Highlands?

[JumboBeef]

I'm thinking of moving to The Highlands ~ does anyone here live there?  I'm thinking of the area around Pitlochry.

How bad (or should I say good) does the snow get in winter?  Do you often/ever get snowed in?

Cheers.

[zebidee]

Pitlochry's hardly the highlands ;^)

It's just up the road from me actually - I'm in Dunblane about 30 miles south of Perth. Pitlochry's about 20 miles after that.

Nice part of the world Pitlochry - only problems with it is the main road is the A9 - single lane major road to Inverness. Lots of tourists in the summer causing congestion, regular accidents etc. etc.

Snow's not too bad usually (that'll probably be the cue for a bad winter this year) - no snow poles on the A9 that far south - further up (Dalwhinnie & beyond) the snow gates sometimes get shut (very rarely though).

Great area for hillwalking, mountain biking, horse riding, stalking & shooting, fishing, etc. etc. Blair Horse trials (CCI *** event) are every August if you're into that kind of thing (SWMBO is).

IIRC Pitlochry even has a rail service to Glasgow & Edinburgh. Perth's big enough for most things (B&Q, Halfords, ASDA/Tesco) - you won't find a Sainsbury's or Waitrose north of Stirling AFAIK so it's a trip down south for anything particularly fancy.

Great off-road centre just south of Perth actually at Strathmiglo - http://www.scotoffroad.co.uk/ - £150/year gets you unlimited use of the Glentarkie trails.

HTH,

Z~

[zebidee]

Forgot to say - the wife did get snowed in last year - but that was cause she'd been out on the razz with a mate & was in the car (rear wheel drive automatic).

Had to go collect her in the Trooper - no problems whatsoever with 6-8" of snow.

Cheers,

Z~

[V8MoneyPit]

We had been looking at that area. Well, north of Stirling and around Perth anyway. We would be looking at a smallholding as rural as possible. Not just yet, but maybe in a few years time. It's a nice part of the world.

[JumboBeef]

Thanks for the replies.

We are also considering around Perth ~ we'll see what happens.

Thanks again.

[hobbit]

Karlos on here moved up north Scotland, not sure where off below Inverness, but dont seem to be round much anymore

[Discohugh]

I would really love to sell my home and move to the Highlands with kids/wife, the only stumbling block for me is getting a job there. If i could secure some form of work i would go in a shot, it would be better than living where i do rushing around all the time,traffic,crime, no bloomin hills. May be someday ?

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

You want to contact Highlander1. He lives and works up there.

[zebidee]

Funny talking about crime.

Used to live out in Strathyre & I remember the annual police report for the area was bad because 4 bicycles had been stolen that year from the whole 20 mile district. :P  :P  :P

Both me and the wife left the keys in the car door (and the keys in the front door) on several occasions & came home to find them either still there or popped through the letter-box.

Z~

[V8MoneyPit]

The feeling of security and trust in an area is so important. The farmer we buy eggs and veg from locally just leaves the produce on a covered cart outside his gate. You just put your money in a tin and take the goods. When we don't have the change available, he is happy for us to drop it round when we want. The same guy topped our fields last year.... we have only just had a bill out of him!!

If we moved we would be looking for a similar feeling to the area.

[chiboy]

8) Moved up here 5 years ago nice and quiet but not a lot of clubs or pub meets but a nice place to live, still miss the deep south thou LOL 8)

[JumboBeef]

Low crime is very important to me.  I never lock the motors when they are at home, here or in the last place I lived in, in Devon.

[Discohugh]

chiboy, did you have a job organised before you went or after you got there?. How is the employment situation in the highlands Etc

[Keri]

Low crime is very important to me.  I never lock the motors when they are at home, here or in the last place I lived in, in Devon.

LOL you never lock then im fitting cctv cameras to mine so that when its parked up on the drive or where ever its monitoring everything thats happening. Paranoia  :shock: and also have it so that i have a direct link to the cameras so i can see out of them where ever i am.

[Budgie]

Karlos on here moved up north Scotland, not sure where off below Inverness, but dont seem to be round much anymore

Karlos lives at Fort Augustus at the southern end of Loch Ness.  

Just to clarify, if you draw a line from Oban, through Aviemore and north to around Kinloss then everything North & West of that line is (give or take) classed as the Highlands.  :D
East of the line is Grampian, South is Argyll, Central Scotland, Tayside & Fife.

For jobs in the Highlands and Grampian areas have a look at the Press & Journal website and click on the Jobs section.  

[Discohugh]

Thanks Budgie, very interesting site there.

[chiboy]

8) Moved up here on spur of the moment had no job but some were to live .moved here 24 nov by 24 dec had full time job .now on 2nd job had no real probs getting a job pays not to be to fussy to start with 8)             p.s i,m in centrel scotland