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Pregnant and moving house dilema

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imissbrie · 23/10/2011 00:21

So I'm currently 11 weeks pregnant and due to have my first baby in May (exciting). We are planning on moving house in January 2012.

So there's so much to think about, location, size, schools! I've lived in the west end for the last 5 years so I know the area very well. We are renting and hoping to pay 700quid a month for a 2 bedroom. Anyway all the flats I'm looking at just don't seem to cut it. They all look shabby and studenty. Also I don't want to live in a building full of 18 year olds! So I've been thinking maybe Partick, Whiteinch, Broomlands or Hyndland kinda area. My other half is a bar manager in the west end also and works anti social hours so living locally would save taxi fairs. The spanner in the works is the south side, Shawlands! I don't know the area well but the flats are beautiful and so much larger. Basically I get so much more for my money. And no students! Basically ideal, apart from the taxi prices which would be about 5 times a week. Can anyone give me some advice?

Thanks in advance!

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AitchTwoOh · 25/10/2011 09:36

well i don't think i made any such claim, to be fair. in any part of this city (nay country) some people will judge you on your accent and elocution... it's just one of the markers that people use to get a handle on 'who' you are. hence giraffes saying that she changes hers according to the situation.

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imissbrie · 25/10/2011 20:26

Woops, sorry if any offence was caused it was really not meant like that. It's kinda a tongue in cheek joke that some ppl from the west end put on a posher accent. Eg in the tv show still game, the two older guys that say "och aye for the banter" if you remember, some people call it the Glasgow uni accent, has its own Facebook page. Please don't think I was intentionally being derogatory, it was totally meant in a tongue in cheek humour way but as this is the internet and you can't hear mine or others tone its been taken the wrong way.

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imissbrie · 25/10/2011 20:31

So anyway back to the subject at hand I have decided to stay with what I know and live in the west end. It's closer to my mum, who is shilling to baby sit for when I want to go back to work and I know the area well and I have friends near by. Moving to the south side at this stage would maybe be too much upheaval I wouldn't like to feel lonely as a new mum in a new area, this way is simpler. :)

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suzikettles · 25/10/2011 20:39

That's a Kelvinside accent surely?

I love - Ok it's about Morningside, but I've net enough ladies from both places to know that they are truly sisters (although the Edinburgh ones would be more stingy with the tea Wink)

AitchTwoOh · 25/10/2011 20:44

yes there was that great scotrail ad in the 80s, where the two old biddies went 'kelvinsaiiide... MORNINGSAIIIIDE'.

betheldeath · 25/10/2011 20:55

Yeah same, the west end accent is quite a well known joke in most circles so didn't want anyone to get anyone's hackles up. The same way that anyone who lives in Troon laughs at the way the train lady says "The next stop is Trrrrrrrrroooooooon."

If I really had an issue with accents I think I'd have been born in the wrong country Wink

Jergens · 25/10/2011 21:22

That's a sensible decision OP. I live across the world fr my mom and particularly since having DD I would just love to live near her. The extra help will be invaluable. Good luck with everything!

AitchTwoOh · 25/10/2011 21:48

i am not from the west end and have never heard of anyone mentioning a west end accent, i do think you have crossed some wires there with the kelvinside thing tbh. definitely heard of that.

prettybird · 26/10/2011 23:35

I know you've deiced to stay in the Wst End for the very good reason that your mum is close by, but I thought I'd just add my voice to Bethelbeth's in defence of the southside.

I'm a Northsider by upbringing (Ok, according to dh, not technically Glasgow as it was Bearsden/Milngavie - but I have always considered myself Glaswegian) but since meeting and marrying dh have lived on the Southside - initially in Shawlands (Bellwood Street, which I would recommend highly) and laterly in Pollokshields.

We spent two years looking for something we liked on the Northside (so that we could be closer to Gleneagles my parents and the countryside north of Glasgow) when we wanted to move from our Shawlands flat, before decding to have a look south side. We found the house we are now in in our first week of looking - more than half the price of an equivalent house in the West End.

We have good cafes and delis close by, Maxwell Park and Pollok Park are within walking distance, the roads are quiet (ds, who is now 11 can cycle to school himself), there are good transport links - bus, underground, train and motorway... I could go on and on :)

EC22 · 08/11/2011 17:00

I live in Maryhill, have done for the last 8 years and I can't fault it at all, walking distance to town and west end and flats so much cheaper.

I definitely would stay close to your mum!

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