What kind of property should I buy in or near edinburgh?

mubeye

googler wrote: »

This.

Are you seriously thinking about this without involving your 'partner'?

We currently live together in her flat, but the flat is a bit small for us both. The idea is to share both places in the short term and see how it goes. We did a dummy run during rush hour to her work at peak traffic, and it was 40 mins on the nail. At very quiet times, more like 25 mins. So it's a peculiar kind of isolated. It just happens to be near enough to a fast road to make it quick.

lynz68

For me it would be a no but then I'm a city girl always have been always will be. Are you looking at this because you're getting a bigger property for your money or because you really want to live in such a remote area? Have you lived in such an area before?

Working form home can be quite isolating no matter where you live so it's important to have contact with the outside world. How would you cope if you were cut off during the winter for example or if you were ill for a prolonged period of time how would you cope.

Just a few thoughts unless you're used to living in that environment I wouldn't do it.

melanzana

Am a city slicker too. I live 4 miles from the city in a nice area full of parks and streams and woodland, great transport links, shops, pubs, nearby too. Everything at my doorstep. I think I would be a bit scared of the isolation of moving into the deep country with nothing around me and what if the car broke down, or I got sick in the night.

OK, I am just putting my own view forward. Have you lived in the city all your life, (or within say 5miles on good links), or have you experience of living in the sticks?

I know it is just me, but if I were in your situation, and the relationship takes off, I would rent something bigger in the city/surrounds, let out the OH flat, and if all goes well and you are loved up forever, well then buy something nice in the city/surrounds and go to the country for the weekend!

It is a HUGE decision based on your current living arrangements/location. But follow your dream if that's what you want.

I would much prefer a small house in the city than a mansion in the country anyday.

Best of luck though, hope it all works out.

zagubov

As the other posters are saying, buying a large place out in the sticks is an expensive way to find you loathe the isolation. You can get the same effect in a suburb by taking the battery out of the doorbell.

I wouldn't recommend such isolation unless you're certain you're a country person at heart. Most people I can think of have a default setting of being a townie.

Towns just work better for most people; that's why they're full of people and the countryside's empty.