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Yoker isn't the absolute hell hole that people make it out to be and I imagine the nay-sayers in this thread havn't spent much time there except passing through Dumbarton Rd on a bus. Much like everywhere in the city, it has it's good streets and it's not so good streets.

The rougher bits are those that edge onto Scotstounhill and Whitecrook, plus a few off-shoot streets from Kelso (as someone else said). On the other hand, there's amazing houses (mansions by most Glasgow standards really) on Hawick Street plus Ellerslie Rd/Cr is a wee bit hoity-toity.

I need to be careful with revealing anything too personal, but I have had customers that live in Yoker that include a doctor, a train driver and someone who works at one of the major football clubs.

"The Bulldales" are actually not that bad. Pretty good flats, mostly owned and private rented, right on the waterfront with quite a nice walkway quay. One of the benefits to the streets around Bulldale is that it's a 'dead-end estate', as in it doesn't lead anywhere. 100% cal-de-sacs built right against the Clyde with only one main road in. It's not a rat-run and you can't cut through it to get to anywhere else; that is, the only people going about those streets are people with business being in those streets (in a good way).

nb: Once the new bridge is built over the Clyde between Yoker and Renfrew I'd expect the value of these flats to rocket.