Well my flight to the UK is only a few days away and I don't know whether I'm gonna set up shop in Glasgow or Edinburgh. Finding short-term accommodation has proven difficult. It's easy to find flatshares or spare rooms, but much harder to find private apartments that will rent for 3 months. Most minimum lease lengths are 6 months in both cities.
I found a pretty nicely furnished one bedroom flat near Broughton street halfway between Regent Gardens and New Town in Edinburgh. Modern furnishings, double bed, nice big TV in a living room with ample seating. I also found a company with a few different apartments available to the west of University of Glasgow - about 15 minutes walk from the intersection of Byres Road and Great Western Road - but it has slightly ugly furnishings, it has that kind of old hotel feel, bedspread like you'd see at grandma's house, shitty small boxy TV from 1999. BUT the Glasgow apartments are about 700-900 pounds a month depending on which one I'd take (they all seem pretty comparable), whereas the Edinburgh flat is 1000 pounds a month.
To be honest, the price difference is not the biggest deal in the world to me (though it's obviously extra savings at the end of the year), but I'm more iffy because I'm not sure whether West End Glasgow or just northeast of city-centre Edinburgh has better game opportunities. I'm a bit put off by the shitty furnishings of the Glasgow apartments, but I'm a bit put off by hearing over and over that Edinburgh is a tourist city and by the higher price of the flat there.
Things that make me apprehensive about city-center Edinburgh:
Edinburgh is supposed to be much more touristy and I know from living in touristy cities before that when locals hear you have a foreign accent many just immediately put you in the 'annoying tourist' mental category immediately. And I'm not really interested in gaming other tourists, I'm here for some Scottish speaks-English-fluently redhead pussy not to get blown out by Spanish exchange students in the club (motherfuckers are in every damn city in Europe), and I rely on a slower more classical bang on the third date game anyway 2-3 weeks after first meeting. Lastly, I've also heard many stereotypes that Edinburgh people are a bit more reserved / hard to make friends with than Glaswegians. And when you live in a touristy city, you don't give as much of a shit to make friends with foreigners they become more of a nuisance than anything else. Anyone agree or disagree?
Things that make me apprehensive about West End Glasgow:
Apartment is a bit shitty, it's run by a company that also has a hotel so it might be weirder bringing girls back, not sure yet what the setup is like there. Really ugly furnishings, not gonna impress anyone. Glasgow is supposed to be much more working class than Edinburgh, does this mean a corresponding drop in quality of girls? I'm into middle class girls who do yoga, not chav girls. But my main apprehension is just that the potential apartment I found is seemingly much shittier.
Obviously I can go stay in a hostel or Airbnb for a week, perhaps visit the apartments I'm looking at in both cities (it's only an hour train ride), and hunt for the perfect (possibly non-existent for 3 month lease term) flat, but I make enough money that missing work to run around town hunting for flats would very quickly start costing more more money than just taking a more expensive option and not missing any work.
Any last minute input? West End Glasgow vs Newtown-ish area Edinburgh?
I found a pretty nicely furnished one bedroom flat near Broughton street halfway between Regent Gardens and New Town in Edinburgh. Modern furnishings, double bed, nice big TV in a living room with ample seating. I also found a company with a few different apartments available to the west of University of Glasgow - about 15 minutes walk from the intersection of Byres Road and Great Western Road - but it has slightly ugly furnishings, it has that kind of old hotel feel, bedspread like you'd see at grandma's house, shitty small boxy TV from 1999. BUT the Glasgow apartments are about 700-900 pounds a month depending on which one I'd take (they all seem pretty comparable), whereas the Edinburgh flat is 1000 pounds a month.
To be honest, the price difference is not the biggest deal in the world to me (though it's obviously extra savings at the end of the year), but I'm more iffy because I'm not sure whether West End Glasgow or just northeast of city-centre Edinburgh has better game opportunities. I'm a bit put off by the shitty furnishings of the Glasgow apartments, but I'm a bit put off by hearing over and over that Edinburgh is a tourist city and by the higher price of the flat there.
Things that make me apprehensive about city-center Edinburgh:
Edinburgh is supposed to be much more touristy and I know from living in touristy cities before that when locals hear you have a foreign accent many just immediately put you in the 'annoying tourist' mental category immediately. And I'm not really interested in gaming other tourists, I'm here for some Scottish speaks-English-fluently redhead pussy not to get blown out by Spanish exchange students in the club (motherfuckers are in every damn city in Europe), and I rely on a slower more classical bang on the third date game anyway 2-3 weeks after first meeting. Lastly, I've also heard many stereotypes that Edinburgh people are a bit more reserved / hard to make friends with than Glaswegians. And when you live in a touristy city, you don't give as much of a shit to make friends with foreigners they become more of a nuisance than anything else. Anyone agree or disagree?
Things that make me apprehensive about West End Glasgow:
Apartment is a bit shitty, it's run by a company that also has a hotel so it might be weirder bringing girls back, not sure yet what the setup is like there. Really ugly furnishings, not gonna impress anyone. Glasgow is supposed to be much more working class than Edinburgh, does this mean a corresponding drop in quality of girls? I'm into middle class girls who do yoga, not chav girls. But my main apprehension is just that the potential apartment I found is seemingly much shittier.
Obviously I can go stay in a hostel or Airbnb for a week, perhaps visit the apartments I'm looking at in both cities (it's only an hour train ride), and hunt for the perfect (possibly non-existent for 3 month lease term) flat, but I make enough money that missing work to run around town hunting for flats would very quickly start costing more more money than just taking a more expensive option and not missing any work.
Any last minute input? West End Glasgow vs Newtown-ish area Edinburgh?