Thread 2825651

How is Scotland?

>>2825651 (OP)
it's shite

>>2825651 (OP)
It has its charms, but it's a very surface level country. By that I mean that there is a distinct Scottish™ experience - see some Highland cattle at pasture, see a rural castle by a loch, visit a whisky distillery - that is pleasant and can fill a week or two, but beyond that every town and village feels exactly the same and there aren't really any cities worth seeing. Edinburgh is very overrated and not a patch on other European cities, even minor ones like Bruges or Nuremberg, let alone Paris or London.

>>2825782
I'd say this is a typical tourist experience. Edinburgh and the highlands are pushed as being the be all end all Scottish experience without getting too dirty.

The main areas of Edinburgh at this point are built to extract as much money as they can from tourists.
It's a beautiful historical city, but they want your cash.

If you're coming do the usual tourist spots if you're into that, don't shrug off Glasgow because it seems dangerous, nobody has beef with some random foreigner and there's a wealth of museums, great food, party spots, then go to the countryside if you feel like getting out of the cities.

>>2825651 (OP)
Why does Scotland have such a big drug problem?

>>2825843
It's a complicated topic. In short, Scotland is still stuck in the 20th century when it comes to treating the mentally ill. This makes for a bad combination with many poor schemes where you can either be bored and broke or blaze it up.

What is so bad about Glasgow? People talk about it like it's an open-air prison.

>>2825867
I've lived here my whole life. If you don't go to the east end, it's an amazing place to live, even if you're poorer like me. It's also a very interesting city in that class hierarchy is overruled by the city's local identity. My secondary school (high school for Americans reading this) had the sons of millionaires attending alongside meth kids who wore rags. I am quite poor and frequently went to rich friends houses where they had like six floors.
The violence doesnt exist anymore outside of the absolute poorest bit, we hosted the Commonwealth games and that was the final nail in the coffin after decades of gangs being whittled down slowly by the police and social workers.
The young teams assimilate everyone regardless of class basically. Although young teams dont really exist anymore either. Thats a whole thing that you couldnt explain to someone outside the UK

>>2825870
is the violence non-whites, or are there actually scary anglo demons walking around the poor bits?

Cold, rainy, depressing and the heroin capital of Europe.

>>2825843
Imagine being within touching distance of England and yet not having the honour of being able to call yourself an Englishman. It's enough to drive anyone crazy

>>2825835
I'm heading to Edinburgh later in the year, is the price of everything really that rough? I'm mostly going for the Autumn colours, architecture and the change of scenery. I wanted a very short trip to just go for some interesting walks and clear my head but I might consider going out into the country more if it's that bad.

>>2825871
There are turf gangs who fight over ethnicity but only at night in town (the city centre). Going east towards calton and other clydefront shitholes its mostly neds. Govan has been cleaned up considerably thinks to the new bridge and a huge social effort.
Ignore anyone telling you to avoid the town centre, many visitors are shellshocked by the state of the streets (very unclean esp on sauchiehall st), but its very safe during the day.
One exception to this is union street next to central station. That entire block is hostels. Locals know to avoid it, tourists do not.
So yeh mostly there are no demons walking around unless you got to the absolute worst sections by choice.

>>2825940
It's not insane prices, it's just enough to make Scottish people scoff because everything in Edinburgh is noticeably marked up compared to other cities around the country. It won't be bad as a visitor coming with cash to spend, food/drink etc. will just be a few pounds more expensive than it would be elsewhere.

>>2825959
are the turf gangs ethnic scots or?

>>2825988
I might be out of the loop but growing up in a working class area it was yea. Scotland is like 93% white and most of the working class areas that have issues with violence are still majority white Scottish people. Any trouble in areas where the community is mostly immigrants or not White is usually confined to that area amongst each other.

>>2825867
It’s as expensive as Edinburgh and has far less interesting stuff to do outside of being close to Loch Lomond and being the main rail and intercity bus hub to get to better parts of the country.
I don’t completely hate Glasgow, seeing the Clyde from Clydebank was nice and there is a very good nightlife scene, but it’s been overdeveloped since the 90s to where it’s becoming more like a typical British city than a Scottish one.

the west coast is spectacular
highly recommend doing a highlands road trip
on a motorbike is best

>>2825651 (OP)
>>2825782
>>2825987
Scotland is not a country, it's a province of the UK

>>2826169
Curious.
Also
>UK
>province
yeehaaww, Chuck!

>>2825843
its not sunny so they're sad

>>2826333
There's more to it than that. It's genuinely just that every town is grim and deprived. There are some lovely villages though, like Pittenweem and Culross

Ireland mogs the fuck out of it so that should tell you everything you need to know

>>2826784
And then you have Northern Ireland which is more depressing than Scotland.

>>2825651 (OP)
its aight

>>2826784
>Ireland mogs the fuck out of it
How? lol

>>2826015
ive always said glasgow is the better city to live in; edinburgh is the better city to visit (in terms of typical tourist stuff at least). glasgow offers very little in terms of like, notable landmarks or even just nice scenery. but the people are nice and theres a good food/nightlife scene so you always have stuff to do long term. comes with how overwhelmingly student-y it is, i guess, same with how new trendy areas keep cropping up because places are getting rapidly gentrified as existing studenty areas fill up and they spill out to wherever else is cheap

>>2828609
The gentrification is really sad. It's almost as bad as London in some areas.

>>2829178
what do you mean anon? dont you want the whole city to be entirely vintage charity shops and gimmicky cafes?

This is Scotland in 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpS4mPJwf8

>>2829292
they were removed by police yesterday

>>2829292
>3 cunts from Texas
>tribe

>>2829589
from tiny acoons...