Edinburgh.

[Abdulmajid]

What are the rough places to avoid living (not staying) in?

[puddicat]

Edinburgh is wonderful a beautiful city "How Very Dare You!!!!

[babybow]

suppose it depends on how much dosh you have but i am sure an estate agent would be able to help you

[Abdulmajid]

Yes puddicat and so is London. But I wouldn't want to live in Croydon or Balham now would I?

[cazzie15]

Personally would avoid - Niddrie, Craigmillar, Pilton, Sighthill - but then that's too much trainspotting for you. Watch film and yoy'll learn places not to live!!! XX

[puddicat]

Its very expensive hope you have a good job to go to, us mear mortals give it up to the foreigners, its the most expensive outwith london!

[Abdulmajid]

I couldn't believe the price of property in Edinburgh. But renting is pretty much the same as Bristol.

Thanks for your recommendations for avoidance cazzzzie15.

[babybow]

Edinburgh Psychiatric Hospital...save your money hun

[Abdulmajid]

Hilarious, Psychiatric Hospital. Absolutely brilliant!!!!! LOL

[cazzie15]

Wouldn't live there, babybow - they're all mad!!

[whiffey]

Croydon at the moment is lovely, the latest fanfare of emergency wailing sirens has died down, I have just planted a couple more shrubs, and the world is looking ok. Balham is probably still sh!te though.

How about New Addington, shall I scout out property prices for you there ?

[Abdulmajid]

New Addington, the end of the tram line??

The Devils Armpit where I believe Patel and Khan are more popular than Smith and Jones is it not?

[whiffey]

New Addington is largely white. If you regard the beauty of the countryside just a few miles away you have to wonder at the stupidity of planners who built a communal sh!thole from nothing in the midst of God's garden. Fortunately few of them hanker after wheatfields and wide green vistas, a local Threshers and a few burned out Corsas are all they seem to desire.

[Abdulmajid]

I am sure the velds of Surrey are appealing to the Croydon folk, but I take question with the ethnicity of New Addington.

I have only had the misfortune of of entering this slum once in my life and recall the parade of shops in the centre (the one where there is a one-way drive through free carpark. I seem to recollect that the yoooff there were more akin to atavists then anything Relic Hunters ever discovered. There was a fair amount of our Asian cousins driving in 1.0l Saxos with sewage pipes as exhausts and further ethnic variations sitting and spitting on the already damaged benches.

I heard Doug MaClure is making a film entitled "New Addington, the Land that Britain Forgot"

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Does it rain a lot in Edinburgh? And is where does one eat a good Haggis?

[cazzie15]

You would have to go to Arthur's Seat (volcanic plug in middle of Edinburgh) to catch the haggis before cooking. They have one leg shorter than the other to enable them to run round hills - hence making them very fast and difficult to catch. XX

[MsBehave]

LOL @ Cazzie ;O)

[Abdulmajid]

Catch them??? Are they an animal??? Goes to show how thick I am, I thought Haggis was the offal of lambs!!!!

[cazzie15]

Small furry creatures, need to be caught by net. Best way to cook is to roast them like a chicken, but you have to skin them first!! Taste braw though!! XX

[Octavius]

I would say that Wester Hailes, Muirhouse, Granton, Pilton, Sighthill, Broomhouse, Gorgie and Dalry are places to avoid.

But it takes allsorts, I'm sure you'd fit in.

[cazzie15]

If you would avoid Gorgie, Octavius does that mean you not a Jambo???