Uh oh, America's East Coast elite have taken over sleepy St Andrews
Tucked into the once sleepy East Neuk of Fife, the town has been turned into what some call 'mini-Nantucket', where around every street corner you hear an American accent. This is not your average British university experience.
Over the past two decades St Andrews has been transformed from a quaint, windswept Scottish university into a globally recognised academic institution
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