I went on a cruise (first and probably last) to Hamburg couple of years ago. Genuinely shocked looking at Southampton landscape from boat as no definition and looked so scruffy - not just the immediate dock. We should be making more of the quayside and must be plenty of gentrifying opportunities to put in a Nando’s, Prezzos ASK and other character outlets. Although probably overcrowded now with cultural quarter and West Quay city walls.
Give me Highfield over any Newcastle suburb.