scottish mumsnetters please

[hercules]

we currently live in outer london and will needto buy a 3 bed place in the next 2-3 years and there is no way we can do this.
I'm a secondary re teacher and dh is a supermarket manager.
Someone recommended Glasgow. What is it like and is it multicultural as we are a mixed family and dont want ds and dd to be the odd ones out.

How easy is it to teach in scotland?

tia

Mudda - this is spooky! Where did you study? I was in Edinburgh, and did my teacher training in Glasgow.

Mudda, my DH is from Kilsyth/Twechar and I am from Waterside (which is not too far from Lenzie.)

Paula- I'm on the other side of kirky from where you grew up. Village just along the road.

Sounds great Spots!

Hi, another Scottish mumsnetter here, I also didn't realise there were so many of us.

don't want to reveal exactly where i stay but I will say I'm somewhere in Tayside, anonyminity(sp?) is good sometimes. Dh is originally from just outside Glasgow and still has family there.

Susanmt - studied at Glasgow, hoping to do teacher training when we move back. Our degree sounds really similar - I specialised later on in more cultural geography but I did do first year geology and loved it!

Muddaofsubburbia - dh did his geography degree at Glasgow too - but it owuld have been well before his time. He loved geology, so is always telling me (and showing) about how Scotland's landsacpe was shaped by the glaciers. He would have specialised in glacial geomorphology, but the particular lecturer had the temerity to take a sabbatical. I ithink he ended up doing sometihng coastal - I know he spent some time on Lewis looking at the machair. He also did teacher training (at St Andrews college), but, as he puts it, he has never taught in anger.

Hi Another MNer based in Scotland - I live in Edinburgh and have been here for 7 years now, originally from England - I still need subtitles on to watch Chewin the Fat Been to 1 meetup at Little Marcos in Edinburgh - hi Rubyone, Tabitha, Loobie, & JanHR (now MB?). Nice to see that there's a few of us around in Scotland.

He went to the High School. Two of his brothers still live there.

Hercules - this thread has moved away from your original question to become a virtual meet-up of Scottish mumsnetters!

I had another thought about teaching in Scotland - I don't think the regulations regarding what you are allowed to teach are as strict in the private sector.

The other thing is that we have focussed in on the Asian community as examples of multiculturalism - which is perhaps not the best example: sadly, although in the past it was more "integrated" and mixed - the Asians seeing themselves as both Scottish and Asian - it seems to be coming more self-contained - although that my perception may be biased by living on top of the single largest community, which is large enough to BECOME self-contained.

The Asian community is the single largest ethnic community (and the Glaswegian Asians tend to be Punjabi, rather than Bengali, which I am told is more common in England), but there are also large Chinese, Italian and Polish communities. As Highlander said, there are not many Afro-Caribbeans - but that's not to say that there aren't any!

Glasgow is a city of shoppers - so I wouldn't have thought your dh would have had difficulty in finding a job!

Any closer to coming to a decision?

The English are the largetst ethnic minority in Scotland - at least 1 in 10 except up to 40% in Edinburgh - will have to dig out the stats!

another vote for inverness
I won't say exactly where I live, I'll just say it is close to Inverness, but not quite close enough for Tesco home delivery

Muddaofsubburbia - yes, I should have included the English! Especially since I went to an "English" university, St. Andrews, which had more English students than Scottish ones!

Hercules

You could try looking at this site for a taste of the west end

westend

Amazingly I dreamt about sending you this last night so it must be an omen

Soozi - we all went to the Academy so doubt I would know him, the two school sdidn't mix very well LOL!

JanZ - I live in Harris now but joined on to Lewis, the machair is amazing here, we were at a specially fab bit at the weekend with loads of rare flowers etc.

Mudda - I also got out of physical Geog - did 2 great years of it but it was all getting a little too mathematical for me by then! I specialised in development and health issues in my honours years and loved it, did my dissertation on development issues in Brazil. You would be thinking of going to Jordanhill when you move back? I loved it there, had a great year and there were quite a lot of mature students on the course. I think that the staff of the Geog department have pretty much totally changed since I was there, they were all pretty old when I was there!

Actually, I think there has been a recent change in entry requirements for teacher training colleges. You used to only require to have done 2 years of a subject at university to be able to teach it (providing you'd did the Postgraduate Certification of Education in this subject too), but now you need to have done at least 3 years. I think that's right. Hope it's clear.

Hercules, your head must be spinning at all of this. I didn't mean to suggest that it was only Asians as our multicultural section. When I lived in Hyndland, in the West End, I had a few friends of Afro-Caribbean origin (although they were Scottish and to be honest we were all too busy going out and having fun to discuss serious things like different cultures. I would imagine that means we were pretty well integrated, as it should be everywhere.)

Come to Perth.

Lived here for 7 years. Moved to SA for 13 years, came back,

Yeh there are bad things. Aren't there everywhere, but good schools. Fairly small communiy (don't know whther that good or bad)
Country side all around, IE 5 miles in ANY direction and you in the country.

Lots of primary schools 4 high schools and I have lots of friends that r teachers that love it

Come up and visit, it's tje only place i know that I can drive the the Motorway and have rolling coutryside around me,

I LOVE it

kalex - glad to hear you like Perth so much. I grew up there and my folks still live there, we go there a lot. Are you from Perth (school etc?). One day I will find some long lost friend on MN, I am sure!!