According to ancient Asian wisdom particular building materials create particular energy fields and therefore change the mood and behaviour of inhabitants. The people of Aberdeen weren't really bothered with Feng-Shui, when the used the extensive ressources of granite nearby to build their town. Granite is certainly not a welcoming and warm substance. It looks hard, it feels hard and it fits perfectly to the grey sky typical for the Scottish seasons. In rare cases of sunshine it glitters prettily, but this only helps to underline the harsh greyness once the sun it gone.
Aberdeen is called the Granite or the Silver City. It sure is granite, almost every building in town is made out of massive grey stone bricks. Somehow its citizens look similar: large, grey and mostly hard faced. People who work in the harbour or on the oil rigs. Aberdeen also has a large community of guest workers from all kinds of places, but the most present one is the Nigerians. What on Earth must bring people from the Tropics all the way to this grey place next to a grey sea far far in the North? Money of course. Aberdeen will have a few more decades with it, but once the oil runs out, and the clock for that is already ticking, this will become a really, really depressing place.
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