Jobs and Flats in Glasgow

You should be able to get a one bedroom place on the south side for £400.

Good luck!

I've just moved to the Southside, Shawlands to be precise. It's lovely and pretty handy for town.

those websites, yeah

don't know abt jobs

good luck!

You don't have an english accent or vote tory then?

it's nice, to have it, somedays, though

I love the west end, though. the south side/east end are not even on my internal map of glasgow.

good luck, Ward F!

Er, NO.

when I bumped into you, that time, I thought "hip old t hand, strollin thru the cosmopolitan west end of glasgow, on this fine day" and imagined it was your usual practice

I hardly ever go to the west end. it can be v nice, on sunny days, though!!! but mostly in the botanics/by the kelvin & byres rd is more than a bit of a traffic nightmare

cookie says he loves it but he won't tell me why

OTM!

i wish i knew tracer hand.

The area is poshing up lightning fast. We have an organic bakery, a directional hairdresser, several coffee shops, a brand new deli/cafe and an art gallery these days. The decent chippies are still in situ too.

don't think I'd want to live there though

does franz ferdinand live there?

stet lives there too. 'nuff said.

a colleague currently has a room in a flat in partick, which can just about pass as not really being the awful hillhead/dowanhill west end. she's trying to fill it quite quickly, though. dunno if you'd want to share, mind.

as for subediting jobs ... o christ. newspaper and magazine shifts are down to pretty much 0 at the moment - even for experienced old hands who've been knocking around glasgow for thousands of years. hopefully things will turn around a little, but ... straitened times. staff jobs are at a premium too: our place (the her4ld group) is only appointing internally, and has been doing so for an age now.

i'm not sure about specialist/educational stuff, though. i know fuck all about non-press publishing. if you have any contacts, now's the time to start calling in all the favours imaginable.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/rental
and
http://www.s1rental.com

have most of the letting agents on their site, and could help. If you're looking for even cheaper, I'll send you the shh-shh secret-secret glasgow uni letting lists. But they'll be dives

i might finally be bailing out after 20 years of being a westender.

S1 do a jobs site, too, I suppose, but I have never looked for a job

Grimly has depressed me. Perhaps I will leave Glasgow.

as far as I remember, the west end is full of students, greenery, delicatessens and very pretty girls.

ashton lane is well rubbish though. the west end is much much better in the daytime than at night.

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not for the first time, RJG, i seem to be incurring your opprobrium for reasons i cannot explain. could you possibly elucidate?

the west end is full of students, greenery, delicatessens and very pretty girls

students: yes, because the university's there. sadly, with every passing year, fewer students can afford to live in byres road and its environs, because it's full of thirtysomething arseholes spending money they can't afford to live in an area they're ruining. all the character and joy of the "old" west end is slowly being sucked out as the property prices rise and the 4x4s roll.

greenery: give the 4x4s ten years.

delicatessens: roots and fruits is still there (i think) which is a joy. apart from that: overpriced polenta shops.

pretty girls: students.

i know a lot of older west-enders - people who've lived there 20 or 30 years - and all of them will admit, in their darkest hours, that the place is a shadow of its former self. it's like marchmont in edinburgh: overpaid graduates refusing to let go, and stifling whatever character there used to be.

If anything, there are probably more of them, what with wankers buying flats, cramming them full of students and using their rent payments to buy 4x4s.

my favourite shop in glasgow (?) is on the south side... super asia!!!

they do a fine lime pickle

will reply with southside recommendations later (am at work) ...

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probably won't actually, given I'm lazy

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I agree

Bella Napoli is two minutes round the corner. It looks nice. Brass fittings, glass etc. Kinda like a big Little Italy. Seems to be open reasonably late, which is nice to know.

As I was saying to Ailsa at the B&S gig on Sunday a Glasgow FAP is long overdue.

So city centre, west end, south, east? Whaddya reckon? That new brewhouse place beside the Green sounds interesting, its potential yuppiness counter-balanced by the bratwurst...

When we made our tea-time escape from B&S to go and find eateries, I went raving on about the cheapness and greatness and relative veggie-friendliness and BYOB policy of Koshkemeer. Then we went and it was shut and we ended up eating a bad pub meal in a crappy pub in Nithsdale Road.

Pollokshaws Road & surrounding areas are crap for bank machines that don't charge you £1.50 for withdrawing money.

I will bump the behemoth that is tgm once I have cooked dinner.

(xpost. perhaps this sort of banter is needed to encourage people to come to Glasgow)

When is Glasgow trying Dublin more?

I would like to compare for myself--what it the best time of year for trying Glasgow?

so is this thread the new TGM, then? we've obviously frightened ward off, anyway. (warded him off, even ... oh, please yourselves.)

anyway:

So, where's good to eat and drink around Pollockshaws Rd/Kilmarnock Rd (apart from the legendary Kurdish place - I've been there

bella napoli is okay, but the pizzas are hit-and-miss. good coffee, though. there's a MAGNIFICENT little deli on skirving street, next to beanscene ... can't remember what it's called, but it's got a few tables and does lunches and ... oh, it's joyous. one of my favourite places in the city.

there's the brooklyn cafe on minard road, which is a good place to eat snowballs and drink tea. and eat pizza too, actually. buongiorno (subs pls chk) round the corner is a nifty old-school italian bistro, devoid of pretensions and remarkably well priced.

if you head up towards my 'hood you've got the battlefield rest, which is a scottish/italian restaurant of sheer unadulterated joy. the ivory is a passable pub/restaurant, as is agenda. the granary is okay but a bit soulless; if you can be arsed with the walk, clockwork in mount florida is the bomb. heraghty's (subs pls chk also) is over-rated. i hear syxties is very good, though ;)

mrs fiendish adds: urban grill on kilmarnock road is very fine too, and not too poncily priced. jam, she says, is a bit tacky and thinks it's more stylish than it is.

so Polenta outlets are ok on the south side but not in the west end?

stalks and stems, for fruit and veg

langside cafe, for atmosphere and coffee

the little greek place, only open at night, in battlefield

taverna

baccha (? little italian place at the top of shawlands)

tho it was never my intention to 'usurp' Try Glasgow

Thanks for all the tips folks.

I passed Koshkeemer and although it's boarded up it has a sign saying it's closed for refurbishment. So fingers crossed it'll be back soon.

Pollockshaws Rd may be rubbish for non-rip-off ATMs, but Kilmarnock Rd has loads of banks and free ATMs.

The deli on Skirling St - is that Bags of Style, the bag shop come tea room? What an odd idea for a shop. I like it.

Calamari in Bella Napoli sounds good.

I know the little greek place from when my dad lived in Battlefield. I didn't eat there, but my 13 year old self was most impressed with the photos of famous people who'd eaten there like Richard Wilson!

Clockwork? Home brews? Oh yeah!

And I've always wanted to visit the Brooklyn Cafe.

Yay, go southside!

A further request: I want to do a bit of chazzing, so where's best for records, clothes, bric a brac?

nooo ... it's got a number in its name. that's all i can remember. (and no, it's not that linen place near tusk.)

well i have a sweet deal on a flat in dennistoun from the start of august, and enough cash to play for a few months rent

but i still need to find a job: thanks again to anyone posting useful links, etc

Really, that just about covers everything.

My job situation isn't too great. I was supposed to start at Yell on Friday but the guy who was supposed to be leaving to go travelling hasn't buggered off yet, and we have no idea when he will eventually go. If I'd know that two weeks ago...

I am finally applying for a real job though - media relations assistant at Glasgow Cultural Enterprises. They've got a few marketing and new media positions as well, if that's of any interest.

and thanks the tip, stew - i don't think i can be too choosy abt work, at least to begin w/, so i shall check the GCE out - so far the only poss work i have lined up in Glasgow is being an extra on Taggart (I know the editor)!

Good luck though!

(when I sent for the application form, they put in a wee covering note saying how weird that I was applying, since they had someone with exactly the same name as me working there already! So you can *pretend* I'm working there...)

I live on roslea dr. but am moving soon; it's fine, actually

not the nicest place I've lived in glasgow but

are you staying local (to roslea dr), cozen?

marching = orange parades, one of the worst things about glasgow.

will be at instal, I guess

i think le weekend has been + gone

: )