Property News · January 19, 2018

Let’s move to Finnieston, Glasgow: ‘You’ll struggle to find a lampshade in the modish new nitespots’


Move there and open something useful. With no cocktails in jam jarsWhat’s going for it? Bare lightbulbs. Yes, yes, I know they’re very fashionable right now, thank you very much. I have read Living Etc. But, at the risk of sounding like my late granny, what’s wrong with a lampshade? Once upon a time, bare lightbulbs in a window might have indicated poverty or dereliction. Now they mean quite the opposite. You’ll struggle to find a lampshade in the windows of the modish new nitespots on Argyle Street, aka the Strip. Finnieston is yet another tale of gentrification. Where once dockworkers had their fish supper, yuppies/dinkys/hipsters/whatevs now eat octopus with blood orange and drink in gin bars; where there were once actual docks, there are now “luxury” (you might want to speed-dial trading standards with that word) apartments. With wearying inevitability, last year saw Finnieston third in the UK for property price rises, at 14%. So perhaps it’s a case of let’s not move to. Or, if you do, maybe open something useful. With lampshades. And no cocktails in jam jars.The case against The much-documented problems of gentrification. The Clydeside half by the Expressway can feel bleak, unpopulated and Anywheresville. Few affordable options if you have a family. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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