text: Quite unlike the New Town area the Royal Mile and it is surroundings can often have a slightly grubby cheap and seedy feel about it There always seems to be a contingent of tramps and dossers kicking about and while I rarely have a problem with gentlemen of the road the hostile drunks that loiter around inside and outside of the Advocate are a fairly revolting bunchnnGod knows where they come from as property and rental prices round here are not exactly affordable for your average benefitdependant lush but they do make their presence felt