| Comment | > Being fae Edinburgh which almost all would consider the pure posh bit of Scotland as 25% in kids in Edinburgh go to private school
Few points:
1. Edinburgh and Glasgow are not homogeneous lumps where one is posh and the other's not: you get variations in deprivation in both. Some parts of Glasgow are posher than some parts of Edinburgh and vice versa; although on average Edinburgh tends to be less deprived, it's definitely not a slam dunk in every part of the city.
2. I would imagine Glasgow is, as you suggest, more gang-crime (on average), but there must be huge rates of minor crimes around August in Edinburgh. Edinburgh uni was always infamous when I was there for a) bike theft for example (generally), b) toff's on coke, c) late night meadows crime.
3. Hibs vs. Hearts is obviously problematic but I would have thought (?) that Ranger vs. Celtic is the King of match day crime.
General observation having lived in both for about 5 years each: Glasgow is more intertwined in terms of nice/deprived/nice/deprived, whereas Edinburgh has done a good job (/s) elbowing deprivation outside the centre. I lived in Gorgie for a year which even being pretty central, was visibly starting to get a bit towards the deprived side. |
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