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zagubov

If you're in Ayrshire you could have access to both of Glasgow's airports and all of Glasgow's facilities as it's the business/retail/cultural capital so you've access to all the entertainment you need from opera and ballet to big arena concerts.

But as the west has wetter weather, you could maybe do better by looking at the area in the middle of the central belt. 

Stirling's got good motorway access to both Glasgow and Edinburgh and their main airports and trains to both city centres.

The local microclimate's drier than the west and warmer than the east.

You've access to the highlands and unlike Perth and Inverness you've got all the supermarket options from Aldi to Waitrose.

lookstraightahead

The world is a small place and you don't lose your old friends by moving you just make some more new ones.

i see the U.K. as my home so happy to move to anywhere within it. 

I moved 200 miles recently and changed jobs and I don't regret it. I've just met new people.

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Moving away from family is the reality for many. Relocating within the UK is necessary to find suitable work. Trivial compared to some past generations who emigrated. 

So harsh as it may be, if you choose to remain with a radius of your family, and there is a shortage of houses and its an expensive area...your choice.

Murphybear

youth_leader said:

You do have to consider the weather though Scarter. The cold here in the NE was a shock to us when we moved up from London.  Twenty years later I still dislike how much colder it is here and even though I am coastal, we had weeks of heavy snow in 2010 and 2018.  I believe Scotland is worse and looking at the recent Met reports believe snow is due from Norway shortly. Brrr! 

I  had a friend who lived in Exeter and she decided to sell up and buy a bigger property in Aberdeenshire as it was a lot cheaper than Devon.  After she moved she said it was a bit of a culture shock and she was stunned about the additional cost of heating.  Plus the shorter daylight hours and worse weather.

Other than that she loved it 

My brother worked in local government all his working life.  He got the chance of a post in Edinburgh, a long way from Hampshire where they lived. Hampshire is not the cheapest place to live but he hadn’t realised just how dear Edinburgh could be.  They said the areas they wanted to live in they couldn’t afford and the areas they could afford they didn’t want to live it.  He turned it down in the end.  I would have visited him often as I love Edinburgh but most of his family wouldn’t have been able to.  

_Penny_Dreadful

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Friends and family can come and visit - the thing is the further away you move the longer they tend to come to visit for.

Close enough for a day trip but not so far away that it requires an overnight stay

HRH_MUngo

There is a lovely little market town twelve miles away from me that I would love to live  in, but the type of property we want  a) isn't available near the centre or the river  which is where we would want to be and b) we couldn't afford it if it was.  We would be prepared to compromise on the property but not the location.  

One thing to consider when moving to a rural area is how you would manage if you can no longer drive.

mi-key

The trick if you move to a cheap rough area is just to make sure you are rougher than everyone who already lives there

MobileSaver

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The broadband will probably be a joke too.

I'm in rural mid-Wales (nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away, there are only three neighbours in a half mile radius) and get full FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) which is 900 Mbps download speeds in my case...

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It's okay if you don't mind living in a rural area, probably a long way from your friends, and maybe far from people you would like to be friends with.

On the contrary, you learn who your real friends are as they're the ones that genuinely look forward to and make the effort to visit. I see my old friends more often and for longer now than I did when I lived locally to them. Similarly there's a great community spirit here and you make lots of new friends who are happy to come and help and bring their friends when you have a problem.

It's not for everyone but for people not afraid of change it could be the best thing they ever do.

Elliott.T123

As other posters have mentioned it is the family and friends that stop us. 

My wife works for the NHS and with current staff shortages would walk into any hospital in the country and I can work from anywhere as long as I have a phone and internet. We currently live in the home counties, I have done all my life except Uni. Her family are originally from Scotland and she still has a few up there although most are now closer to us. 

We have looked at moving and could swap our postage stamp 4 bed for a 40 acre 5 bed with space for horses and reduce the mortgage in the process. This is our dream but every time it comes to a serious discussion we both decide that we are too set with friends and family in this area and couldn't face building a new life.

Woolsery

Moving to a less convenient rural area will be a good idea for some, but not for others. Anyone with an eye on what our leaders have planned will know the countryside is expected to become mainly the preserve of the better-off, while the majority will be encouraged into urban hubs where they may be better managed. The central idea is most people will be within 15-20minutes of all the services they need, thus obviating the need for the autonomy of personal transport beyond a bike. Once an entirely card-based currency is introduced, there won't be the automatic facility to leave one's home area without good reason or sufficient carbon credits, either. Sounds far-fetched? I think some of Mr Khan's measures are heading that way, and people like him would love to do more to save us from ourselves!

None of the above model fits too well into the countryside, so those lucky enough to live there will necessarily escape some of the more Draconian rules, just as they did in lockdown. Why do you think the rush to the country happened in 20/21?  However, I don't think country living will be a picnic; just better for those who enjoy nature and independent living above all else. They'll have to possess the resilience and skills to manage without the financial advantages of the privileged, but the rewards will be worth it, for them. It's self-selecting. We already have people who move here and are gone again in a year or two, bless them. 

I realise most people will regard the above as fanciful rantings, but before writing it off, consider the fact that the government in the Netherlands is in the process of compulsorily buying and closing down 3000 farms which stand in the way of creating a super city tens of miles across and housing a projected 45 million citizens. They have plans to close more, all at a time when food is in shorter supply. This is in the country which is the second-highest food exporter in the world and one of the most efficient when it comes to farming. It's nuts, but the purpose behind it is idealogical, and the folk with the strange ideas hold the power.

 Luckily, the UK is not topographically like the Netherlands, so it's fairly easy to predict where population growth will be encouraged. We might be out of the EU, but we're led by the same sort of donkeys. I don't think I live in one of the potential growth places, but anyone coming here will have a railway within easy reach, plus decent medical facilities and schools a mile away. Even in the countryside there will be service hubs, and near those is probably best, unless you're planning to go totally off-grid. Good luck with that; it's still just about possible here, but it would be a step too far for me, even if I was younger.

I'm not saying all these published plans of the technocrats and bankers will come to pass; I certainly hope not. However, looking at how they persuaded the majority of the public to follow their now discredited guidance over Covid measures  and wasted spent £billions in the process, there are bound to be some unfortunate changes, especially in more urban areas. I'm so glad I left the city behind. Whoever it was that implied 50 is when you're over the hill for driving etc, we moved when I was 61, and I'm still doddering about in my battered 4x4, but unlike the townies and those on PCP contracts, at least I don't drive in the middle of the road!