It’s always difficult to know exactly how much it will cost to live comfortably in a new place and everyone knows that one person’s weekly budget might only last another person a couple of days. So, in this guide we aim to give you a good idea of costs, but much depends on your own personal choices – therefore, allow some margin to cover this as well as having something kept aside for the unexpected things which always catch us out when we least expect it!
Tourism
Glasgow is one of the UK’s most visited cities.
The city that hosted the highly popular Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988, was European City of Culture in 1990, and was designated the UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999, welcomes over 3 million tourists from all over the world each year who are drawn by its wealth of cultural attractions and activities.
Among the many different facts of Glasgow, you may wish to find out more about:
Cultura
Shopping
Glasgow is the second largest shopping centre in the UK. You can shop at many major UK high street stores, smaller boutiques, department stores and a wide variety of specialty shops, including craft and antique shops to suit every taste and interest.
The city centre has three pedestrianised main thoroughfares: Sauchiehall Street, and Argyle Street , running parallel to each other and joined by Buchanan Street which runs rom north to south.
Along these main streets are shopping malls such as the Sauchiehall Street Centre, the Buchanan Galleries, the stylish and hip Princes Square, the St Enoch Centre, and the bright and sunny atriums of the Argyle Arcade. There is also the weekend Barras market, located in the city's east end and a stone's throw south from St. Mungo's Cathedral. Away from the city centre you have the convenience of the Parkhead Forge mall, Glasgow Fort shopping park at Junction 10 of the M8 and the Silverburn mall at Junction 2 of the M77.
Heading towards the city’s West End, you will also find smaller boutiques and specialised shops, including an interesting array of antique and craft shops, designer homeware boutiques, clothing shops and vintage record stores.
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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands. A person from Glasgow is known as a Glaswegian.
Glasgow grew from the medieval Bishopric of Glasgow and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, which subsequently became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Britain's main hubs of trade with British North America and the British West Indies. With the Industrial Revolution, the city and surrounding region shifted to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of Heavy Engineering, most notably in the Shipbuilding and Marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was known as the "Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period. Today it is one of Europe's top ten financial centres and is home to many of Scotland's leading businesses. Glasgow is also ranked as the 57th most liveable city in the world.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Glasgow grew to a population of over one million, and was the fourth-largest city in Europe, after London, Paris and Berlin. In the 1960s, comprehensive urban renewal projects resulting in large-scale relocation of people to new towns and peripheral suburbs, followed by successive boundary changes, have reduced the current population of the City of Glasgow council area to 592, 000, with 1, 199, 629 people living in the Greater Glasgow urban area. The entire region surrounding the conurbation covers approximately 2. 3 million people, 41% of Scotland's population.
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