To believe that a very high % of mumsnetters are Scottish

[greedygal]

I get this impression and have no idea why - is this my imagination or is this the case?

Where are you originally from?

I am thoroughly English.

I'm going to ruin the 'fuzzy' vibe here,but last time I was in Edinburgh,I honestly thought there was no atmosphere at all. None. I didn't get that 'buzz' that I get from being in a city,any city.

It does have much to recommend it though. I love the great museums,the castle zoo,some lovely nude pendent shops,and some very nice cafes and restaurants.

I'm pretty central Edinburgh as well. Keep toying with idea of moving out as would be nice for the kids to have more space for unsupervised play. However, in my current area school is practically round the back of the house, park on the doorstep, the area has a really strong community feel to it and I have a suspicion we'd end up in the car heading into town a lot anyway so we stay put. Garden is small but it is big enough for the kids to run around in circles if they need to and DD1 is getting to the age where I'll let her to to the park with friends without adult supervision.

I have a soft spot for Balerno though. If something suitable came up there I think I'd be off like a shot

Chewing the fat was repeated a wee while back that sketch is one of my favourites

Glaikit is a very good word.

I also miss not being called "quine" or "lass". Quine always seemed more respectful than "girl"

Independent not nude pendent. I hate this thing.

Scottish, living in Scotland. Ayrshire girl now living in Edinburgh.

Juice - any cold beverage that is not alcohol or milk. Acceptable beverages when I was younger were:

Juice (ginger, fizzy juice, diluting juice, breakfast juice )
A drink (alcohol)
Tea
Water
Mulk, if you are 'a wean'

I've actually heard the exchange:

'Want a drink?'
'Nah, am aw right, I'll take a cup of tea though?'

I'm in Edinburgh East and 'the honest toun' sign always set me clutching my handbag. Perhaps the toun doth protest too much and all that

Why is this in Aibu?

Independent not nude pendent

I did wonder but decided it was some sort of peculiar light fitting peculiar to Edinburgh.

Milkandcereal, I love Edinburgh and I live here but I know what you mean.

I remember the first time I went to Glasgow on my own and I was really struck by the sense of a large city stretching for miles all around me. I didn't like it as it was a really unfamiliar feeling having grown up in a real backwater, I found it a bit claustrophobic - "how do I get out of this huge place". Being more used to cities now I don't get that feeling but I never got it from Edinburgh at all, I'm not sure why.

MZ here, checking in from the lofty heights of South Morningside aka the best place to live in the world.

Smug? Moi? But who wouldn't be, surrounded by the Hermitage, the Pentlands, Waitrose and M&S Simply Food?

I am proud to be a snooty Edinburgher. I would never, ever, live anywhere else. We're mostly friendly and smiley up here but if I want privacy I set my phasers to malkie and nae cunt bothers me.

Win win.

Oooo morningside vair posh

I lived in Aberdeen for a while and an English girl I knew was really bemused once telling me a random guy had just described her as "fit" in the middle of a normal conversation. She was quite pleased and I didn't have the heart to tell her...

Scottish in Scotland

Glasgow feels much bigger and I have no mental map of where anything is. I can find my way round London and at least two European capitals better than Glasgow.

Unless I'm with husband I never drive in Glasgow and have discovered Edinburgh taxi drivers don't mind at all if you make ridiculously short journeys whilst Glasgow ones huff and puff about it.

Aye ah ken, Morningside is the epicentre, the apex if you like of poshness. Never mind the fact that I live at the top of a stair, with regular student parties below and fag ends forever in my shrubbery.

You know you've hit the big time when you tell English people where you live and they go 'ooooh, Morningside!'.

I'm going

Tbh I think the 'huff and puff' forms part of the taxi driver exam. I had visitors who took a taxi from Queen St station to my office building near Central Station and the driver was beelin.

I'm going

I love being back in my hometown a few years in London fair makes you appreciate Glasgow! Similar to what Eddie said the feeling that I couldnt get out of that big city for hours whereas in Glasgow you can be at Troon beach or the countryside in no time at all! plus got fed up with people saying you don't sound like your from Glasgow ! no we are not all Billy Connolly someone even said you don't look like your from Glasgow

I think there may be a smidgen of truth about Glasgow being friendlier.

As for whether it's an AIBU it's a diversionary tactic so the rest of them can talk about English schools without us going "what the hell is year 6?"

I live in the grange (well the outskirts)

Sadly in a wee flat not one of the mahoosive Georgian houses.

Nivver mind the taxi drivers, even the bus drivers in Glasgow are a bunch of shysters. If they can't see you at the bus stop due to other buses being in their line of sight, they fly past, leaving you to run out into the road and flag them down like a helicopter on a hillside.

Dinnae get me wrong, I used to live in the Weege and I still visit a lot and love it, but there are some er, quirks of West Coast living that do my box in.

morris do you have, or will you have in the future, a blue rinse?

Och illlusion shattered morris

I don't think Edinburgh is less friendly than Glasgow per she.

People are just more reserved.