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?

You can do more than marvel at the works - they now have a parked tram on Princes St that you can actually go inside and whilst pretending you're on the no. 23 route you can marvel at the cost of the whole venture, whilst wondering if it will reeeeeally do anything to reduce congestion.

Edinburgh!? Nah, you want to move to Glasgow - much nicer - I have lived in both :)

We have sunshine today!
Edinburgh has a zoo, a beach- 2 actually, more than one castle, a whacking great hill in the middle, lots of parks, unis and colleges...

Elder son was in Dublin
got text from him
"I went on the tin can, it moves around on rails, I'm scared- the one in Princes street doesn't"
I replied it was leprechaun magic

Ahh, but we've had rain most of the summer, and it's to be peeing down for the rest of the week. Sunshine gives you melanoma anyway, and it's hurts your eyes