The BBC News Magazine has published a piece about "the other G20", the area of Glasgow known as Maryhill (and where I live, and have lived for nearly 9 years).

It is worth a read, and an interesting viewpoint of the area. It comes across as a bit depressing I think, which doesn't really tally with my view of the area. On the whole, people usually seem pretty happy with life here. Maybe I'm one of the "middle-class gentrifiers" that the story speaks of, though.

It reports that 29% of the population here is classed as "income deprived" by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), without explaining what this actually means (I tried to find out what it entails, but the reporting functions the Scottish Government use require some decades old Adobe program that doesn't work). The SIMD apparently measures a lot more than simply "income", but the BBC report makes no mention of any of the other measures.

Comments have been added to the story by some readers, all making interesting points, in particular the comments by Rod Fleming, Lynn McCulloch and Jonathan Kennedy.