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OH NO they are closing 22 schools in Edinburgh

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nailpolish · 17/08/2007 09:18

not dds school thank GOD

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redrobin · 20/08/2007 16:07

meant to say have always lived here apart from when i was off colonising london!

expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:07

I'd as soon live in Hell as London.

redrobin · 20/08/2007 16:08

expat we spend a load of time in glencoe for the same reasons as you. you'll have great fun. good luck with move

redrobin · 20/08/2007 16:09

yep London was CRAP - why why why does anyone live there??

expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:09

Cheers, robin!

I'll be looking for a good baby carrier here soon for DD2.

DD1 can walk. It's good for her!

expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:10

I dunno, robin, but I went there from Boulder, Colorado and it did my nut in about a fortnight.

No can do!

Plenty of folk seem to thrive on it.

snowleopard · 20/08/2007 16:16

DP and I also have friends who are from Edinburgh and from other parts of Scotland, as well as from England, Ireland and elsewhere. I would have more Scottish friends here, but quite a few of them have moved to London, which they consider better for their careers than "parochial" Scotland. If my Scottish friends are outnumbered by my non-Scottish ones, that could be something to do with Scottish people not always wanting to know English people/incomers either - like what Pruni said about Oxford. It cuts both ways.

I work at home, DP cycles to work. We shop in local shops (owned by Italians and Bangladeshis) and drink in local pubs - where we're welcome, that is - oh and we did not sell up down south and trade in here, we bought here as first-time buyers. And I live in Scotland and work freelance for English companies. So I leach money out of the London-based economy and pour it all into the local Scottish economy.

Perhaps what you think us incomers "probably" do is not 100% correct because you don't know many of thm.

I thought this was interesting from RedRobin earlier:

"I'm Edinburgh born and bred and since having the DDs virtually all the new people i have met are english. i do live in a posh bit (altho not in a posh house!) and most of the other mums round here conform to what you say, ie have sold houses down south for massivo profits and have bought something fab up here. in fact i had an estate agent round here the other day who said that house prices in this area were inflated by that very fact. none of my friends could afford to live in this area now, sadly."

In other words, your mates are all local and scottish and not English, because you're not mates with those English poeple... even though they're your neighbours.

MellowMa · 20/08/2007 16:21

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redrobin · 20/08/2007 16:24

ok snow. i stated fact. i stated that msot of the mums i had met since having DDs were english. if i didn't spell out that they had become friends then please may i do so now. they are my neighbours and by and large they are friends. i have english/russian/welsh/indian friends. my mother is english. my BIL is a kiwi. my MIL is english. my granny is welsh. however my friends who can;t afford to live here are my edinburgh friends, who i have known all my life. what is your point? are you saying i don't mix with anyone other than edinburghers? YOU be careful snowleopard, or you'll m,ake me think the stereotypes bogwobbit generalises about are true. you have made me really angry.

cali · 20/08/2007 16:25

apologies for butting in but Snowleopard the english aren't always welcoming either. I'm from Edinburgh originally and lived in London for a few years until moving to Fife last year. I had several comments made whilst down there that could have been construed as racist, phones put down on me with people saying they couldn't make out my accent (which is not exactly strong). Also being told that I shouldn't be living where I was, despite the fact we had to move because of dh's work!
It doesn't matter who or what you are, if you are different from the majority, there will always be people who think it is ok to be rude or make pretty horrible comments.
I'm not anti english which I'm sure dh will be very pleased about, seeing as how he is a "wannabee jock" his words not mine

Pruners · 20/08/2007 16:26

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expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:27

Well, like I said, I am foreign and we're going soon because cities aren't for us.

BUT, there do seem a lot of posh S. Easterners here.

I don't know if this is true elsewhere, because I'm not from here.

And really couldn't give a fat rat's, cuz we're away and folk are folk wherever you go.

But that's just a general observation is all.

Pruners · 20/08/2007 16:27

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nailpolish · 20/08/2007 16:28

well since i moved to edinburgh i have met nearly everyone in my street (20 houses) and aobut the same number of mums since dd1 started the local primary (last week)
nearly every single one of them is edinburgh born and bred

am i living in a parallel universe or corstorphine

????

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expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:28

Pruni brings up a good point, this city does have a high transient population - students, people just here temporarily, single folk who move on later, etc.

redrobin · 20/08/2007 16:31

of couse expat, all cities do. i think that its because we are all talking about families who are not so transient.

expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:31

People do slag off Edinburgh a bit in other places, too.

Even DH has come across this often enough. 'Oh, you're from Embra? Do you find it snobby there?'

An Aberdonian pal says, 'Edinburgh is an English city that happens to be located in Scotland.'

nailpolish · 20/08/2007 16:32

well they are full of shit then expat
or jealous
or ignorant

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expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:33

He doesn't think so, naily. Instead of saying that and getting snarky, which is just going to fuel their ideas of stereotypical Edinburghers, he asks them why they think that.

I can't see where someone would be jealous. A lot of people like where they live or they wouldn't be there.

And I've heard scathing comments from people born and bred in Edinburgh about Glasgow, so it works both ways.

expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:34

But plenty of people live in Glasgow and love it just as much as others love Edinburgh.

nailpolish · 20/08/2007 16:36

expat have you ever lived on the west coast before

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nailpolish · 20/08/2007 16:37

people are only every nasty about your origins if they are

jealous
ignorant
full of shit

why else ?

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missgriss · 20/08/2007 16:37

Gosh, I thought they were closing the schools because everyone from Edinburgh is moving over the watter to Fife!

They are throwing up houses everywhere. It's a bit depressing really. There won't be any beautiful scenery left soon, just concrete jungles galore

expatinscotland · 20/08/2007 16:41

That's not true, naily.

And to be honest I can't understand why you're getting so nasty about it. Are you allright?

It's a place, it's one place in a big universe.

And so of course it won't suit everyone.

Why does that bother you so much?

It doesn't even bother many folk who are from there.

People think all kinds of things about my home state, Texas, and the people who are from there.

And some of these things are true!

But it does neither me nor the many kind folks who love it there (including my sister) to go all ghetto at people who express their opinion of the place.

I just say it wasn't for me so I moved on.

nailpolish · 20/08/2007 16:43

i am annoyed that everyone is slagging each other off because of where they come from or where they live

maiking assumptions

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