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RE Edinburgh - and this is largely from a student perspective ~15 years ago 😂 - old town (marchmont/Bruntsfield) had the charm, better pubs and greener environs and new town had the posh cunts and the fancy bars. I have been back up there at regular intervals over the intervening time for all sorts of reasons and have seen nothing to change that initial perception. I agree with the above, Ed is small enough to walk across, so you can drop the London approach of favouring the outskirts for access. Plus, I always had the impression that, from a town-planning perspective, Edinburgh had managed to maintain it's beautiful/historic/characterful town centre by effectively building an outer ring of grimness around itself and I certainly wouldn't recommend looking towards Sighthill etc... in short, especially considering it is quite so bleak from a weather/daylight perspective for 6 months of the year, one of the major attractions is the city itself, the architecture, pubs, museums, cultural scene etc, that - if you can afford to - you want to be within short walking distance of it, not stuck on the outskirts...