Hercules - I live in one of the "multi-cultural" areas in the south side of Glasgow that has been metioned by others.
We're in Pollokshields, which is a mix of ultra posh and then, in East Pollokshileds, very Asian. We live right on the cusp, ie one end of our street is more "asian" than the other - and we're half way along the street.
It doesn't bother us - the up-side is that we are very close to a fantastic shopping street with loads of greengrocers! (Whereas further into the original garden suburb, there are no shops whatsoever).
All the housing is beautiful Victorian - from tenements in East Pollokshields to beautiful big Victorian stone villas. The streets are all extremely wide - this was a planned suburb that pre-dates Hampstead Garden Village.
We live in the top half (my dh calls it a horizontal semi) of a big Vicotrian villa - the first floor and attic floors, which consists of (on the first floor) a large dining kitchen, large dining room/study, enormous living room (complete with orignal plaster friese), large bedroom and a dressing room/playroom/wahtever we decide once we've ripped out the old (small) kitchen and bathroom and then on the attic floor, a large room with a dormer window (currently ds's), another decent sized double bedroom with a velux, a large landing area which we intend to turn into a snug and a second bathrrom, plus an airing/junk area where the boiler is. We also have an enromous garden. We reckon the house is currently worth about £280,000 maybe £300,000 - but tihs is a LOT less than you would pay in the West End or in Bearsden/Milngavie.
Plus it only takes me 15 minutes in rush hour to drive into the city centre and a bit more to get home - which is actually why I prefer to cyle as it is only 3 miles!
The down side is the schooling - unusually for Glasgow. The local primary school is almost totally Asian - which in itself is not a problem - but the fact that for 98% of the children, English is an additional language IS a problem - which by all accounts, is not particularly well dealt with. We want to try to get ds into the school that is a wee bit further away (still less than 2 miles), which may well have similar proportions, but apparently has a fantastic headmistress. (I'd actually quite like ds to be exposed to different cultures rather than have to resort to a private school, which I have issues with).
I love it in Glasgow - plenty of culture, theatre, museums, parks, fantastic shopping and the country side on your door step. And when Scots complain about rush hours - it is nothing compared to what the English are used to! (I have lived in the South East, and in Bolton and at one point was commuting between Bolton and Leeds!).
Someone has suggested talking to the GTC in Scotland, which is good advice. From memory, in Scotland, at least in the State system, you are only allowed to teach what you got your degree in AND what you did your teacher training in - but that may have changed (that's my recollection from Uni 20 years ago!).
I've been in Glasgow since I was 3 - we came here from South Africa, which Mum and Dad left because of the politics. Although we emigrated to NZ in my teens, we came back because Mum & Dad were homesick for Scotland - the culture and the open mindedness!
If you want to talk more, get in touch via "Contact another talker" - I'd be happy to wax on at length!