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**Springburn** - Depends where. Steer clear of Lenzie Terrace and the streets immediately surrounding the Glasgow club/swimming pool. The streets near to the college are ok. Keppochhill is also ok. Stay away from anything near any high flats. I'd also say stay away from everything branching off of Hawthorn Street.

**Low Balornock** - Balornock is mostly fine, but has a couple of sketchy pockets. Stay away from the high flats at Edgefauld Road. All the streets between Springburn Park and Broomfield Road are decent enough.

**Riddrie** - Good. Everything west of Cumbernauld Road is desirable. I expect prices in this area to go up in years to come. The "gentrification sprawl" will extend to Riddrie once it has finished in Dennistoun.

**Haghill** - I would avoid. It might seem like an extension of Dennistoun, but it's still a bit rough.

**Parkhead** - Will highly depend on what street and your neighbours. Don't write the area off completely, but do your homework on each specific street and close before deciding.

**Camlachie** - Historic place, name hardly used today. Most of Camlachie is now the Forge Retail Park. The only bit of Camlachie that still has houses today is the southern fringe of it, which would be known as Barrowfield today. Nowhere near as bad today as it used to be, but I would still avoid.

**Bridgeton** - Seems to be on the up. Can get noisy/busy. Decent access to city centre. Excellent access to Glasgow Green. Plenty of amenities. Early signs of gentrification happening here.

**Mile End** - This is in Calton. Not a terrible bit, but you could do better.

**Dalmarnock** - Bridgeton,Dalmarnock ... Tomato, Tamata.

**Shawfield** - Not sure if any housing exists in Shawfield. Nearest would come under Oatlands/Richmond Park or Bridgeton/Dalmarnock.

**Polmade** - Mostly industrial. Can't picture any housing that would actually come under this area.

**Oatlands** - Decent. Most estates agents will list this as Richmond Park. Modern housing stock. A wee bit disconnected amenity wise though.

**Hutchesontown / Port Eglinton /Laurieston** - Lumping these 3 together as they are all the same and are all near each other. Rough around the edges visually, but decent enough. Safe enough. Good access to City Centre and the South Side main drags.

**Tradeston** - Mostly industrial. The major housing development in this area would be the infamous Wallace Street flats. Some people will tell you it's all good, but I would still avoid Wallace Street.

**Kinning park/ Plantation (adding Cessnock to this)** - Good. Easy access to the subway. Reasonably good access to city centre.

**Finnieston/Sandyford/Anderston** - Very Good. Finnieston has loads of good pubs and good food. Excellent access to city centre and west end. Maybe pricey, but worth it.

**Park district** - upmarket, a bit swanky. Save yourself a few quid and do Woodlands instead. Woodlands is right across the road from Park District with most of the same benefits without the silly money.

**Garnethill** - the northwest corner of the city centre. Nothing bad to report really.

**Blythswood** - western and wouth western side of city centre. It's horses for courses, but personally I don't think the city centre is worth living in these days. Better off going 5 minutes in either direction out of the city centre.

**Woodside/Northwoodside** - Mostly fine. Steer clear of the high flats though.

**Rockvilla** - You won't find estate agents listing under this name.

**Keppochill/Petershill** - "East Springburn" if you will. Nothing to write home about, but decent enough. You can do better, but can do a lot worse.

**Sighthill** - not much here just now. It's all being redeveloped and rebuilt. Time will tell if it's a place to be or not.

**St Rollox** - No houses here really. St Rollox (or Saint Roch's) is the area occupied by the big Tesco, Costco and the old railway works. Nearest houses would be Royston, Sighthill and Springburn.

**Garngad** - Name not in use anymore, other than the Garngad pub. It's all called Royston now. Royston is a bit rough.

**Dennistoun** - Good. I'd personally recommend staying north of Duke Street, but others may disagree. Good access to city centre.

**Calton** - There's some good housing in Calton. A couple of rough bits. Overall, it's ok, but honestly, if you're looking at Calton I would say just go for Dennistoun instead.

**Merchant city** - The eastern side of the city centre. All good. Maybe a bit noisy in places at times.

**Balgrayhill** - The high flats in Springburn. I'd say avoid. Had myself a number of incidents dropping off customers here including being assaulted.

**Barmulloch** - Avoid. Very, very schemey.

**Blackhill** - A wee bit rough around the edges, but it's decent enough. I would say if you're not familiar with Blackhill /Provanmill then it's not really for you though.

**Cowcaddens** - Mostly fine. Ugly as fuck, but you shouldn't have problems here. Excellent (walking distance) access to city centre.

**Townhead** - Decent enough. Big influx of students in recent years. Excellent (walking distance) access to city centre.

**Port Dundas** - Mostly industrial, but you do have Speirs Wharf, which is a bit upmarket. They are also building some housing on Dundashill. From what I gather it'll be a bit upmarket similar to Speirs Wharf.