| Comment | I've lived in Glasgow for 10 years now. It was already struggling when I got here but I've seen it severely decline since.
Something is very, deeply wrong here. There is a profound malaise underpinning the lives of many people in this city. Not the privileged ones in the West End, but the majority poor.
It feels like the fabric of society is breaking apart. It feels edgier and more dangerous.
There is a sense of a rotting city. Not only physically but socially. The filthy, disgusting streets a symbol for something filthy and disgusting lurking under the consciousness of the inhabitants.
Having lived in many Western European cities, this is by far the most depressing and bleak one. It reminds of decayed and sad ex-Soviet industrial cities of Eastern Europe. The grandeur of better times left to taunt its people as the very structures of buildings and society crumble around them.
After I finish my education here I taking a one way ticket out of here to somewhere better. I don't need the Glasgow Effect knocking 10 years off my life expectancy. |
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