To move to Scotland?

[MichaelaFinnigan]

We have sold our flat in london, we'll be moving out on Thursday. We've not found a house to move in to yet, but the options are to live in Scotland to live near DH's family or to move to the west country to be near my mum. We'll have to move in with Mum for a while as we'll be homeless.

We were buying a house near Mum but it fell through. Mum was delighted we were going there, and saw her future being near her grand children and with us nearby to help her with the house and garden.

DH has always wanted to go back to Edinburgh. This would be better for work for us probably and there is quite a lot to offer for DS as he grows up. I was always a concerned about moving so far away from my family, and wanted to be nearer Mum as she got older. Mum hates Edinburgh and has an unreasonable hatred of things Scottish due to a bad experience in her youth with an ex boyfriend. She swears she'll never visit.

AIBU to move there even though it would break Mum's heart?

I too am thinking about moving to Edinburgh. I have reservations even though I have previously lived there for 5years and went to uni too. You get so little for your money in edi and if you don't want to live in a flat it is the outskirts and relying on crap buses. parking is difficult too, too many permits not enough spaces. People are not as friendly either compared to the west coast. Glasgow is such a cheap and easy city to get around fab suburban trains and people are fab. Great parks too and so much more for your money. Edinburgh seems a compromise to me at the moment. I expect to be flamed for this though!

Oh, don't spoil it with talk of white pudding. Blerg.

where habs lives is unbelievably nice, i believe. but glasgow also pretty peachy to londoners, judging by the amount of them who live round here.

Glasgow is fab. I'm from London but they tolerate me fine. It's actually very cosmopolitan due to teaching hospitals, universities etc.

Move to Glasgow.

Humph. You need to Come And Visit, Aitch. Ds is crawling, fgs. Your dds would larve him.

I know ds is young but make sure you do your school research. Unless you are doing the public school option, of which there are many in edi, edi state schools are not the best. That is my other reservation as school wise edi lags well behind east renfreshire, east Dumbartonshire. I have a narrow search area in edinburgh based on schools.

I do have lots of weegie friends but am preferring Edinburgh at the mo. I guess I'd prefer to lose DH to golf rather than old firm games. What am I saying... I'll lose him to both in Scotland, Gloucestershire it is.

yes we should. we've been to visit dh's mum a bit lately, should do the double and land on you. i still have his gift btw.

i bet i know all the glaswegian mners already, you know...

The weather is shit though

Mind if you do come to Edinburgh

don't mantion the trams

That is not a joke! The weather is shit in Glasgow and Edinburgh. We have spent the last few months weeping at the weather forecast- how can a few hundred miles make such a difference- believe me it does! It will be a shock coming from down south. I would move to Spain!

You'd be back when they ran out of water. I read once that Fife was one of the driest places in the UK. Not today, obv.

haha the trams aye fok love bumpin gums about that.dont visit ocean terminal shopping centre big dull hulk of a thing

9 months of winter. Pissing rain all summer...

I moved to Edinburgh nearly a decade ago and have never looked back.
In fact, one of my southern friends also moved up after I'd been here a while, because she enjoyed visiting me so much!
We go back and visit my parents in school holidays, if you book in advance you can get pretty good deals on trains or 'planes.

Fife, the driest, not where I live!
Move to Edinburgh it's fab!

I am so so jealous! Edinburgh is gorgeous. I would love to live there. Lots to see and do. Fringe in summer, winter wonderland at xmas, hogmanay. Voted no.1 place to live.

If mum doesn't want to visit it is truly her loss. If my DH could get work there we would go. As it is we are in Germany so I can't talk about selflessly staying near loved ones....

I'm agreeing with you here louii, went to the shop today as DH buggered off in the car and left no milk. Was out for about 5 minutes at the most and looked like a drowned rat!!
OP, Edinburgh really is lovely. I did my hairdressing training there, nosing around at lunch time was fab.

Waaah I want to go to the chippie at Aberlady now - sausage supper for me wi salt n sauce n a pickle! Fond memories of stopping there on the way back from the beach many a time.

Edinburgh is the best city in the world. I absolutely love it. Moved here for uni and have never left, and hopefully never will do.
The ONLY complaint I would make is the house prices - our 4 bedroom victorian semi in a nice part of town was £500k which = massive mortgage.
Having said that - its worth every penny to live in this city.
I wouldn't call the fringe a selling point like some of the posters - personally I can't wait for all of the festival crowds to piss off home and give the residents back their city, but that's just me being grouchy.

fringe is fab,adds a real frisson to edinburgh.down side is royal mile packed with dawdery backpackers

Move to edinburgh, it is fab but the weather is shite. However, the booze more than makes up for it

aye the bars good,and the chippies,and the vista

You can always marvel at the tram works if you are feeling bored.