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Looking to escape London any thoughts - Quiet openminded
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Move up North. Find a nice little village in North Yorkshire or Cumbria and your find everything is cheaper. If your job is as flexible as you say your easily find something or be able to commute to a town or city. Your be able to travel to London in a few hours. Your also find a whole host of ex-londoners saying its the best thing they have ever done.
I only had the misfortune to live in London for a year or two and there is only a certain kind of person who actually enjoys living there. If your unhappy living in London your feel much better up here. If you like the city life then Leeds and Manchester will give you city life at a bit less cost and more enjoyable.0 -
You might like Glasgow, then, too. It often features as a top destination for visitors in the UK but has a lower profile than Edinburgh. Edinburgh tilts towards tourists whereas Glasgow is more liveable for ordinary folk who don't need to heave their way through dawdling tourists.
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Yes even has a large drugs culture, and high crime rates. Has it share of refugees also. You even have a few gangs. Glasgow is just little london.
The large cities are nackerd.
Edinburgh is catching up with glasgow.
OP all depends what you want.
I just want to be able to have peace,quiet no hassles. If i want to go a walk , i do not want to have too worry if its 12 at night.
I do not want to have to worry about kids causing me grief,drug users boy racers or bag snatchers.
If you realy want to move do a list of all your key points and maybe we can give you some ideas. There are bad areas in most cities.
To get back to the old scotland/england you have to go to the small villages. Low crime/grime and drugs. BTW not all villages are closed communities.0 -
You might like Glasgow, then, too.
Life expectancy for a man living in Glasgow is 58 years old.....
So if you are not the one that is going to live until 70 then you may be the one that is going to die at 46. Personally I would not want to spend my last 6 years in Glasgow!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:0 -
I have lived in London, Hackney to be precise. Where I lived was nicknamed 'Murder Mile' Due to it being the one square mile that had the highest Murder rate in The UK!! I have also lived in Kent and have family who live in Essex, Bristol and Lancashire.
However It would take somewhere very special to get me out of the little village in Scotland where I live now!:T0 -
Yes even has a large drugs culture, and high crime rates. Has it share of refugees also. You even have a few gangs. Glasgow is just little london.
Glasgow isn't remotely a little London - even the drugs and crime that go in tandem with any large urban centre don't a-London-make-it.
As with most urban cities, the drugs and crime culture come from the pockets of deprivation that belong to it are concentrated in particular areas where professionals don't tend to live. Like most urban places, there are two versions of it, one enjoyed by those in employment and one that contains an underclass, who rarely mix with or encounter each other.
Glasgow has excellent amenities, excellent transport, much more affordable housing, brilliant social and shopping opportunities, loads of theatres, cinemas and museums and galleries. The place has loads of music venues for live gigs. It will be hosting the commonwealth games.
It has a friendlier vibe common to most northern places in the UK where if you ask a stranger a question, such as directions or the time, you don't automatically get treated as if you are a nutter or a nuisance.
It frequently wins awards from travel and style guides that recommend it as a destination.
The dumping of approximately 5,000 asylum seekers in its high rise blocks on the outskirts of the city is an appalling travesty but not one that impacts on the day to day living of 99.9% of Glasgow's residents. There's about 570,000 residents in the city, about 1.7 million in the greater Glasgow area.0 -
It has a friendlier vibe common to most northern places in the UK where if you ask a stranger a question, such as directions or the time, you don't automatically get treated as if you are a nutter or a nuisance.
LOL - I stopped to ask a road sweeper for directions in Glasgow....nice bloke, one tooth in his head and after much shouting and waving I drove off none the wiser...Couldn't understand a word he was saying....LOL0 -
Mrs_justjohn wrote: »Life expectancy for a man living in Glasgow is 58 years old.....
So if you are not the one that is going to live until 70 then you may be the one that is going to die at 46. Personally I would not want to spend my last 6 years in Glasgow!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
No, the average life expectancy in Glasgow is around 72, less in the deprived pockets and more in the affluent areas and isn't much lower than places like Manchester.
The best UK life expectancy is in Chelsea so if the OP has a spare 500k + for a 1 bedroom flat, then he's laughing. Alternatively, he should consider emigrating to Japan to live even longer...0 -
OP - are you quite openminded? Or you want somewhere that is quiet and openminded??
I can't decide if there is a typo in the name of this thread, or I am just misreading it. Been mildly vexing me for days. And I appreciate how odd that is... I do need more of a life!0 -
So everyone is not like Rab C in glasgow ..LOL
Glasgow is bad you already mention the refugees. I am surprised you never mentioned the beautiful regeneration of the gorbals...lol
As i said before the cities are knackered.0 -
No, the average life expectancy in Glasgow is around 72, ...
Taken from the BBC news website.....
A Glasgow GP has reacted to a World Health Organisation report which highlighted a 28-year gap in life expectancy around the Glasgow area.
For 21-years Robert Jamieson has been a GP in Calton, which the report says has an average male life expectancy of 54. This is in contrast to nearby Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, where the figure rises to 82.
He told BBC Scotland that the figures quoted in the WHO report had been known in Scotland for some time.
"In Abercromby Street, where my practice is, the average male life expectancy is about 53 years old," he said. "There is a high incidence of mental illness like depression, which leads to a number of organic problems.
"The area also has serious problems with gang and knife culture, and of course drug and alcohol abuse, which are colossal contributors to early death."0
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