Aberdeen Antics

[sense4all]

You know how it goes - whenever you have some major movement in your life - a documentary ( or four ) airs on your screen that is riddled with negative input about the forth coming event. Child has decided to go to Aberdeen for four years.First of all cop programme showing disgruntled Aberdonian residents pulling puking students from their privet hedging, then some link programme shows building of largest nightclub ever .... guess where! To top it all a couple of nights later different law based programme declares it as the party capital of Scotland.Area on show full of ageing business men trying to recapture their youth, yeuchh! I come from a ex-pat Scottish family and actively encouraged this move to get in touch with family roots. Please throw me a mental lifeline that Aberdeen is not modern day soddem and gemorragh.

From experience can anyone provide a balanced insight on life in modern day Aberdeen ?

[jen1302]

think the above is the same as any city no?

for all the bad areas, and bad press it gets there just as much good in the city...from my experinece i wouldnt say modern day aberdeen is reflected in any the points you have raised....but maybe i live a sheltered life and am oblivious to it all...

Only bad thing about aberdeen is theer shocking football team :-))

[NORMANTHEDOG]

They seem to pick on a different city every month,it seems all they want to do, is point out is the bad bits of any place without telling you that there are nice bits as well.Every city has its problems,i wouldent worry too much,next week it will be somewhere else.

[dotjhawkes]

The young lad killed in Iraq yesterday was from Aberdeen, so they produce heros too, his family came across as honest hard working caring people, Aberdeen is the same as anywhere else I guess.

[nickmo]

The furryboots toon is no worse than a lot of other places. Bear in mind how dull a programme would be if it was an hour of real life. Independent makers have to make such rubbish to get noticed and the more dramatic it is the more hype there is about a place.

Like any other town that has students Aberdeen will have good and bad sides to it, and if you want to out on a Friday night and get plastered, into trouble and be arrested, you will wherever you live.

If having someone at a large town is a worry, have them enrol in the UHI (University of the Highlands and Islands) and send them off to the Isle of Lewis faciity at Stornoway - doesn't guarantee they won't get drunk, see fights and arrests though!

Aberdeen is a nice place.

[kick3m0n]

agree with teh above, I'll bet the exact same documentaries could have been made in any major city in teh UK, adn some would probably be ALOT worse than the ones you watched. I'm a Scot, and know quite a few folk that went to Aberdeen to study. Some liked it so much that they settled there, havign got decent jobs in the oil industry. Lovely place, friendly folk, and certainly no worse than any other city I've been to. I saw much more violence, drunkness etc on nights out when I visited friends at Glasgow Uni.

[Gef]

My daughter spent five happy years at Aberdeen Uni - no problems. Other daughter and son both at Uni in Glasgow - no problems. These programs are TV's version of the Sun or News of the World.