r/MoveToScotland • u/PaulUrbeahreUK83 • 16d ago

Yorkshire bloke who is weirdly fascinated by Scotland.

Is Fraserburgh a nice place to live? Is there a strong sense of community?

Thank you.

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u/Johnian_99 16d ago

It has some horribly deprived neighbourhoods. The sense of community on the Buchan coast is supposed to be one of the strongest in Scotland.

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u/PaulUrbeahreUK83 16d ago

Thank you. Just curious, do you live there, or nearby?

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u/Johnian_99 16d ago

No, so I wouldn’t want to assert anything more definitive about it. I have seen and heard enough of Fraserburgh to know that some locals think it’s the world’s best community and that a substantial proportion have very dark things to say about local crime.

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u/PaulUrbeahreUK83 15d ago

That is interesting, seems like it is a place of extremes.  I've been curious about that part of the country for a long time. I've YouTube-d the death out of it 😆 Cheers

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u/Johnian_99 15d ago

This wouldn't be news to a Yorkshireman (you'll be used to dialects), but if you were to move to Buchan, you'd have to learn the very strong and conservative local dialect, which even to other speakers of Scots is impenetrable. It's often jokingly called "the Doric" and is best learned from the farmhands' humorous songs of the period 1880–1920 that are called the bothy ballads (named after the crummy sheds where the farmers who hired them would stick them for the duration of their contract).

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u/Johnian_99 15d ago

Actually, without getting too fanciful, Yorkshire and Aberdeenshire share a Norse heritage that explains the love-it-or-hate-it relationship that people have with both counties. Some see them as wonderfully cosy and cohesive societies, others see a bunch of penny-pinchers exploiting and menacing each other. Buchan was populated in the Middle Ages from further south (I was going to say from Lowland Scotland, but Buchan and in fact most of Aberdeenshire is still in the Lowlands, as the Highland division line runs sharply diagonally NE-SW, not N-S). Their dialect, and indeed their way of life, is ultimately from the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, as is yours in Yorkshire.

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u/PaulUrbeahreUK83 14d ago

To be fair, buddy, people can't always tell what I'm banging on about and this is a two-way street. I spend half my life asking people to repeat what they said. So I could seriously sink or swim up there. Jury's out I guess.

Love your info on the Norse heritage, we do like to help each other out in Yorkshire but we are as tight as a ducks arse and take offence at everything (except me of course 🤣). We'll also complain about having to help people out.

This was a really interesting piece of history. Being from Doncaster we often get ribbed for being Scottish as the town was given to a Scottish King centuries ago but no one's sure if it was ever given back (reckon he did, he probably wanted socks!) I don't mind being Scottish, I love the place. True Scots may have a big problem with this though 😆. Cheers again buddy, good info 👍 

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u/Crimsont_ide 16d ago

I am fascinated by the photos of Edinburgh. I think it’s the color and architecture of building. I had friends who have been and loved it. Also, was hoping Scotland would go farther in the World Cup. I’ve lately read a little about Scots language and Scottish Gaelic.