Worth moving to Inverness?

baby_frogmella

TTMCMschine wrote: »

Wow thank you for satisfying my nosiness. Are you the one herding the camels btw?

Apologies for changing the topic - i know nothing about Inverness. Although Yorkshire is good.

ps How do you cope with looking at so much sand day in day out?

Yep thats me herding the camels:D I have already started applying for Camel Herding jobs in the Aviemore area, preferably herding on the Ski slopes.:D Anyway back to topic please....

peediedj

baby_frogmella wrote: »

as Inverness airport is only 5-10 miles away from Smithton

Probably the main selling point for me is that since i am an outdoors kind of person, the Highlands offers a lot to do in that respect. Having spent 4 weeks in the Sahara sand dunes, it would make a refreshing change coming home and not seeing sand!

smithtons a ok area,so you,ll be fine therebeing a outdoors person your in the right place moving to inverness,a trip to aviemore(30 miles away) you can climb a munro,go skiing ,mountain biking,or spend the day water sporting at loch morlich,or if you want sand,loch morlich has a beach:rotfl:

peediedj

baby_frogmella wrote: »

Yep thats me herding the camels:D I have already started applying for Camel Herding jobs in the Aviemore area, preferably herding on the Ski slopes.:D Anyway back to topic please....

theres always the reindeer herd up the cairngorms:rotfl:

TTMCMschine

baby_frogmella wrote: »

Anyway back to topic please....

Hey - no need to get the HUMP with me!

TTMCMschine

A mother and baby camel are talking one day when the baby camel asks, "Mom, why have I got these huge three toed feet?"

The mother replies, "Well son, when we trek across the desert your toes will help you to stay on top of the soft sand."
"OK," said the son.
A few minutes later the son asks, "Mom, why have I got these great long eyelashes?"
"They are there to keep the sand out of your eyes on the trips through the desert."
"Thanks Mom," replies the son.
After a short while, the son returns and asks, "Mom, why have I got these great big humps on my back?" The mother, now a little impatient with the boy replies, "They are there to help us store water for our long treks across the desert, so we can go without drinking for long periods."
"That`s great Mom, so we have huge feet to stop us sinking, and long eyelashes to keep the sand from our eyes and these humps to store water, but Mom..."
"Yes, son?"

"Why the heck are we in the San Diego zoo?"

Sorry - i'll stop now. Good luck in finding a pad.

Rabiddog_2

Sounds intriguing.. But really.. why restrict yourself to the Uk? maybe something in Spain Italy or Greece or even more daring somwhere in the Maghreb (Brain funk, cant remember country names except Libya and Mali) I wouldn't go anywhere you cant get a pint of Lager tho. I quite fancy Iceland myself dont know why??

arealhighlander

Inverness house prices have gone through the roof in the last several years. I would suggest looking at places just outside of it but still accessible to teh airport.

I work offshore, and I live dowen on Skye. 1.5 hours drive to Inverness. BA and BMI pulling out of Inverness (ridiculous that Inverness now has NO connection to Heathrow now, a large city like that needs one) means you are left with FlyBe and Easyjet to Gatwick (and then getting round to Heathrow) so it is a pain.

Sometimes I just go through to Aberdeen and fly from there as they ahev better connections (2 hours drive INV-ABZ or several trains a day)

To many people Down South it may sound remote being up here but we have the same stuff you have down there - without as much crime/traffic/pollution. House prices continue to rise in Scotland, unlike Down South.

peediedj

arealhighlander wrote: »

BA and BMI pulling out of Inverness (ridiculous that Inverness now has NO connection to Heathrow now

i knew bmi pulled out as i had a flight in july to heathrow booked with them,changed to easyjet,but very suprised ba are pullnig out,but then maybe there fares are to high??

aliasojo

Inverness is a lovely place and has pretty much everything you need......BUT......choice is somewhat limited for shopping probably compared to what you're used to perhaps.

It's easy to online shop but if you want to buy something like a bed for instance (and try it out), then there isn't a great deal of choice of stockists and the items that are stocked tend to be the average. Anything innovative or slightly out the norm is hard to get here.

I recently wanted to buy a particular Zinnser product (paint range) and I couldn't get it for love nor money even although it's a standard type of product everywhere else I'm told. I eventually had to order it online but cancelled when the postage was quoted as £20 simply because we're in the Highlands.

Ironically it is a pretty straight route up the central Scotland main A9 trunk road so Inverness is hardly in the back of beyond. :rolleyes:

I moved up to the Highlands (further North than Inverness) from Edinburgh 20 plus years ago and the shopping thing is my only complaint really. It's gradually getting better with more and more stores etc opening up but I still tend to travel to Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow if I'm buying large or expensive items simply because there's more choice.

The scenery is beautiful and in abundance and the people are friendly (for the most part, lol).

The property market is pretty healthy in Inverness so what's the worst that could happen if you didn't settle? You could easily sell up and move on again. Lol...you should have thought about it a couple of years ago when housing was still really cheap here compared to the rest of the country....:D

LillyJ

MrsE wrote: »

Lighter in the summer, darker in the winter.

Exactly, it works both ways!

Do it, I would love to move in Inverness (although admittedly I have family about an hour away so it would be easier)

Lovely people (although in some of the highlands villages strangers, especially English ones, can be treated as a curiosity!) great scenery, beaches, cheap houses, great transport links by air to London.

I fly regularly from Inverness to Luton, it is so quick, you get up in the air, then have a cuppa, then it seems you start your descent again!

If you don't have to be there for work the South East can be a very expensive place to be! And if you are in Africa half the time, you won't get "cabin fever" from being in a fairly remote place.

Do it!