| Comment | Not all of West Princes street is messed up, but especially the side closest to the city center is run particularly rundown: there's a lot of problems with the flats (serious damp, internal structural issues, noise, drug selling). I'd generally avoid that end, unless you're going to art school after parties etc which tend to happen there randomly.
I can only recommend areas I have stayed myself, but I moved to Malta and then on to Edinburgh, so have been out of the city for 5 years, so rents prices have probably gone up. I recommend: Thornwood, Partick Hill, Dowanhill, Broomhill. I grew up near in Hyndland, so know areas well. Also, a lot of people I know in the south side now as rental prices aren't as bad. Also, in the next month or two is a good time to look as a lot of students start leaving the city for summer and give up flats / rooms / bedsits, so you ought to find a bargain.
Fucking avoid Queen Margaret Drive at all costs: at night time a lot of drunk students walk up that street back to Murano Street Student Village, dressed as unicorns or pokemons, pished, shouting or crying. |
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