I live in the Outer Hebrides AMA

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We chain up the play park swings on a Sunday

No Waitrose/Asda/Amazon Prime/deliveroo

On a clear day you can see Canada (if you squint...)

A four bedroom house sells for £130k

No one locks their doors

There's definitely no heatwave here

Why do you chain up the swings?

Are drugs rife?

The house price is relative - how do people earn a living?
And can I come and live there too please!

Have you always lived there?

whats the population where you live? do you know everybody? what are the shops like? what are the schools like? What is medical care like? do you have a swimming pool? cinema? sports clubs? have you always lived there? How often do you come to the mainland? Do you have shortages of anything? are inports expensive? is the post reliable?

Do you knit woolly jumpers

I love the outer Hebrides, best beaches in the world. Hoping to visit again next year

Do you feel guilty about the amount of time money and resources that has to be invested in providing emergency health care (think air ambulances etc) to you amd your fellow outer hebredians because of your decision to live there? Im not saying you should

I'm heading in your approximate direction later this week for work ; what's the weather like? Are the midges bad? Anything else important I should know? Ta!

Are you from there or did you move there?

Have you always lived there Op?

Do you chain the swings becuase it’s the sabbath? Is that a joke?

I've often thought that would be a fab place to live.

but would we be viewed as odd, being a mixed race couple?

What do you do to socialise?

What's the deal with the swings?

Yeah, what’s with the swings? Really hope it’s due to wind not religion!

How often is it sunny?

What are the people like?

I'm also interested in schools up there; I wonder what it's really like to be in a school with about three other pupils?! And to teach them?

I have friends living there and apparently the swing thing is due to religion. I thought they were joking!

I too am puzzled with the swings thing?! Intriguing...

I am just here for the swings I am assuming it is a presbyterian thing custom

In case the OP doesn’t come back - the swings used to be like this on a Sunday because it’s the Sabbath. The Hebrides are still very heavily influenced by the church. There was outcry at the thought of a CalMac sailing on a Sunday!

(Waves from the mainland)

I think regardless of religion there is an argument that it’s good for people to have one day off a week, to do nothing but spend time with family.

Swings thing is because of religion. The Protestant church (in all its many forms) is very strong here and people would find it disrespectful to play or work on the Sabbath. We don't hang out washing, the shops and leisure facilities are not open p. It's very quiet here.

Where has OP gone?

Notevilstepmother but surely that's what the swings are for, spending time with your family. Its hardly the same as a bookies or a pub.