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Hi there:) Im going to be living in Dalkeith. Would it be expensive to say, everyday go on a bus ride to glasgow, edinburgh etc etc to explore scotland, or is it not really? if i want to rent out a one bedroom flat, with my partner, how much would we need to earn to survive with food etc? thanks a lot

i suppose it depends on where you are coming from, as to whether you will find living here expensive to be honest

compared to most places in England say, living here is cheaper
rent etc

here is a link for rentals
http://www.s1rental.com/renting/search/forrent_search_results.cgi?location=592

that gives you a rough idea how much that will cost
travel? you will be better buying some kind of travel pass, both Edinburgh and Glasgow have great transport links and negotiating both cities is easy

eating, like everywhere else can be as cheap, or expensive as you allow it to be

i hope you enjoy Scotland

im moving to glasgow with my partner, to rent a flat. He is in college therefore a student, i am going to look for work and im doing a home learning course. Do i have to pay council tax and how does it work?

Yes you have to pay Council Tax. As your partner is counted as a student, you will be counted as a single occupier and therefore entitled to a 25% discount. Get a form from the college to show that your partner is a student and go to the Council office to get your discount.

im moving to glasgow with my partner, to rent a flat. He is in college therefore a student, i am going to look for work and im doing a home learning course. Do i have to pay council tax and how does it work?

Yes you have to pay Council Tax. As your partner is counted as a student, you will be counted as a single occupier and therefore entitled to a 25% discount. Get a form from the college to show that your partner is a student and go to the Council office to get your discount.

hi all ,
a long story short was born in canada ,and have sort of always had thoughts of going back .Our dilemma have been with my partner 5years (living in glasgow )and due to graduate uni with an Ba (hons)Management with Human Resource Management.My partner is from dublin ,ireland .we are looking for a change in our lives .Originally we were looking to move to dublin from glasgow(scotland) ,however we have now been discussing toronto as a possible option .however unsure wether this is realistic .im 25 (almost a uni graduate) my partner 30 (security guard ,but qualified printer) we own a property in glasgow ,and will be renting this out .wot are the salaries like in canada and realistic cost of rent in the city (do like to live in a nice place ,as have no kids and is a luxury ) also how bad is the recession in canada ,would this cause us problems .as i have a canadian passport ,how does that effect my partner getting a visa ?????? soz a long one and lots of q’s

I love Toronto and I just moved here a yr ago from the US. I have a great job and the city is very nice -modern and sophisticated compare to a lot of American cities. I think you and your husband will love the change.

Recession or no recession, it can be easy or hard to get a job depending on your field and openings. I don’t know anything about HR. But compare to the US, the recession was not as bad. But that’s just my opinion.

hi all ,
a long story short was born in canada ,and have sort of always had thoughts of going back .Our dilemma have been with my partner 5years (living in glasgow )and due to graduate uni with an Ba (hons)Management with Human Resource Management.My partner is from dublin ,ireland .we are looking for a change in our lives .Originally we were looking to move to dublin from glasgow(scotland) ,however we have now been discussing toronto as a possible option .however unsure wether this is realistic .im 25 (almost a uni graduate) my partner 30 (security guard ,but qualified printer) we own a property in glasgow ,and will be renting this out .wot are the salaries like in canada and realistic cost of rent in the city (do like to live in a nice place ,as have no kids and is a luxury ) also how bad is the recession in canada ,would this cause us problems .as i have a canadian passport ,how does that effect my partner getting a visa ?????? soz a long one and lots of q’s

I love Toronto and I just moved here a yr ago from the US. I have a great job and the city is very nice -modern and sophisticated compare to a lot of American cities. I think you and your husband will love the change.

Recession or no recession, it can be easy or hard to get a job depending on your field and openings. I don’t know anything about HR. But compare to the US, the recession was not as bad. But that’s just my opinion.

I’m 17 and getting to the point where I have very, very little pride in Britain anymore. I want to be proud of my nation, yet it’s very difficult to be proud in a country where patriotism is perceived as racism and is actively discouraged. People don’t even fly British flags because of fear of being associated with racism, and there have been cases of local councils even requesting a British person remove a flag or any display of patriotism from their property so they don’t offend another culture or religion.

We have to suck up to other races in our own country! The UK is experiencing a major problem with unskilled immigrants, who have just been allowed to flood into the UK, and take unskilled work at minimum wage beause they can afford to do so. They live about 6-7 to a small house, so their costs are instantly lower and so they can afford to live at minimum wage. Plus, they send the money back to their own countries and don’t even spend most of it in the country. The British youth are really losing out to these immigrants, yet if you say anything in the UK, you’re branded a racist, it truly is a sorry state this country has got into in terms of immigration.

The immigrants are also largely unassimilated too, a lot struggle to speak even the most rudimentary of English, they form their own communities which often become high-crime and virtually no-go areas for white people, they expect the government to give them grants to build religious buildings for them, and if they don’t get it, they pull the race card, and also, we’ve got our own home grown terrorists here. The bombings of the London Underground, and also of Glasgow Airport were both perpetrated by Muslims with British citizenship – this country is in a ridiculous state and things are going to have to start changing, yet if anyone stands up for their nation, they’re accused of being racist, if any politician said anything, they’d be sacked immediately. You can be arrested in the UK for saying anything against immigration as it comes under "anti-discrimination laws".

This country is truly pathetic. I have no pride in it anymore.

Yeah, I know I’ll get the typical left wing brainwashed Brit accusing me of being racist, but I’m not racist at all. I enjoy traveling and experiencing other cultures and I actively do so, however, I wish to be able to return to a country I can be proud of and one that actively regulates and controls it’s borders. I have absolutely no problem with SKILLED immigrants who are able to fill job shortages in the UK which require skilled expertise and lots of job experience.

I also feel that a person should only be given a work visa if there is no British person available to fill that position and the job has been actively advertised to the LOCAL job market. If all that has been done, then I see no issue with giving a job to someone who is truly going to benefit the economy and make a COMMITMENT to assimilate to the culture of this country, and to learn the language. However, this is not the case in Britain, too many British youth are losing out to unskilled immigrants invited in by the Labour party who are lapped up by employers as cheap labour, while our own kids have to compete with foreign unskilled workers. They accuse us of being unwilling to do the jobs, that is complete and utter bullshit, most of the jobs go to immigrants through agencies for minimum wage.

Also, British people struggle to live on minimum wage, their circumstances are very different to most foreigners. Most foreigners are only here for a short period of time and rent one house to between 6-7 of them, their costs are significantly lower, as they split costs. British people can not do this and should not have to do this, as the costs of living in Britian long-term are astronomical, it costs roughly £5 or $10 for a gallon of fuel in this country.

These are my views, and if I’m racist for standing up for my country, then so be it. I am getting to the point where I am seriously considering moving to another country. I want something to be proud of, and at the moment, there is no pride in being British, as pride in Britain equates to racism.

Sorry if this sounds a bit like a rant, I just wanted to know if there’s any one else out there who feels the same way?

Lookie mate, I don’t reckon you’re racist, I just reckon you’ve got the wrong idea.

First off, I’d like to ge the idea of unskilled immigrants out of your head.
You complain about lefties- fair enough really.
But you’ll notice that the Thatcher and Major governments, both right-wingers, appealed to former commonwealth countries to send doctors etc, ‘cos we didn’t have enough brittish ones.
What’s the result? We have loads of south Asian doctors and nurses. Why? Because we really needed them.
So you can’t really say those are unskilled.
I reckon you’ll find a lot of those south Asian immigrants are amazingly qualified.
A fair few around the place I live are the most inteligent people I know. A load, and I mean a load have passed mountains of exams to program our British telephone networks.
I don’t know how to do it, I reckon you don’t either, but they’re fucking brains, I tell you. And they’re all people who call themselves British, and are proud of it.
They’re stellar people, and they don’t at all fit into the scrounger catergory.

Oh, another thing, you dislike left wingers, but you’re opposed to the free market? I get this from the fact that you think only Brits should have British jobs. I don’t mean this as an attack, at all, don’t get me wrong. But "saving" British jobs for British people is a left-wing idea.

I reckon strong national unity is a good thing, but I’m open to accepting other cultures and people into that nation.

You’ve raised good points, mate, and writing this reply was good fun, so hopefully we can get some discussion out of this.

Hope to hear back from you soon.

I am a 32 year old woman from Glasgow, Scotland and earlier in the year I moved to London to study for my masters degree. While looking for a flat share I was put in touch with a single man of 48 also origonally from Glasgow who was looking for a flatmate. He is a performer and is often out of town working. The rent was offered at a reduced amount in return for some light house work and making sure that there would be things like milk and bread in the house for him coming back from working away (he leaves me money for this) as he said he was fed up coming home to an empty house. We get on well and I like him a lot and when he is home we often have dinner together or watch a DVD etc and it’s quite cosy. However I did pick up on some signals from him that made me think he might be interested in me romantically. My suspicions were confirmed by a note he left for me last sunday before he left for the some gigs up north. In it he basically tells me that he has developed strong feelings for me over the past 8 months and hope that we might share more than friendship. I am confused about this, I like him a lot but worry as I am already living with him. I think that he feels women tend to reject him out of hand as he thinks of himself as ugly and that perhaps I have by living with him been able to see beyond that. I have but it just seems risky to start something with my land lord and I would struggle to get another flat I could afford!

What should I do?
I don’t thin it is just about sex his note mentions marriage also, but of course depending on how I feel about it.

and what… prey tell…. does this have to do with MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?????

I am a 32 year old woman from Glasgow, Scotland and earlier in the year I moved to London to study for my masters degree. While looking for a flat share I was put in touch with a single man of 48 also origonally from Glasgow who was looking for a flatmate. He is a performer and is often out of town working. The rent was offered at a reduced amount in return for some light house work and making sure that there would be things like milk and bread in the house for him coming back from working away (he leaves me money for this) as he said he was fed up coming home to an empty house. We get on well and I like him a lot and when he is home we often have dinner together or watch a DVD etc and it’s quite cosy. However I did pick up on some signals from him that made me think he might be interested in me romantically. My suspicions were confirmed by a note he left for me last sunday before he left for the some gigs up north. In it he basically tells me that he has developed strong feelings for me over the past 8 months and hope that we might share more than friendship. I am confused about this, I like him a lot but worry as I am already living with him. I think that he feels women tend to reject him out of hand as he thinks of himself as ugly and that perhaps I have by living with him been able to see beyond that. I have but it just seems risky to start something with my land lord and I would struggle to get another flat I could afford!

What should I do?
I don’t thin it is just about sex his note mentions marriage also, but of course depending on how I feel about it.

and what… prey tell…. does this have to do with MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE?????

i don’t want to be in the city but in the outskirts of glasgow and edinburgh, i had thought of private rental but i don’t think i could afford that. i would like to have some contact with housing associations for renting a property but it would need to be a quiet area that i can bring up my 4 daughters in and close enough to a good primary school and secondary school that i could walk to if necessary

When you find this idyll, please don’t tell anyone or you will find that the house prices will soar and housing associations will be priced out of the market!