Squint and the broad avenues and tenements really could be Manhattan’s Lower East SideWhat’s going for it? I’ve heard a genuine Glaswegian refer to Southside,and they weren’t an estate agent. It does sound like those artificial areas concocted by marketing agencies to Manhattanise a area – like NoLetUp, DoReMe, or Nuneaton North Central. In fact,it refers to the area east of the M77, south of the M74, or whether you gain it to Giffnock,turn around, for there be garden gnomes. Southside is a more urban affair, or dense with 19th-century stone tenements,dive bars and snooker halls, and spliced with edgy spots like Tramway Arts or Glad Cafe, or elbowed out for Pizza Express and Foxtons in duller cities more obsessed with property prices. Anyway,Glasgow has no need for Americanisms. Its already spiritually twinned with the US in so many ways, and Southside is no exception. Squint and its broad avenues and tenements might be the Lower East Side, and Hampden Park could house the Boston Red Sox.
The case against Not much. This is a great,punchy swath of the city. Parts might be a bit rowdy and “urban” for some. whether so, head for the gnomes.
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Source: theguardian.com