Small town attitudes in scotland?

Question

hi,i am from city but lived in small town(pop 6000)for several years,anyone else found small town life to be cloistered and dull??i find people here a re too scared to do anything outwith thier town,go to different places,do different stuff etc,they all seem to want o sit in bars every weekend,bet on horses etc and never do anything out of the ordinary,also its hard to be accepted in small towns,as everyone knows/is related to everyone else,its all "men down pub,women at home"kinda thing here,weekend arguments over football etc,anyone else think that this is the case in small town scotland??ps im planning to move back to city asap,before anyone suggests i do! thanks

Answer 1

most definately. you cant even f**t but it is common knowledge and frowned upon. if you get the chance move outa hillbilly h**l and back to normality. good luck

Answer 2

That can be the case in any small town to be honest - Not just Scotland.

Answer 3

Its comforting to live like that for some people, I have always lived in a small town and I have difficulty mobilising support for weekends away or even a change of bars to drink in on a weekend.

Answer 4

tell me about it !! ... I grew up in a largish village, not even a town, so it was even worse ... everyone knew everyone else's business, if you went out the front door the curtains would twitch as everyone examined you ... as a teenager anything you got up to, your mother heard about it even before you'd got home ... why do you think I live in a city now

the only way to handle it is to let yourself be branded as "crazy but nice" so that you don't have to conform ... they'll think you're mad but, hey, who cares?

oh, and it's nothing to do with Scotland, go to any village/town in the world and you'll find the same

Answer 5

It's not just small Scottish villages, believe, me. I moved from the City, to a tiny village in Cornwall, and I have ACTUALLY met older people who have NEVER travelled over the Tamar bridge, and out of Cornwall.

We were moving out of that particular village, into another one, and someone asked me where I was moving to. I told them the name of the village, which was just 5 miles away, and I was gobsmacked to discover that they had NEVER HEARD of it, yet they had grown up just 5 miles away. UNBELIEVABLE.

It's also very true that everyone is related to someone else, in some way or another. We were treated quite badly when we first moved to Cornwall, and we felt as though the whole world was against us, as we couldn't talk to anyone about it, as they were all related in some way. Now we are also related to most of them, as our kid's all married locals, so at least we fit in these days, with all our distant relatives!!!