| Comment | Govanhill is an odd wee place now. You'll have an organic vegan coffee shop selling you espresso from an ethical farm and charging you £5 for the pleasure, and the next store will "Fone Fun Fixers" (or something) that's clearly a money laundering front, a discount veg store, and then back to some hipster leisure experience.
It still has its issues (people don't quite understand what a bin is) but there is a certain charm to the hodge-podge craziness.
I lived in Govanhill around 1993 for a year and it was as rough as all balls then. Running battles between the young teams were not uncommon.
Later I lived in what is *technically* Strathbungo (West of Vicky road) from 1998 to 2008, moved for work but came back in 2018 and sold/moved again in 2019.
Never felt unsafe (note: I'm a bloke well over 6 ft tall) and I really enjoyed living there. It's always been a place for immigrants (which I guess I am) and if you enjoy that kind of vibe, you should like it too.
The shift now seems to be less immigrants and more artists as students/grads have been priced out of the Westend, Strathbungo (conservation area), Shawlands etc. and with that comes gentrification, slowly but surely.
I would t rent a ground floor flat though. But I would rent a ground floor flat *anywhere*. |
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