Dundee

Horrid place, horrid people (I know I’ll get slated but I am entitled to my opinion).

I worked there for a few years and I can easily count people I’d like to see again on one finger. There are beggars everywhere. So much litter I think perhaps they class it as street art. Drugs well if you don’t take drugs you wont fit in. Egging houses is the normal pasttime for the local kids (say age group 5-8) older kids are more into putting cats in wheelie bins and setting them on fire (8-11) and once they hit 11 or 12 sex, booze, ciggies and possibly drugs is the only way to go. All age groups will participate in smashing things up and general vandalism.

Many of the houses there are what are known as tenements with a central staircase and usually two apartments on each floor. Strangely the people who live in them tend to dislike stairs, (I am guessing here because if that is not the reason they are simply filthy, dirty scrots), as rather than take their rubbish down to the bins they just open a window and chuck the rubbish bags out into the communal yard. Take note if for some God forsaken reason you ever have to live in a flat in Dundee do not select a ground floor one – your back windows will overlook a rubbish tip, well for a while anyway until it is piled so high you wont know if it is day or night outside. Sometimes it is not even a bag of rubbish. I have seen a dirty nappy which has obviously just been removed from some poor scrap of humanity hurtled from the third floor to land on top of a bin, excrement flying in all directions. So if you know of any homeless rats tell them about Dundee it would be a Utopian paradise to them.

Often the inside of their homes aren’t much better than the landfills outside. This is a property ‘staged’ for sale 2007…

Crumbs colour co-ordinated with lino...

You will be surprised to hear I didn’t put in an offer…

The only good things I can say about Dundee is that there is a great mix of shops, though some even the ‘big names’ are very shabby, there are good bookshops, a good bus service and just along the coast is Broughty Ferry which is a charming place with pleasant people - you can escape Dundee be there in 15 mins.

Dundee has some beautiful architecture but it is disappearing fast as the council carry out their program of ‘modernising’. The council also have been known to have the pigeons shot which I think is disgusting.

All in all I have been to Dundee and I have crossed it off my list of places to return to – no way will I ever go there again.

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