| Comment | Lived in Aberdeen for 7 years & moved back (home) to Glasgow over the summer. I think part of the reason it gets a bad rep is you have to make an effort with Aberdeen, whereas Glasgow is much easier to live in. Down here the people are (generally) a bit friendlier, there is more to do & it’s not as bloody cold. I first moved up when oil was booming & it had a sort of ‘look at me, money money’ persona which has died down as oil prices dipped & (a lot of young engineering) people moved away. That hit Aberdeen hard, but I’d actually say it was overall a good thing because the art scene has really flourished over the last few years with things like the Nuart murals, the Spectra festival of light & other programmes. It’s never going to compete with Glasgow city centre - partially due to size (it’s about a third of the population) and also distance from a lot of people (who travel in from Aberdeenshire) but it has a lot of nice restaurants now. Where it holds its own is the proximity to coast & countryside - I really miss that now I’m back in ‘town’.
TLDR: Aberdeen is what you make of it, you just need to dig a bit deeper. |
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