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Currently living in central Glasgow, but have a chance to move further out as I'll be WFH for ever more now. What's it like out in Lanarkshire these days once you get past the old hell holes of Motherwell, Wishaw and so on?
I know there will be bams, but does the riding and affordability make-up for it?
Are there any STWers out that way? Can I ride off-road from my door?
once you get past the old hell holes of Motherwell, Wishaw and so on?
You were doing so well up until then.
It's shite here. Don't come.
Yours sincerely
A Bam.
Ha ha - I worked in Motherwell and Wishaw 30 years ago as Ravenscraig was being wound down and closed. I saw the poverty and the deprivation and the hardship firsthand. I was hoping to have my knowledge updated and my prejudices challenged. Are they lovely places now? How have they changed?
And I drove through Law at the weekend with all the Union Jack flags and I'm fairly sure a Red Hand flag - that qualifies as bam for me 🤷♂️
I saw the poverty and the deprivation and the hardship firsthand
No you didn't. Second hand maybe.
I was hoping to have my knowledge updated and my prejudices challenged.
Didn't sound like it. Sounded like you just wanted a cheap house but with no bams.
And I drove through Law at the weekend with all the Union Jack flags and I’m fairly sure a Red Hand flag – that qualifies as bam for me
On the weekend of an Old Firm game? You should have gone into the Auld Store and told the bams there just what you thought.
Sounded like you just wanted a cheap house but with no bams.
Sure - and what's wrong with that? Obv's not local enough for the local people.
Imagine getting upset because someone slagged off Wishaw 😳
Bams have feelings too.
Are they lovely places now? How have they changed?
Living there now is like living in Florence at the height of the Renaissance.
Mainly in the sense that there's no running water, religious strife and a pandemic but none the less it will give you an insight into the life of Da Vinci and Galileo.
Perchy far Wishy? Well, this changes everything...
I had a colleague who used to BOAST of coming from "Pishy Wishy".
I'm in Strathaven, which is obviously posh Lanarkshire 🙂
Law etc isn't a bad place to live, but yes it has its fair share of shall we say '55ers' who, emboldened by some sort of nebulous achievement by some millionaires, have 'risen up' to remind us that yes, they are the people. Its generally not too bad but this time around there's more aggression, I think as a result of the threat of IndyRef2. It will probs settle down again. Nowhere in Lanarkshire has escaped this, even the leafy eliteness of Strathaven has had them roaming the streets, setting off fireworkds in the day, etc. Its the price to be paid just now.
Oddly enough, further up Law into Lawhill it gets pretty nice. My bestie (I'm too old to have a bestie really) lives there and you're a short hop from some excellent riding at the Mauldslie. Then you can drop down, head across to Strathy Park semi-directly.
Carluke is the bright lights nearby and I've always quite liked it somehow. You're an hours drive or less to GT from there if thats attractive.
I’m in Strathaven, which is obviously posh Lanarkshire
My younger brother lives in Strathaven.
He's a bam too.
Bams have feelings too.
Posting on STW makes you instantly one of the most middle class people in the country, soz.
My younger brother lives in Strathaven.
I know, he's always saying he's the successful one of the family etc 🙂
Happy to be a bam.
(well I have moved from the well now, but I still take offence at folk shitting on my hometown)
This is going well 😂
This is going well 😂
It is quite instructive...
but I still take offence at folk shitting on my hometown
Fair enough.
My point of view differs... born in Bellshill, grew up in East Kilbride, trained/studied in Glasgow, worked in Wishaw before spending many years outside Scotland and stints abroad.
My experience of Lanarkshire as a place to grow up was grim, and I wouldn't bother to defend it.
Sounds like it must have changed immeasurably for the better. Yay.
For those who haven't yet realised, I am Perchy's younger brother....
...and a BAM
You say you grew up in East Kilbride and it was grim. I’d say it has changed a fair bit; we’ve been here for just under 20 years having moved up from the south side when we were starting a family.
For kids, ours are teenagers, it’s great, lots of amenities, lots of mates (probs all bams) and easily accessed from town and public transport etc. A huge amount of middle class housing in the past few decades which may have watered down the original feeling of the place.
If I was doing it all again, I would go to EK, as Iain says. Ticks a very large number of boxes.
Wishaw and so on
I like to look down on Wishaw (mostly because I live uphill from there) but it isnt THAT bad 😀
Uphill? Like Shotts?