AIBU to consider moving to Scotland because I cannot cope with heat?

I think there is nothing wrong with considering, researching and exploring the idea. All big changes are scary, it doesn’t mean they are wrong. I live in Scotland, my daughter is in the south of England and if their lives weren’t so settled there she would move back here to avoid the heat.
Things to consider,
if you go very far north you can be faced with long journeys to get anywhere and with slower or more expensive deliveries.
depending on the age of children you need to time moves carefully to not muck up exam years.
be prepared for higher taxes etc.
if you will need to travel, even if occasionally, for work you might be better in the central belt or south of Scotland.
east of Scotland generally a bit less wet than west.

Why would either of those be preferable to Scotland?

Go for it, we did. Never regretted it. Be prepared for the cold winters (the Borders) are not too bad. The people are really nice for the most part, don’t believe everything you may have heard about the Scots being anti English, that’s so not true. The scenario is beautiful, so much to see and whoever mentioned miserable winters in this post, well there is much to do whatever time of the year.

It’s still been very hot here and once you acclimatise it will annoy you just as much as down south.

Are your midges the same as our midges? Little bitty flying things that cover winows, doors, cars and fly into your hair and everywhere else? They live for a day but seem to never end under their cycle is over?

If so, I thought we were the only ones to get those blasted things! Yuck!

It was an El Nino year this year next year we will probably have entered El Nina and it with just rain!

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/an-unprecedented-el-nio-and-its-implications-for-the-weather-forecast

If we end up going full on southern Med, then we will have to adapt (schools will start at 7.30 and finish at lunch time, summer holidays will start in June until September). I wouldn't move to Scotland just because of I extreme hot summer. I'd get aircon fitted and expect that my daily pattern will have to shift to accomdate it. I lived in NE scotland for 4 years as a student and it gets dark at 3.30 in the winter and doesn't get properly light until 8.30 (although some days it feels dark all day). Never would I move back (although the summer was fun).

The east of Scotland, particularly the south east, is drier than Wales. It is, however, cold in the winter - particularly when the east wind blows. That said, I personally deal far better with dry cold than the wet and love the blue skies and sunshine we enjoy in the winter.

No, it wasn’t.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Edinburgh is 31.6.

Why are you pretending it was one degree short of that for most of a whole month?

The average daytime high for July in Edinburgh was between 18 and 19 degrees.

This is easily confirmed by anyone with access to the internet.

It was, here, in Edinburgh.

No it wasn’t?

I think this all proves that if you want to move to Scotland you really need to do your research, it’s a big country with weather variations from North to South. Sweeping generalisations about snow and midges really don’t apply across the board.

Don’t know your budget or where you would want to live but this popped up on rightmove and is absolutely gorgeous.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/92507289#/?channel=RES_BUY

Can confirm! Tbf not as bad as say Lochaber, but definitely about.

I’m much further north than that. We were hit HARD and with global warming, extreme winters are more likely. We’ve had an influx of “good lifers” snapping up country properties because you can get a decent house and plenty land for a reasonable price. Then they experience winter and sell up. More take their place and it’s a revolving door in some of our local smallholdings. I don’t think those south of the border have a clue what rural Scottish living is like. No deliveroo, no next day delivery on stuff, needing to drive everywhere, poor public transport, crumbling nhs with small local hospitals being shut and the big hospitals swamped. Look at pregnancy and birth in moray and Caithness. Mums in labour having hours of driving on the A96/A9 to get to a hospital to give birth. It’s dangerous. The OP needs to do some proper research not move on a whim

Yes go for it OP follow your heart! I actually love the heat and have decided to move to Spain in the next few years. Why not life is short right. 😊

What What ?

You what??

Presumably you’re further north, here in the central belt we had one measly day of a very light dusting of snow, most disappointing! It’s been a pretty nice summer though , mostly low to mid 20’s occasionally upper 20’s. Today sunshine and clouds , still warm enough to sit outside. I’m thankful not to have the over 30 heat endlessly.

End of the day, as an ex Londoner, now on the same attitude as Edinburgh , Ive only expressed my experiences

I went in to work at 5 am this morning - ruddy cloud cover wrecked the eclipse , but at least last night I saw the most imaginable red sun - that's neither here or there

Being on the same attitude, I cant say it gets very ruddy wet, bit it also gets so dry and hot. Not the hot summer days with not a cloud in the blue skies that are so typical of SW England , bit its sultry, can feel clammy, but this monings's ( 5qm ) drive to work had ne throwing on the AC in the car on full

Scotland ( nor NI ) isnt England

Me and he have a friendship couple, he from NI, she from London, settled in Perth. She has found nothing but friendship and aeptance , he hates it

I , being English thought moving to NI wasnt the best idea in the world, but other then a few comments 15 - 20 years ago, which I could handle, there has never been a problem

Sure I get eaten alive with the clegs each. year and right this minute Ive a stove lit, yet its still a balmy 14 out there and Ill throw the summer duvet off tonight but will wake freezing

Heat is what you acclimatise to. Acceptance is something else.

No midges at all here in this balmy part of Scotland.
Remember not all areas of Scotland are the same. We are a large country geographically and there are significant weather differences between North & South, East and West. This Summer has been lovely in the area of Scotland we live in (22-28c most days) and very little rain. Last year (2025) was really good too.
But moving Country is a challenge (I did it 29 years ago, moving here from SW England). I don't regret it at all-but it is not a decision to be taken lightly.

It’s a disease

”You lot” being people who believe in the material reality of sex?

🤣🤣🤣

Check outside your bubble sometime.

their hate laws mean in theory you can get 7 years’ in prison for the wrong opinion which is biologically accurate

This utterly baseless drivel cooked up in the febrile minds of the hysterical is STILL doing the rounds I see 🙄

FWIW, Scotland's Hate Crime legislation is practically indistinguishable from that elsewhere in the UK, bringing this into being was one of the main reasons for the revision in the first place.

Things which do not constitute criminal offences on their own can not be Hate Crimes, but that didn't stop years of baseless shite and wild, ridiculous claims being made and then repeated endlessly on here and elsewhere.

Yes I hate myself. Last response to you. You lot inject your bigotry into every thread.

You have a whole section to post your hatred of female people.