Always find it amusing how this forum seems to exist on posters asking where they should live and always being given the same recommendations for a relatively small number of places.
As we all know there are positives and negatives to every area, how you make a decision is completely subjective and fully dependent on needs/circumstances.
But there are some places that always get recommended that I genuinely would rather live on a Vietnamese houseboat than stay in.
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Troon - For various reasons, the beach is often overcrowded and dirty, not much to do, seems stuck somewhere between the 1830’s and the 1930’s and although the schools seem to get praised here the only family I one who sent there kids here had a terrible time. Anecdotally a good percentage of clients I helped move here have not lasted very long, so I’m clearly onto something.
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Newton Mearns - I can literally see this from my attic window, have lived close by for decades and have a ton of friends/acquaintances from there (some of whom) I’m even quite fond of. However for some reason I really hate the place, it just has this almost deathly atmosphere of staleness that makes me feel odd. Giffnock feels like a nice city area, Clarkston a nice bustling wee town but Mearns is where any atmosphere goes to die. It’s like a soulless housing estate on steroids. I think this is because it was a small rural village which has exponentially grown without having amenities or community infrastructure built for it.
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Quarriers Village - It’s like a horror movie. I don’t feel the need to say any more.
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Bearsden - would really like it here as find the people to be much friendlier in general than the other ‘East’ and the fact it’s so close to amazing countryside but the constant droning of planes is like nails on a blackboard to me. If the flight path moved I’d happily live here.
Is there anywhere else people consider desirable that you just wouldn’t live?