To drive to Dundee on Christmas day?

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From our home in Glasgow?
I just opened the door for a second and the wind and rain is crazy.
Christmas eve (tomorrow) is supposed to be milder and there's a weather warning (yellow) for storms on Christmas Day.
We were planning to drive to the inlaws in Dundee on Christmas Day. We should go tomorrow instead, shouldn't we?
What do other Scots think?

Dundee isn't that bad. It's better than Fife.

Don't get me wrong - Dundee has an amazing University with some very prestigious researchers but the actual city is a bit crap.

And I'm allowed to say that because I'm a legitimate Taysider who was born there and lived a substantial proportion of my life there.

Sorry Gin but Dundee is grim.

I know it very well.

Dundee is transforming itself!
I live near Kirrie but was at uni in Dundee and have have worked there in a few varied roles for 20 years.
DS and I wouldn't be here but for Ninewells Hospital.

Yeah why not? Just make sure you wear shoes and socks and don't eat too much Toblerone.

Salmotrutta- I've chosen to live in Dundee for over 20 YEARS, lived in Stoby, city centre, Whitfield and the Ferry, dp's family born and bred here - so I know it pretty well too. It has its fair share of problems, but is definitely on the up!

I would love to have been to Dundee today- love the place!

I was born and grew up in Dundee and would go back in a heartbeat - I absolutely love the place and the people well most of them

Waving to Dundonians from a lot further up the A90..

My grandparents used to have a beautiful house next to Reres Park in Broughty.. spent a few Christmasses there when I was very young. I bloody love Dundee, planning on booking the Apex in the new year for a few nights again

Ach there always going to be people
Slagging off Dundee, it's a not bad wee city, supposedly on the up 🙄, we have the same social problems as other cities, but we don't have the same problems with violent crime and gangs that Glasgow has (coming from a position of knowledge on that).
I've lived in the Ferry all my life, bar a couple of years in Carnoustie (but we don't talk about that), and unless something unforeseen happens I'll be staying here (apparently it has the most hours of sunshine in Scotland!)

Love Dundee and if anybodie else slags it aff e'll pure rap their pus

Lol at IamMummy!

Eh'd tak ye up on it but ehm awa' tae the Asda for mi messages!

I'm not really, I'm drinking Dundee Marmalade Gin watching Call the Midwife

Can ah hae a peh a bridie ana ingin in anaw.

What's with all the Dundee slagging, I love Dundeez

This thread is ace! My daughter is in her first year at uni in Dundee (we are 350 miles away in the English shires) and she loves it, I have driven up countless times already. I would move up there in a heartbeat but she won't let me

I think 'decent' shops will come in time. St Andrews and Falkland are quite near and offer a few quirky shops which sell things other than prosecco candles.

Regular visitor and wouldn't mind living in the Blackness/Perth Road area, although I probably couldn't afford it.

So heartening to see any discussion of Dundee. I keep telling myself it is getting better. Truth is love is blind when it comes to your home town. Snowy today I hear. Hope it lasts til I get there new year.

it used to be terrible! ....the Wellgate centre is to blame for that...once you were in you couldn't get out and would actually CHOKE on the second hand fag smoke. The top floor was like a fogbound airport!

I have no idea how anyone gets out of the upper floors of the Wellgate centre now BHS is shut down,

All you Dundee mockers will be sorry once the V&A is open and we are all cultural icons of city living

It's definitely on the up!

I've been predicting it for years....Elephant and Castle next, mark my words!! ;)

Tondelaya - you travel up the escalator or if bravery is your thing, in the lift, past The Wellgate Clock ( a thing to behold at midday!), and out to the vista offering access to the town, Victoria Road and the Hilltoon.

Love the way this thread has moved on from weather warnings to a discussion of the merits of Dundee generally. It's DH's home town not mine- but I think it's OK.
The Discovery museum is ace, the town is full of quirky little statues and there's a very good playground at the nearby country park.
I don't know what all the fuss is about re: the V&A tbh. I've been to the one in London and it's just old curtains and stuff.

Alan Partridge drove to Dundee in his bare feet.

I'm looking forward to visiting the V&A when it opens.

And I 'd take snow over howling wind and pissing rain any day. #dreams of a wee flat on Perth or Blackness Road with views over the Tay. Are all the Parkview appartments sold yet… ?

I hope you made it OP!
We're off to Dundee in about an hour to enjoy a day without visitors and visiting.
We're going to the DCA cinema then fish and chips from The Tail End (where The Deep Sea was, your DH will know!).