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Anyone got a favourite website to give us a taste of local culture? Heres my favourite site on my home town and life here and is particularly useful as a tourist guide for the outsider. The site is http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk and my favourite bit is useful for how to iteract if approached by a local. http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/toys/g ... lGame.html Im thinking this could also be a good advertisement for a British meetup of Aspies.

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Well ive been to Morecombe a couple of times and my uncle is studying in Preston so il probably visit there at some point. I have also had the chance to go to Blackpool so might possibly visit there. I wouldnt visit just to see a park though, we have those here. Eigh up. Thaart nor avin me on a butty.

I don't like where I live, and revealing it would be risky.

So..... in a previous posting you lead me to believe that Edinburgh is a wasteland populated by Junkie beggars with a big castle, as well as tourists going to see said castle.

After looking at the provided link would I be correct in my previously unspoken suspicion that Glasgow is like a bigger version of Edinburgh minus the Tourists as well as the above mentioned Castle?

Haha, nice try Fogman. Glasgow is fast taking over as the tourist centre for Scotland because there is a lot more to it including some of Scotland's best parks and most vibrant night life. Like all cities it has it's poor ignorant areas with poor ignorant people to match (ok, probably more so than most cities) but there are nice things and places to it as well. If i can get myself a good job for long enough so that i can at least rent in a decent area area but unfortunately il have to stay in an area that while far from the worst in Glasgow, is still populated by far too many Neds.

A lot of tourists are smart enough to avoid the bad areas and the bad times to be there and so the most they have to complain about is how messy and unkept the place is with litter droppings over the place but still think the place is wonderful. This guide is to make sure the more naive tourists dont believe that it is all bonny like the tourist board would have you think. Personally im going off cities altogether so would like a farm on the west coast of Ireland, now to think about how i can go about it. Im sure there is some other good sites taking the mick out of people's hometown/city/hamlet etc, so lets see them!

Right, so it's like Boston or New York then in that respect.



If you plan on moving to the set coast of Ireland, would it advisable to brush up on your Irish then? From what I understand, People are more inclined to speak it there, than anyplace else in Ireland.

Also, One of the things that may be glaringly apparent to you when you move to the countryside is the almost total silence there. I've spent time on the countryside, and I've found the absence of all of the sounds associated with living in a city to be somewhat unnerving at first. Also, I hated the lack of convienience as well. --In short, it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Well i wouldnt quite put this place on a par with New York or Boston, i mean even going to the dodgy places here is far from a guarantee youll die. To go to some areas of those cities is considered an act of suicide.

Everyone in Ireland speaks english these days so theres no need to learn the dialect. I consider it an act of supreme negligence or even arrogance for foreigners to not speak english as it is the only language that really counts and the sooner we forget about languages that sound like clearing your throat the better.

Ireland is a small country compared to the US so theres nowhere a million miles from civilisation even if some places there look like the land that time forgot. Im planning on staying on a piece of ground near a decent sized town so that i can get what i want but not be bothered by city dwellers. I can always go into Dublin a couple of times a year if i want anything.

This of course is a pipe dream at the moment until im finally diagnosed and finding out what employers are going to bend over backwards to suit my Asperger's. I know what you mean about the countryside silence being kinda eery in a way, i definately understand why a lot of farmers have guns when you are out on your own sort of thing but the peace and quiet and country air is definately something i could get used to.