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Good question. I'm not worried about education. Sure there might be more choices in the city, and the local education has it's problems, but it's still good en

by lawn 7y ago

Good question. I'm not worried about education. Sure there might be more choices in the city, and the local education has it's problems, but it's still good enough. It might not be the best, but most schools in the city aren't either. Health is the biggest worry (which I even forgot in my comment). Not because we'll get worse care here, but because the distance to the nearest hospital is very large (2 hours by car). Which is especially worrisome as we're expecting another child in about 5 months. A pretty big change as we used to live a 10 min walk away from one of the biggest University hospitals in Sweden. Then again health care in the big cities, like Stockholm, isn't that great either. There's a lot of stories about understaffed hospitals, very long queues and how new mothers are sent home almost immediately after giving birth (otherwise you can stay a couple of days to get settled).

lifeisstillgood 7y ago
2 hours to a hospital. I am not even sure that it is possible on the UK mainland to be that far. Maybe parts of the Highlands. I was surprised by your 1/10th if the cost comment but perhaps less so now. thank you
- lawn 7y ago
  I'll note that there are several smaller hospitals much closer (but they're not allowed to be called hospitals). There is light emergency care, nurses and doctors there but they often need to send us to the hospital 2 hours away. For example for our ultrasound we can go to one 1 hour away and for regular talks and checkups the local one is fine. So maybe it sounds worse than it is in reality.
Accacin 7y ago
> There's a lot of stories about understaffed hospitals, very long queues and how new mothers are sent home almost immediately after giving birth (otherwise you can stay a couple of days to get settled). Same here in the UK interestingly enough. Two hours is a while though, but unsurprising as generally the UK is pretty compact.

by lawn 7y ago

lifeisstillgood 7y ago

2 hours to a hospital. I am not even sure that it is possible on the UK mainland to be that far. Maybe parts of the Highlands. I was surprised by your 1/10th if the cost comment but perhaps less so now. thank you

lawn 7y ago
I'll note that there are several smaller hospitals much closer (but they're not allowed to be called hospitals). There is light emergency care, nurses and doctors there but they often need to send us to the hospital 2 hours away. For example for our ultrasound we can go to one 1 hour away and for regular talks and checkups the local one is fine. So maybe it sounds worse than it is in reality.

Accacin 7y ago

> There's a lot of stories about understaffed hospitals, very long queues and how new mothers are sent home almost immediately after giving birth (otherwise you can stay a couple of days to get settled). Same here in the UK interestingly enough. Two hours is a while though, but unsurprising as generally the UK is pretty compact.