Owning your own home

Dennistoun is right next to city centre, easy to get back and forth, its a lot of the south side thats alienated from it. Lived briefly in a fancy spot in Pollockshields (big houses close to the river, not the other pollock) but aside riding, getting back and forth felt like going between two towns via an industrial zone, not much fun. All the other areas are much further away, however you'll probably feel like you don't need the city as the amenities in those areas are really good, very 'now' feeling.

Edinburgh is mental, know loads of folk who moved that way in around 2008-12 because Edinburgh was where it was at, but then maybe too many people were drawn to it and the prices went IMO London level crazy where you would see an advert, ring the agent immediately and offer deposit based on 3 lines of text and 2 potato photos.

IN last 5 years, ALL of those folk esp those now with young family eager for more space are back in Glasgow.

• on Suburban hell, Glasgow has plenty of those car centric estates that you can only access off a main road outside of the city, then drive for what feels like a lifetime through winding streets with speed bumps until you arrive at your very own slice of it. Worst ones are around Newton Mearns, and north of Bearsden and Drumtocher, anytime I'm riding bike along those roads, the approach to those estates is the most dangerous part of my ride, low spec leased white audi's everywhere driving like utter twats.