Scotland's biggest city Glasgow is called Glaschu in Scots Gaelic. This means 'green hollow' or 'green glen' and is thought to be where the city gets its nickname 'dear green place'.
Famous for it's shipyards, nightlife, incomprehensible accent, hard drinking and fighting, Glasgow is home to the predominantly Roman Catholic Glasgow Celtic and predominantly Protestant Glasgow Rangers football teams.
Considered Europe's most violent city for the majority of the past century, the largest conurbation in Strathclyde has produced numerous cultural leaders, musicians, poets, artists, comedians and of course alcoholics.
Often compared in pejorative terms to it's Eastern neighbour and national capital Edinburgh, 'Glesgae' is known to be less affluent, but more culturally vibrant. Approximately forty miles apart, the division between the two cities has been likened to a greater rift than that witnessed between cats and dogs. The vast majority of the citizenry of each rarely (if ever) frequent their coastal opposites. Glaswegians refer to Edinburgh as the most northern city in England (which is not a compliment) and the Edinbourgeoise refer to inhabitants of Strathclyde as 'soap dodging weegy bastards'.
As with many cities synonymous with violence, the police force(s) have a notorious reputation for intolerance. In defence of this it should be noted that Strathclyde police are charged with controlling a million people who are (for the most part) genetically pre-disposed to telling people to 'fuck off'.
Home to the notorious Razor Gangs of the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's this west coast epicentre of facial scarring has recently been 'cleaned up' by Common Purpose, the W.H.O and Operation Trident.
With several prestigious Universities and numerous rebranded Polytechnics, the city features a substantial influx of students every year. Home to the Charles Rennie MacIntosh Glasgow School of Art, world renowned artists, engineers, journalists, economists and authors have called Glasgow home for the duration of their academic and formative years.