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Glasgow’s Miles Better (Than Edinburgh)
The quirky side of Scotland’s largest city
Glaswegians are famously warm, witty, and welcoming, known for their fierce sense of humour and strong sense of community. If you’ve ever been to Glasgow, you probably noticed that the people are a wee bit peely-wally and somewhat bizarre.
Glasgow is a city where the young men like to wander about in shorts and T-shirts in the middle of a drizzly winter, and young women exit nightclubs at 3 am shamelessly wearing less than they would on a beach in Magaluf. The vodka and Red Bull coursing through their veins work as an antifreeze, making them impervious to the freezing rain.
Glasgow is also famous for its rich industrial heritage, striking Victorian and modern architecture, world-class museums and galleries, and for being the birthplace of Charles Rennie Macintosh, James McAvoy, and the legendary Billy Connolly.
It’s a proud city, despite a reputation for fisticuffs, tensions linked to Rangers and Celtic football rivalry, and its struggles with poverty during its post-industrial decline.
That all changed in 1983 when the Lord Provost launched “Glasgow’s Miles Better” campaign, a rebranding initiative to improve Glasgow’s image.
