdeen being above Prague is utterly, utterly bonkers. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 16 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: Aberdeen being above Prague is utterly, utterly bonkers. What map are you looking at? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 13 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: Aberdeen being above Prague is utterly, utterly bonkers. Probably two reasons...... (i) Drive a mile or two any way out of the centre of Prague, and you're into very grim Stalinist looking buildings (in ABZ you can probably still get that in Tillydrone or Torry, but there are nice parts too) (ii) Low-cost airlines have turned a beautiful city into a place where lads from Rotherham go on staggers to get smashed up and visit t1tty bars................wait, that can be either city too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 24 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: Aberdeen being above Prague is utterly, utterly bonkers. Or Glasgow above Rome!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 And they have forgotten Dundee! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 And what the f**k is Birmingham doing mid table? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 5 minutes ago, welshbairn said: And what the f**k is Birmingham doing mid table? What the f**k is it doing on that list? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 1 hour ago, MixuFixit said: I don't really get why Edinburgh's on there either tbh. 5 years ago maybe but it's Harry Potter World with 10000 airbnbs these days. Edinburgh is a nice city to visit. If it was a shitehole the tourists would stop coming. Probably why it’s on the list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, ICTJohnboy said: Or Glasgow above Rome!! Rome is massively over crowded, has terrible traffic jams and pollution, is full of homeless African refugees, is generally pretty grubby and run down, almost everything is covered in graffiti and they empty the bins about twice a year. Oh and it's built on a humid, muggy swamp. Obviously Glasgow doesn't have the history or culture that Rome has but as a place to live Glasgow might actually be better. Edited May 6, 2019 by Ya Bezzer! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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