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Worth moving to Inverness?

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  • stashmycash
    stashmycash Posts: 606 Forumite
    Merlot wrote: »
    Inverness has an airport! Easy Jet fly from Inverness to Gatwick. Its only another hour on the journey.

    I go to Inverness tomorrow, you can't beat the scenary and the shopping is great too.

    Yes but don't you have to check in 2 hours before and then your flight has to tie in with the one from Gatwick, which you could miss etc. From where the OP is now he can get to Gatwick fairly quickly.
  • stashmycash
    stashmycash Posts: 606 Forumite
    Merlot wrote: »
    Inverness has an airport! Easy Jet fly from Inverness to Gatwick. Its only another hour on the journey.

    I go to Inverness tomorrow, you can't beat the scenary and the shopping is great too.

    Just checked and the flight time is approx. 2 hours from Inverness to Gatwick.
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
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    Definitely try the place out before making a decision. I wish I'd taken that same advice given to me some years when I upped sticks from Leeds and moved to Glasgow to be closer to my g/f at the time. Although the place was fine for a weekend stay it was a totally different feeling once I'd moved there. In fact suffice to say I absolutely hated the place and moved back to Leeds 2 months later. People that moan about London should try living in Glasgow for a while - you'll soon realise how nice London actually is.. :eek:

    If you've got any close friends where you are now, you will miss them I can guarantee it. You won't realise just how much until you've actually moved though. Unless you're a very outgoing person and can make friends with just about anyone, you will feel very isolated and lonely being in a place you don't know and with people you don't know. Having said that, if you spend most of your life in Africa then I guess that probably isn't an issue. :confused:

    Rob
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Mackie_The_Staggie wrote: »
    Don't worry bout the dark, we recently discovered electricity and have wonderful things called street-lights, although some of the local kids do get confused and stare at it for hours on end.

    Electricity and street lights are no real substitue for actual daylight, IMHO.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Zara33
    Zara33 Posts: 5,441 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Inverness is one hell of a long way from anywhere, and I imagine it's pretty dark in the winter, being that far north!
    :rotfl: Probably no darker than the rest of the UK :rolleyes:
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  • Bernie
    Bernie Posts: 412 Forumite
    baby_frogmella wrote: »
    Thanks for your reply but my current property is mortgaged and the lender (nationwide) will not allow me to rent this property out...so would have to sell before i can buy. According to http://channel4bestandworst.com/ Inverness does get very good reviews but still a bit hesitant:rolleyes:

    ...when I was in the military we got a short-notice posting to Germany (Ace!). As we had only recently bought the bloody house, I dashed round to our lawyer who read the offending letter from our BS. He said "they don't say you cannot let it out - only that they cannot give their permission for you to do so".

    "Eh!, surely that means I can't?"

    "Who's the lawyer round here?" His argument was that they were effectively washing their hands and leaving all the "responsibility" for the letting to us.

    " You'll just have to let it out without their permission!"

    ...and so we continued with our original plan to let it out and slope off to Germany. We had no problems at all with the tenancy throughout our overseas tour and returned several years later.

    So I suppose the moral is read what they've actually said...
    “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

    But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

    Mark Twain
  • peediedj
    peediedj Posts: 1,267 Forumite
    inverness to gatwick is just over a hr,i have done it a few times,move inverness is wonderful(i stay 30 miles from it in aviemore)very little crime,excellent scenery,and its the fastest growing city in europe supposedly
    so wouldnt take you long to get to london,whats stoppnig you
    Live in my shoes for a week,then tell me your lifes hard!
  • peediedj
    peediedj Posts: 1,267 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Inverness is one hell of a long way from anywhere, and I imagine it's pretty dark in the winter, being that far north!
    its actually lighter the further north you get!!!!!!!!!!!! i once stayed in the orkney islands as a kid,and in the summer,close to mid summers day i was playing football in daylight at midnight:eek:
    Live in my shoes for a week,then tell me your lifes hard!
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    peediedj wrote: »
    its actually lighter the further north you get!!!!!!!!!!!! i once stayed in the orkney islands as a kid,and in the summer,close to mid summers day i was playing football in daylight at midnight:eek:

    Lighter in the summer, darker in the winter.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Zara33 wrote: »
    :rotfl: Probably no darker than the rest of the UK :rolleyes:


    In winter, yes, it will be a lot darker than, say, London, because it is so much further north. And lighter in summer.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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