text: Quite unlike the New Town area, the Royal Mile and it's 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 bunch.\n\nGod knows where they come from, as property and rental prices round here aren't exactly affordable for your average benefit-dependant lush, but they do make their presence felt.