Moving to Glasgow /East Ren

[GrumpySwivelHead]

Hi everyone

I am looking to relocate to the lovely Glasgow from Northampton, and wondered if anyone would be able to impart a bit of advice.

The reason for the relocation is my husband is working up there (nr Bridge of weir) while I am working f/t down South and looking after the 3 DCs and it's not working, so I'm looking to try to carry on doing my job from Glasgow and rent a place up there while we find somewhere we want to buy. I've visited a couple of times and really loved the city and the outside villages.

The options we are considering is either somewhere pretty rural in the Gryffe catchment (so Bridge of weir or Houston) or South End of Paisley also associated with a good school.

Just wondered if anyone had any advice about whether it would be better to go for the small village or Paisley as an alternative. We haven't really thought about moving to Glasgow itself as I have no idea which areas would be ok? The most important aspect of the move is making sure the DCs are ok with the schools (I need a primary and secondary) because I really don't want them to have to move schools again when we choose to buy.

Any thoughts about schooling and location would be very much welcome.

Thanks very much

GSH

Forgot to add - I also can't figure out how child are works for school kids. At the moment the kids go to a breakfast club and I have an after school nanny. I'd love to set something like this up again. Does anyone know how many schools provide the option of breakfast club and are there any after school nannies about?!

I have no idea about Bridge of Weir or Houston but in terms of East Ren, all the schools are good - though you would probably want to be in the catchment for Williamwood Secondary (not sure for primary but think netherlee gets a good name). That would mean living in Clarkston or Busby, which are suburbs rather than villages but lovely communities in their own right.

If you wanted Glasgow itself, west end would be your best bet (in my biased west end opinion!). Good luck!!

Thank you cmof2

There is an English MNer SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius who moved up to Scotland and her three boys went to Gryffe High and she's been very happy with the school. The two older boys are now away at Uni (one in England and the other in Scotland) and the third is also planning on going to Uni.

She lives in one of the small villages you mention.

Why don't you PM her?

Brilliant, thanks prettybird.

Currently driving myself mad looking at rightmove!