My experience of living in Scotland for the first 24 years of my life was not great.

I'm sure it's not as bad as it used to be. But even the reason I just upped and moved was cos we were out in leith, Edinburgh one night partying and it was me and these polish guys I was working with and some bunch of thugs came over asked us the time and then set about us. My mate ended up blinded in one eye cos his glasses smashed in his eye and he had to go to microsurgery in Edinburgh Royal infirmary. He went back to Poland as soon as he got out.

I've got mates in Fife who laughed their heads off cos I had a black girlfriend (and she wasn't even that dark and that was only about 8 years ago). These are like uni graduate people, so it's just bizarre.

I've literally been hospitalised and had surgery from assaults from growing up there. Like I've got a permanently disabled arm from having it broken badly in an assault from a random stranger.

It honestly wasn't a very nice place when I was growing up. Full of violence, racism and drugs.

I had a mate from Glasgow who got stabbed, saw my other mate get a bottle smashed over his head etc

And I was not even hanging around those circles much. Just going out drinking in town!!