Betty doing a fine job for the Aberdeen tourist board there
Betty doing a fine job for the Aberdeen tourist board thereShe needs to get a grip and stop romanticising Aberdeen. The place is a dump. It’s fucking cold, grey, depressing, wet, expensive (even though it’s a shit hole) - it’s not even a real city, it’s like a glorified large town. It’s not somewhere to dream of moving to at all. And what is it she’s so desperate to move back for? In a few years? She won’t have a job in Aberdeen so she will be starting from scratch work wise, as will Rob, she won’t be living in her parents house so it’s not going to be like going “home” for a week of her mum looking after the kids and Sarah drinking wine sitting on her arse watching. Plus by then she’s going to have 2 kids who will be teenagers or just abouts, 2 hormonal teens who ARE FROM THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND who she wants to uproot and drag all the way up there for what? I’ve lived in Aberdeen and I now live on the south coast of England and there is a stark contrast between the two places in terms of the weather, the physical attributes of the places, the people - why she wants to drag her family up to Aberdeen is honestly beyond me.
You know what I’m getting at though. She has no genuine ties to Aberdeen really - her parents live there but so what? SHE doesn’t have a life there; Rob has NEVER lived there and her CHILDREN are born & bred south coast English kids who go toBetty doing a fine job for the Aberdeen tourist board there. I live in Abz and pretty much agree with this (but could list a couple of positives to balance it up a bit!)
Factor in that her parents are getting older and could develop health issues and need help themselves. Just imagine Sarah as a carerShe needs to get a grip and stop romanticising Aberdeen. The place is a dump. It’s fucking cold, grey, depressing, wet, expensive (even though it’s a shit hole) - it’s not even a real city, it’s like a glorified large town. It’s not somewhere to dream of moving to at all. And what is it she’s so desperate to move back for? In a few years? She won’t have a job in Aberdeen so she will be starting from scratch work wise, as will Rob, she won’t be living in her parents house so it’s not going to be like going “home” for a week of her mum looking after the kids and Sarah drinking wine sitting on her arse watching. Plus by then she’s going to have 2 kids who will be teenagers or just abouts, 2 hormonal teens who ARE FROM THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND who she wants to uproot and drag all the way up there for what? I’ve lived in Aberdeen and I now live on the south coast of England and there is a stark contrast between the two places in terms of the weather, the physical attributes of the places, the people - why she wants to drag her family up to Aberdeen is honestly beyond me.
I thought exactly the same thing…..!I dont understand why you would order a carvery drive to collect it and bring it home then put it on your plates and then do the dishes??? Is it just me that thinks that's bonkers!
Why not each at the carvery????
Because it was a paid ad?I dont understand why you would order a carvery drive to collect it and bring it home then put it on your plates and then do the dishes??? Is it just me that thinks that's bonkers!
Why not each at the carvery????
But just concept itself makes no sense to me...regardless of the lack of common sense Sarah has!Because it was a paid ad?
Yeah I’m with you, there are definitely good things about Aberdeen but you’re not wrong Betty. Aberdeen is not the place it was and that’s being put firmly at the door of the decline in oil. It’ll never be like it was when she lived here before. It is expensive because even though we have areas of true poverty, someone decided that we all work in the oil and we all have pots of disposable cash. Our flat has been up for sale for ages, the market has been saturated with “buy to let” properties that folk are selling at a snip. Pre-pandemic I used to worry about going out and about in the city centre in case some unsuspecting tourist asked what I thought they should do in Aberdeen and my answer would be “leave”Betty doing a fine job for the Aberdeen tourist board there. I live in Abz and pretty much agree with this (but could list a couple of positives to balance it up a bit!)
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