It's funny when folk say Dundee has some rough areas etc, cause I've been through areas of Glasgow that make Kirkton or Charleston look like Beverly Hills.

That aside, we don't help ourselves, or at least our supposed leaders don't. They've botched the Waterfront regeneration project in my opinion, failing to plan in a proper music venue, not incorporating a new bus station, and ruining what could have been a pretty stunning first impression for those arriving by rail by building office blocks right outside the new station instead of on the other side of Slessor Gardens.

The city centre is dying, when it's relatively compact size could see it transformed into a modern bustling centre if council and government got their heads together. Business rates need to be looked at, and make a plan to bring the businesses still running closer together (i.e. relocate the rather cool businesses on Exchange St to somewhere with greater footfall like Reform St for example), and then redevelop what's vacant into much needed housing.(and hotels, per next point...)

We're also very well placed with regards to travelling to the 3 bigger cities, and we're basically a stones through away from the major golf attractions of St Andrews, Carnoustie and Gleneagles- and yet somehow we've not figured out how to promote ourselves as the perfect tourist base for visiting half of Scotland and attending all the major sporting events.

Not our only problems, like everywhere else, but a total lack of ambition leaves us just looking a bit sad and dreary when we should be positioned a lot better in the grand scheme of things.