Want to move in Scotland

Blackwoodpiper wrote:I have a nice house for sale 60 miles south of Edinburgh - only £99950. It would suit you fine.

where?

Any advertisements published?

View the property by going to the estate agents wesite and clicking on page No. 8.
The property is in a small village called Auldgirth 8 miles north of Dumfries.
www.rightmove.co.uk/estate-agents/agent/YOUR-MOVE/Dumfries-8474.html - 16k

Ron, that wid do us fer long weekend sessions m8........

REDNECK wrote:Ron, that wid do us fer long weekend sessions m8........

Just a short sail across to Cairnryan boys and your almost there.
There's a nice local pub in the village if your that way inclined
and the locals love the sound of the bagpipes.

When my kids are a bit older (they are almost 4 and 2, respectively, and my wife is pregnant with our third), my wife and I hope to bring our family to Scotland for maybe a year or so to work (perhaps as part of a teacher exchange) and have the kids go to school there, maybe when they are ages 12, 10, and 8 or so. We're not city people, though, and would look to move to a Highland area with a climate similar to our home here in Alaska.

Crackedpiper, isn't Beaulieu a beautiful place (pun intended)? I went through in 1992 and again in 2004, and found it a welcoming village both times. What draws you to the city, rather than the countryside? I wouldn't mind living outside of a city, say Inverness, which might have more opportunities, so long as we could retreat a few miles away when it's time to head home for the evening/weekend. I believe Inverness has been one of the fastest-growing cities in Scotland over the past 10 years or so; not sure how it's doing in this economic situation, but there sure was a lot of growth in between the twelve years between my visits.

Bill Urquhart wrote:We're not city people, though, and would look to move to a Highland area with a climate similar to our home here in Alaska.

I'm so done with big cities and gangs, Portree would be a nice change!

I hear ya, John. I lived in the middle of couple of high-crime cities (New Orleans and Washington DC) when I was a single young buck, and it was fine for me at the time, but I'm glad to be back in the country now. Now that I'm a married young buck with small kids at home, no thanks, no city for me.