Kinda stating the obvious but it’s weird how quickly you stop appreciating the architecture when you live there. Legitimately stunning feats of design and craftsmanship. But you walk past these buildings a few hundred times and just stop caring. Sad really. Normal I suppose. But still kinda sad.
It’s mad to think about some of these buildings being nearly a millennium old. Some of them have outlived entire empires. They’re older than a lot of countries. To be able to do all this by hand, centuries before steel frames and electricity is just madness. Especially when you look at the shite they build today.
Just walked in the door from a weekend @ the royal college of physicians in the town centre.
It is a beautiful place to visit and look at , but i absolutely could not stay there .
I much prefer our countries open spaces and wild places , But the excuse to dust off the kilt and sgian dubh is allways welcome.
Lived here for 15 years and I never get jaded about it. Any time I get the 26 bus I make sure to put my phone down and appreciate that view across the city and Holyrood Park. Magnificent.
To the Glaswegians predictably seething in the comments, other places in Scotland are allowed to get praise, too. It’s adorable how much you’re obsessed with putting us down while we don’t really think about you at all 😘
Scotland was the first country I visited when I started going abroad. Stayed a week in Edinburgh and fell in love with the city. Would really love to go back in the near future
I’m a little tired of all these comparisons, there’s no such thing in my opinion, because there are many places which I like and that doesn’t need to be a number one.
The main thing I think of about Edinburgh is up-hill both ways.
Even better if you leave the Old Town
Edinburgh is the **prettiest** city in the UK
FTFY
It’s a shit place to visit if you aren’t a tourist, shit to go shopping in and shit to live there. Far too hilly.
Source: I live less than 30 miles from Edinburgh.
Its not. Its stupidly expensive and crawling with tourists
Architecture is beautiful, but having lived both there and in Glasgow, I would say Edinburgh’s nicer to visit while Glasgow’s nicer to live in 😌
It’s not even the best city in Scotland
Tell me you’ve never been to Hull, without telling me you’ve never been to Hull.
Grew up there. Would very likely never live there again.
Honestly, it’s boring and _far_ too expensive, would be literally impossible on local wages for me to replicate the lifestyle I had growing up. The nightlife is well down on what it was during my childhood, the night buses aren’t as good either. A lot of people are becoming snippier and ruder every time I go back. There’s just not that much to do. The roads are terrible, traffic is terrible, it’s dirty and falling apart. The shopping is also surprisingly mediocre too.
And much of what lies off the “tourist trail” is just grubby grey misery. Dual carriageways, flat-roofed pubs, drugs, crime, the occasional gang.
I now live in a part of England most people on this sub would never have heard of and I actually prefer it. Cheaper, quieter, well connected, better weather, gives me better commuter access to better paid work.
I do appreciate the wee lectures from tourists, students and newly arrived English derelicts (often fleeing a dysfunctional mess of their own making for what has been sold to them as something between Narnia and wartime Switzerland) on how I’m wrong about my own hometown of nearly 30 years, though. Never stop learning.
It might be the most attractive but it’s not the best.
It’s not even the best city in lowland Scotland.
It’s fuckin lovely intit
As a wedgie, it pains me me to say Edinburgh is a beautiful city to walk around , it is straight out of a Victorian movie set and you can see the influence it had on the harry potter books .
Most beautiful? Yeah, it’s definitely up there.
Best? Absolutely not. It’s not even the best city in Scotland never mind the UK 🤣
I disagree. I lived there for eight years and it’s the only city in Scotland I absolutely wouldn’t consider living in now under any circumstances. It’s too congested, it’s too expensive, it’s too touristy. A lot of the pubs and restaurants at both low and high end are shite.
I need to drive for work plus short distances due to mobility problems – the council absolutely despises car owners and does everything in its power to make it as unpleasant and inconvenient as possible to drive in. I’ve seen Highland roads with passing places in better condition than A roads in Edinburgh. Finally, for the price of my spacious three bedroom flat in Perth I couldn’t even get a one bedroom studio flat in Edinburgh – moving there would result in an immediate drop in quality of life for me despite being on a decent wage.
Edinburgh remains ok for a night out but it’s become more and more of a shithole with every passing year and I do not miss it.
It’s a shame princes street now looks like a total dump full of pound and tacky gift shops or empty shops
*WEEGIE TRIGGERING INTENSIFIES*
Nice too look at and visit but wouldn’t live there again
Where’s the picture of North Bridge on a payday Friday night?
It was amazing living there during the first Covid lockdown. The city centre was empty – no students, tourists, or commuters – which allowed me to appreciate the architecture more. It was a tranquil, historic playground for those few weeks.Â
It’s not the best city in Scotland let alone the UK
Edinburgh is beautiful, noted, but once you’ve done the touristy stuff, and outside of the Fringe, it’s remarkably dull. There really isn’t a lot going on that isn’t terribly earnest and middle class.Â
Aberdeen probably has a better native music scene, and that’s saying something.
It’s an incredible city, without doubt. There’s nowhere in the UK I would rather live, and if it wasn’t for the weather here, it would be up there with the very best places to live in Europe, imo.
Like most things in life, you take for granted things that become familiar to you, and I do feel as though some Edinburgh locals are guilty of this.
To look at, maybe.
Nah, pass… it’s full of people from Edinburgh after all /j
I love London for the Museums, Greenwich, and the fact I got engaged there.
But if I were to move to UK, I’d pick Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Oh dear, I’d hate to see the worst…
Met my wife here in the 90’s. Chased each other’s careers around the UK for a few years but always swore we’d move back, and did so ~20 years ago. Been here ever since. Our favourite city in the world.
Yes, it’s beautiful, interesting, full of history, Scottish culture and it has amazing open spaces. But if you live here you have to look beyond the problems that every city has (maybe even engage in making a small positive difference) if you want to know it in depth, and not as just an expensive tourist trap. Tourists come because it’s pretty, people love it because it’s complicated.
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Full of cunts
Kinda stating the obvious but it’s weird how quickly you stop appreciating the architecture when you live there. Legitimately stunning feats of design and craftsmanship. But you walk past these buildings a few hundred times and just stop caring. Sad really. Normal I suppose. But still kinda sad.
It’s mad to think about some of these buildings being nearly a millennium old. Some of them have outlived entire empires. They’re older than a lot of countries. To be able to do all this by hand, centuries before steel frames and electricity is just madness. Especially when you look at the shite they build today.
https://preview.redd.it/5wuk8dnno1wf1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f4d88d5062138458e03473d1b927e4697a1aab9
Not even the best city in Scotland
It might have the best architecture.
Just walked in the door from a weekend @ the royal college of physicians in the town centre.
It is a beautiful place to visit and look at , but i absolutely could not stay there .
I much prefer our countries open spaces and wild places , But the excuse to dust off the kilt and sgian dubh is allways welcome.
Lived here for 15 years and I never get jaded about it. Any time I get the 26 bus I make sure to put my phone down and appreciate that view across the city and Holyrood Park. Magnificent.
To the Glaswegians predictably seething in the comments, other places in Scotland are allowed to get praise, too. It’s adorable how much you’re obsessed with putting us down while we don’t really think about you at all 😘
Scotland was the first country I visited when I started going abroad. Stayed a week in Edinburgh and fell in love with the city. Would really love to go back in the near future
I’m a little tired of all these comparisons, there’s no such thing in my opinion, because there are many places which I like and that doesn’t need to be a number one.
My friend, you double posted, I think
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/2H77S1eySv
The main thing I think of about Edinburgh is up-hill both ways.
Even better if you leave the Old Town
Edinburgh is the **prettiest** city in the UK
FTFY
It’s a shit place to visit if you aren’t a tourist, shit to go shopping in and shit to live there. Far too hilly.
Source: I live less than 30 miles from Edinburgh.
Its not. Its stupidly expensive and crawling with tourists
Architecture is beautiful, but having lived both there and in Glasgow, I would say Edinburgh’s nicer to visit while Glasgow’s nicer to live in 😌
It’s not even the best city in Scotland
Tell me you’ve never been to Hull, without telling me you’ve never been to Hull.
Grew up there. Would very likely never live there again.
Honestly, it’s boring and _far_ too expensive, would be literally impossible on local wages for me to replicate the lifestyle I had growing up. The nightlife is well down on what it was during my childhood, the night buses aren’t as good either. A lot of people are becoming snippier and ruder every time I go back. There’s just not that much to do. The roads are terrible, traffic is terrible, it’s dirty and falling apart. The shopping is also surprisingly mediocre too.
And much of what lies off the “tourist trail” is just grubby grey misery. Dual carriageways, flat-roofed pubs, drugs, crime, the occasional gang.
I now live in a part of England most people on this sub would never have heard of and I actually prefer it. Cheaper, quieter, well connected, better weather, gives me better commuter access to better paid work.
I do appreciate the wee lectures from tourists, students and newly arrived English derelicts (often fleeing a dysfunctional mess of their own making for what has been sold to them as something between Narnia and wartime Switzerland) on how I’m wrong about my own hometown of nearly 30 years, though. Never stop learning.
It might be the most attractive but it’s not the best.
It’s not even the best city in lowland Scotland.
It’s fuckin lovely intit
As a wedgie, it pains me me to say Edinburgh is a beautiful city to walk around , it is straight out of a Victorian movie set and you can see the influence it had on the harry potter books .
Most beautiful? Yeah, it’s definitely up there.
Best? Absolutely not. It’s not even the best city in Scotland never mind the UK 🤣
I disagree. I lived there for eight years and it’s the only city in Scotland I absolutely wouldn’t consider living in now under any circumstances. It’s too congested, it’s too expensive, it’s too touristy. A lot of the pubs and restaurants at both low and high end are shite.
I need to drive for work plus short distances due to mobility problems – the council absolutely despises car owners and does everything in its power to make it as unpleasant and inconvenient as possible to drive in. I’ve seen Highland roads with passing places in better condition than A roads in Edinburgh. Finally, for the price of my spacious three bedroom flat in Perth I couldn’t even get a one bedroom studio flat in Edinburgh – moving there would result in an immediate drop in quality of life for me despite being on a decent wage.
Edinburgh remains ok for a night out but it’s become more and more of a shithole with every passing year and I do not miss it.
It’s a shame princes street now looks like a total dump full of pound and tacky gift shops or empty shops
*WEEGIE TRIGGERING INTENSIFIES*
Nice too look at and visit but wouldn’t live there again
Where’s the picture of North Bridge on a payday Friday night?
It was amazing living there during the first Covid lockdown. The city centre was empty – no students, tourists, or commuters – which allowed me to appreciate the architecture more. It was a tranquil, historic playground for those few weeks.Â
It’s not the best city in Scotland let alone the UK
Edinburgh is beautiful, noted, but once you’ve done the touristy stuff, and outside of the Fringe, it’s remarkably dull. There really isn’t a lot going on that isn’t terribly earnest and middle class.Â
Aberdeen probably has a better native music scene, and that’s saying something.
It’s an incredible city, without doubt. There’s nowhere in the UK I would rather live, and if it wasn’t for the weather here, it would be up there with the very best places to live in Europe, imo.
Like most things in life, you take for granted things that become familiar to you, and I do feel as though some Edinburgh locals are guilty of this.
To look at, maybe.
Nah, pass… it’s full of people from Edinburgh after all /j
I love London for the Museums, Greenwich, and the fact I got engaged there.
But if I were to move to UK, I’d pick Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Oh dear, I’d hate to see the worst…
Met my wife here in the 90’s. Chased each other’s careers around the UK for a few years but always swore we’d move back, and did so ~20 years ago. Been here ever since. Our favourite city in the world.
Yes, it’s beautiful, interesting, full of history, Scottish culture and it has amazing open spaces. But if you live here you have to look beyond the problems that every city has (maybe even engage in making a small positive difference) if you want to know it in depth, and not as just an expensive tourist trap. Tourists come because it’s pretty, people love it because it’s complicated.
*for tourists
No it’s not it’s Aberdeen
To visit, probably. To live in, nah.
Sure is
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