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> Housing in the UK really is pitiful Eh, I'm trying out London myself these days... and San Francisco makes the flats here look spacious. And Scotland... Dri

• arethuza 10y ago
  The catch in Scotland is finding a house that is both a decent size, has a decent sized garden, is commutable to somewhere that has high tech jobs and actually has a half decent connection to the Internet. I was amazed to see brand new build lovely houses on sale that had no broadband availability - and this was maybe 20 mins from Perth.
  • flukus 10y ago
    > The catch in Scotland is finding a house that is both a decent size, has a decent sized garden, is commutable to somewhere that has high tech jobs and actually has a half decent connection to the Internet. That may be asking for too many mutually exclusive interests. If you want a large house then you're going to increase the commute. If you want a lot of high tech jobs then living spaces nearby are going to be at a premium.
    • arethuza 10y ago
      Och yes - nothing specific to Scotland about those trade-offs. Availability of decent Internet bandwidth is completely unpredictable though - one house in a rural area might be 2Mbps and another house 1km away (and no closer to a town) might, in one extreme case we found, get 450Mbps and nobody could explain to me why this was the case!