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Author	ecca
Comment	I'm living with my partner who's at Uni up here, we moved from Brighton because I have some pals up here and she wanted to study here. Everything you stated is true, Glasgow is great for all of that in my opinion, there's always something to do and you didn't mention it but the food places are great up here, there are so many options and are mostly really nice. We live in a spacious 2 bed for £850~ a month and it's about an 8 minute train from city centre. The trains and busses are great in Glasgow once you get used to them (Moovit app helped the best for us), they're more frequent as you can imagine and it has a subway system. The prices for them are also good so living a bit outside the city isn't bad at all and you're looking at a way lower rent price. I believe it's £1.80 for me to get into town. If you're happy to get a 25 minute train to city centre, my friend lives in a lovely 3 bed for £500, so I'm sure there are more about. There are SO many benefits with health and stuff like that which are exclusive to Scotland, off the top of my head (don't quote me on this), I believe you get free dental care, free eye tests, free prescriptions, free bus travel and lowered train prices all if you're under a certain age. As far as the cost of living it's pretty low here compared to the south, but honestly it's more like it feels like a reasonable price and the south is just ripping you off. We pay a bit extra for our rent than we'd like but we're just happy we're here now. I think I heard that Glasgow is the best city for saving money or something? That definitely makes sense to me. The biggest shock coming up here were the takeaway prices, I got used to paying £12-15 for a small kebab down south, up here I can get one the size of a small coffee table (I'm actually serious) for £6. You haven't mentioned this but I thought you'd like to here it, the people here are 100x better than the people down south, at least in my experience. You get some moody old bastards that are mostly old men but they're few are far between and everyone's keen on stopping for a chat or helping you out if needed. Not only that, if you're wanting to go hiking, running, or anything involving nature in general than Glasgow is probably the best place you wanna be. There are so many beautiful spots nearby just a train/bus ride away, views that you genuinely can't see in England, it's honestly blown me away seeing some of the views. One more thing, there are some weird drinking laws up here, you can't drink alcohol in public so most people just pour it into a different bottle, and you can't buy alcohol past 10pm! Hope this helped, sorry it's a bit everywhere.
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Created	Sat 17th Jun 2023 10:37am
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I'm living with my partner who's at Uni up here, we moved from Brighton because I have some pals up here and she wanted to study here. Everything you stated is true, Glasgow is great for all of that in my opinion, there's always something to do and you didn't mention it but the food places are great up here, there are so many options and are mostly really nice.

We live in a spacious 2 bed for £850~ a month and it's about an 8 minute train from city centre. The trains and busses are great in Glasgow once you get used to them (Moovit app helped the best for us), they're more frequent as you can imagine and it has a subway system. The prices for them are also good so living a bit outside the city isn't bad at all and you're looking at a way lower rent price. I believe it's £1.80 for me to get into town. If you're happy to get a 25 minute train to city centre, my friend lives in a lovely 3 bed for £500, so I'm sure there are more about.

There are SO many benefits with health and stuff like that which are exclusive to Scotland, off the top of my head (don't quote me on this), I believe you get free dental care, free eye tests, free prescriptions, free bus travel and lowered train prices all if you're under a certain age.

As far as the cost of living it's pretty low here compared to the south, but honestly it's more like it feels like a reasonable price and the south is just ripping you off. We pay a bit extra for our rent than we'd like but we're just happy we're here now. I think I heard that Glasgow is the best city for saving money or something? That definitely makes sense to me. The biggest shock coming up here were the takeaway prices, I got used to paying £12-15 for a small kebab down south, up here I can get one the size of a small coffee table (I'm actually serious) for £6.

You haven't mentioned this but I thought you'd like to here it, the people here are 100x better than the people down south, at least in my experience. You get some moody old bastards that are mostly old men but they're few are far between and everyone's keen on stopping for a chat or helping you out if needed. Not only that, if you're wanting to go hiking, running, or anything involving nature in general than Glasgow is probably the best place you wanna be. There are so many beautiful spots nearby just a train/bus ride away, views that you genuinely can't see in England, it's honestly blown me away seeing some of the views.

One more thing, there are some weird drinking laws up here, you can't drink alcohol in public so most people just pour it into a different bottle, and you can't buy alcohol past 10pm! Hope this helped, sorry it's a bit everywhere.