When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.
I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.
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