Moving from london to Glasgow (HELP!)

[Bwith3]

Hi everyone! We are moving from London to Glasgow in March I have two children (3 and 15 months) and am 6 months pregnant (HELP) LOL. we are leaning towards southside; polakshields has been recommended, but has anyone else got suggestions. I am desperate to find a nursery for my son... Pref with council funding... But I just need him in a good nursery so I would sacrifice the funding... Any advice would be amazing!!!! Please help.

Rofl at pyjama wearing as they measure of 'rough area'!

Try Possil, Barrowfield, Wellhouse, Shettleston, parkhead, Drumchapel, Yorker, Royston, Dalmarnock, Barmulloch and you'll see a lot more than pyjamas!

The issues i have with kings park is to do with the properties themselves. When we looked in the area we found that a lot of the properties had never been upgraded. Houses that we looked at have now dropped on value buy approx 10-15%. This is after the credit crunch.

Thats my opinion, not a social issue but property issue.

I wouldn't move to the south side tbh.

Either west end or if you can afford it, bearsden.

* bloody Bearsden*

Why is it bloody?

I love bearsden, have lived here nearly my whole life (brief stint in Anniesland which I liked too). Wouldn't live anywhere else now tbh- nurseries great, schools great and 15/20 minutes into town on the train.

I'm Irish and we've been in Pollokshields for 10 years.

DD is in an amazing nursery and the tenements that we live in are huge and very well looked after.

In approx 110 years, we're only the 5th family to live in ours.

We're surrounded by parks, shawlands is 15 mins walk away and Pollokshields and Strathbungo are full of cafes and cafe bars with very friendly staff and customers.

10 mins into town too on the train, so absolutely best of both worlds.

The west end is always talked about, but unless you can afford to live well into Hyndland and away from the students I'd avoid.

We need your budget OP!

See we drive through Drumpchapel quite regularlyas a cut through to Great Western Rd and we've never seen "rough" behaviour like we've seen in Maryhill...

Don't know why it's bloody Bearsden, it does get mentioned a lot on these sorts of threads as the schools are so good. In my experience some people in other parts of Glasgow have huge chips on their shoulder (well people everywhere do) and have this idea that all of us in Bearsden are a different species. I love it here, the kids love it here and the local state secondary has been voted Sunday Times scottish state school of the year. Fab place.

Bearsden just seems to me........ I don't know........ a bit "soulless"?

Soulless 😂😂

I don't even know what soulless would mean referring to an area. I suppose an area with no amenities and nothing going on. Not my experience of Glasgow as a whole and not of bearsden either.

You may find that's not much notice for some nurseries. we really struggled to get ours in at short notice. There are lots of lovely areas in Glasgow but do have a think about where friends/ family live as it's tough to start with moving to a new area (where it rains all the time!). Why not book some house/ flat viewings over a few days and come up and see the various areas you may be interested, walk in the parks and get a feel for what you might want from an area and what you can get for the money. Another southside vote here and East Renfrewshire has some of the best schools in the country.

East Ren has great schools but property is expensive

Shawlands, Battlefield, Mount Florida, Strathbungo all good. The avenues of Pollokshields are beautiful but out of your stated budget. A lot of the tenement areas there can be rough as can the schools. I have no idea why people were saying Kings Park is a no go area. There is nothing wrong with it. Most of the houses are quite small but perfectly fine family homes with small gardens. And in your budget.

With your budget I would go for Strathbungo. Don't know enough about West End but Hyndland is fab but I think more expensive than Southside

mercy have I missed something? I can't see a budget yet.

Just to say when the traffic is light I can do the city centre to Bearsden in 17 minutes so it's not far from the city it's just in rush hour it takes longer and that's the same for every area.

Bearsden souless for FFS we have the Bearsden Shark, Antonine Wall, Roman Baths to name a few historical locations, cafes and bars and lots of restaurants, parks and lochs.

And lots of parent and baby / toddler groups too

I live in Bathgate - not Glasgow, but an easy commute. There's an amazing montessori nursery in Blackburn called riverside cottage. New train station with great links to both Edinburgh and Glasgow. You'll get a house and a garden if you don't do city center. It's very much a commuter town, but we have good schools, wester inch village is particularly family friendly, and we're in the middle of a huge redevelopment.

Livingston is 5 minutes in the car and has great shopping. Huge Tesco, Sainsbury's, Aldi, asda and Lidl all really close.

Armadale is the same. Would highly recommend both 😁

Kay Oh yes, oh dear. I think I'm mixing threads. Whoops sorry

Well in the absence of a budget I would recommend East Renfrewshire - Clarkston, Giffnock, Eaglesham. Two train routes to town. Schools and nurseries good with a few good private nurseries. Nice houses. Buy an old lady's house, do it up and extend

Bearsden too

I always liked Strathbungo too. Shawlands Academy has a good reputation these days

cheeseandcrackers77 just my personal opinion.......

No sign of the OP coming back to reply then?

See, I would recommend my area - good bus and rail links - bus to GCC and direct trains to CC, Balloch and Helensborough one way, Edinburgh the other, small supermarket and shops in walking distance, larger supermarket, PO and library 5 mins drive or 10 to 15 mins walk. Our primary school has an excellent reputation and since it moved to the new building now has an attached nursery. Busy community centre and COS church with lots going on. Nice wee park with play area, games court and tots part. On a clear day I can see for miles from the top of the park (it's on a hill, former manor house estate), across to hills and fields. The HS is very well equipped but has a large catchment area, including some more deprived places as we are in NE.

It's a testimony to the appeal of the area that a large proportion of the houses - 30s two and three bed semis and 3-4 home terraces - have been extended in some way - people would sooner adapt than move.

We are also English (NW) and have had no bother, quite a few other English people around too.

But anyway, coming from London, I imagine the OP is looking for somewhere a bit posher than NE though.

Its bloody Bearsden because its a really unremarkable suburb that somehow gets disproportionately recommended on mumsnet.
Its really overpriced there and I just do not get the attraction, unless its just the mere fact of it being a middle class enclave.

The thing is about people coming from London is that they're used to living in slightly scruffy area's, cheek by jowl with poor people. Because that's what London's like.
So why mumsnetters seem to move from there to Glasgow and then gravitate towards the same few naice area's is beyond me. Unless the point of the move is to isolate themselves with more people like themselves. In which case, why choose Glasgow? ^a predominately working class city"?
Its honestly beyond me.

Anyhow: I think we need to know OP's budget before we can properly advise.

I agree about bloody Bearsden. I feel the same way about East Renfrewshire and I live there! All those bloody unremarkable bungalows that go for silly prices!!

Fucking hell unlimited, that's a bit of a rant!

I don't disagree actually but was answering what I thought was being asked. I would live in the city but I wanted a garden for the weans (even though I can't get the wee fuckers off screens now). Will sell it and move into town as soon as they fuck off

Hi all WOW! what a great response. I think we are leaning more towards south side.. But seems like there is a lot of great response from west supporters. Our budget is about £1000 pm. We would prefer house, buy don't mind flat.

Need more help with nursery names I need to contact ASAP!! please if any of you have kids and are happy with nurseries they have been to, or are going to, or if you have any recommendations from friends of yours please share them.

..... (Ok so sorry im new to mumsnet and had finally geaduated yesterday lol)...everythings a bit crazy!!

Ok so just went through all the messages Again...didn't realise there was as many as there are.. a lot of info and nursery names too. I'm going to have to get googling.

I'm not working. Will just be hubby working in central. My son will be three next month so I'm it will be nursery place I'm looking for, not school yet

We are renting first... I font think I would have the guts to buy outright without even knowing Glasgow.

We have no family or friends in Glasgow, so we are free to move anywhere... I will have three kids with a 19 months age gap between each of them, I DONT WANT TO GO CRAZY!! so I need nearby family entertainment, groups, nurseries etc. Not fussed about pubs, restaurants, cafes etc near by, whenever we want to go out as a family we can travel