where i lay my hat...

i moved to glasgow in november 2005 i think... sometimes it feels like longer, other times it feels like i've not been here any length of time at all. i hadn't been planning on moving but i had a choice of be made redundant or move and i figured i had more security staying with barclays than going back to bar and nightclub work so i packed up and headed south.

i'd probably only been to glasgow a handful of times since i started to drive. i actually refused to even drive in the city, if we were heading through for a night out i'd drive to stepps then get a train the rest of the way! i've always preferred edinburgh to glasgow and would have preferred to stay in dundee where i'd grown up and where my friends all lived but sometimes you have to make lemonade.

there's always the issue when you move to a new city of trying to figure out where the hell to live. i rented for a bit after moving and almost moved back to dundee a few times until i finally decided to buy a place and settle into live on the west coast. problem was i had no idea where was good and where was awful and thus ended up living in the questionable area that is known as springburn. now my flat is pretty nice. there's 2 big double bedrooms, a huge lounge and a dining kitchen which is awesome. 

the issue i have is the owners of some of the other properties round here. the owners that live in the street are great, it's the owners who've rented out their flats and don't care about ensuring a good level of maintenance of the street, doesn't affect them so they just don't care.

in the past few months there seems to have been an improvement in the street. the council seems a bit more interested so hopefully soon these absentee landlords will be forced to start looking after their flats.

until then though i'm going to put my flat on the market and hopefully manage to sell up and move away. 

although, even after 5 years in the city i still don't know much about where would be a good place to live...