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Within the Clockwork Orange
Aberdeen is a pleasant city. It's walkable, pretty, bordered by plenty of beach, within an easy drive of the UK's largest National Park, and there are various IT job opportunities. Still, secondary schooling has been an ongoing issue for us. We wish to live fairly centrally and, despite having arrived last year in its catchment zone, the only decent central high school can't guarantee to take our youngest even for the coming academic year.
I was born in Manchester, have lived in the metro area of three US state capitals, and R.'s mostly lived in Metro Manila and Singapore: we're both at home in large cities, and being in the heart of a city maximizes our opportunity to find agreeable activities, as it's easier to find like-minded poeple close at hand. In a few weeks' time, we expect to be moving to the heart of Glasgow, to a modest converted flat in between a subway station and the south bank of the Clyde. The local high school gets good reviews and has hardly any waiting list. The building's ground floor is largely a car park in which we would have a space.
I think it will be a good move. We can get our youngest back into regular education, we'll have the best of Scotland's largest city close at hand, and its capital, my employer's base of Edinburgh, within rather easier reach. I'll also be nearer family in the northwest of England. Coincidentally, my eldest is visiting Glasgow next month anyway, within a mile of to where we're moving.
The Glasgow property market's rather harder to buy into than Aberdeen's, property typically sells quickly and in excess of its valuation. We had to drive over there quite enough times for viewings, difficult around full-time work, so I am glad that the conveyancing is now making good progress through this next phase. Edinburgh's out of our comfortable price range but we could just about make it for Glasgow. I think we'll be happy to stay there for quite some years.
I was born in Manchester, have lived in the metro area of three US state capitals, and R.'s mostly lived in Metro Manila and Singapore: we're both at home in large cities, and being in the heart of a city maximizes our opportunity to find agreeable activities, as it's easier to find like-minded poeple close at hand. In a few weeks' time, we expect to be moving to the heart of Glasgow, to a modest converted flat in between a subway station and the south bank of the Clyde. The local high school gets good reviews and has hardly any waiting list. The building's ground floor is largely a car park in which we would have a space.
I think it will be a good move. We can get our youngest back into regular education, we'll have the best of Scotland's largest city close at hand, and its capital, my employer's base of Edinburgh, within rather easier reach. I'll also be nearer family in the northwest of England. Coincidentally, my eldest is visiting Glasgow next month anyway, within a mile of to where we're moving.
The Glasgow property market's rather harder to buy into than Aberdeen's, property typically sells quickly and in excess of its valuation. We had to drive over there quite enough times for viewings, difficult around full-time work, so I am glad that the conveyancing is now making good progress through this next phase. Edinburgh's out of our comfortable price range but we could just about make it for Glasgow. I think we'll be happy to stay there for quite some years.
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I will definitely let you know if we make plans in that direction!
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