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by Wanderer » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:14 am
I lived in Scotland for nearly ten years and it's a fine place.
As I'm English I was open for a lot of friendly rivalry and sometimes it could get out of hand. Especially regarding football!!
Central belt is like anywhere else really but glorious countryside is only a few miles away. I lived in the Borders which was lovely but somewhat boring after a while.
Schools are different to Englsih school, they start a year later which is a bit of a bugger if you have a young child, plus the curricula doesn't follow English ones which can lead to issues if you move to England as I did. Nothing insurmountable though. On the whole I felt Scottish schooling was better but that may have been cos I lived in a small town/village.
All the time I was there I never heard one word of Scots Gaelic!
I was considering a job in Linlithgow but decided against it and moved back home to England because the football is sooooo much better.
HTH
Steve
