My husband and I are making our long term plan, my requirement is to be able to walk my dogs on the beach everyday. He needs a cycling club. We need access to an international airport for his work, to Standsted to my southern family and Shetland to my northern family. We have narrowed it down to Kirkcaldy, there are good work opportunities for me, we like the train access to Edinburgh and obviously Edinburgh airport is within easy reach. DH will mainly work from home and then travel away to oversee the final two weeks of any project. He will only work on two maybe three projects a year.
Mum was born and grew up in Bathgate and I spent large parts of my childhood there with my Granny. All my adult life I have been trying to move to Scotland. I worked two calving seasons around Turiff and so am aware of the worst of the weather. My husband spent a winter in Iceland and another in Arkhangelsk inside the arctic circle - so is well used to the cold.
A quick check of property websites shows we could afford the type of house we would like.
My biggest worry is finding a community. So DH needs cyclists and my hobbies are mainly crochet, though I love to sing in contemporary choirs. I realise that the onus is on us to make the effort, but is Kirkcaldy somewhere that has a good sense of community that would welcome newcomers?