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Author	dl064
Comment	>Think we all agree that, at least in the centre (and ignoring Leith, Wester Hailes and Edinburgh's Sighthill) it seems safer I lived in both for 5 years evenly. I always think it's a bit unfair that Glasgow gets appraised in one homogenous lump, whereas Edinburgh gets a bit surgically split up for the purposes of comparison. I had a flatmate who used to say you could cycle Edinburgh in an hour, and that always pissed me off: no, you can cycle Newington, Leith, Princess St. and the Meadows; what she chose to consider as Edinburgh's outer circumference.
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Created	Mon 27th Jul 2020 3:14pm
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>Think we all agree that, at least in the centre (and ignoring Leith, Wester Hailes and Edinburgh's Sighthill) it seems safer

I lived in both for 5 years evenly. I always think it's a bit unfair that Glasgow gets appraised in one homogenous lump, whereas Edinburgh gets a bit surgically split up for the purposes of comparison.

I had a flatmate who used to say you could cycle Edinburgh in an hour, and that always pissed me off: no, you can cycle Newington, Leith, Princess St. and the Meadows; what she chose to consider as Edinburgh's outer circumference.