Anyone live or have lived on the Outer Hebrides?

[CageyH]

You would also be an outsider, to what I expect is a pretty close knit community.

[Lawrence001]

Is one of those lighthouse keeper jobs up for grabs then? The ones where they dump you on an island and pick you up in a year at the end of your contract. If you're still alive.

[Pigmy Pony]

Is one of those lighthouse keeper jobs up for grabs then? The ones where they dump you on an island and pick you up in a year at the end of your contract. If you're still alive.

They already have one, good luck replacing him

[Pigmy Pony]

You would also be an outsider, to what I expect is a pretty close knit community.

A couple I know used to holiday round Ullapool a lot, always found the locals to be friendly enough. Then they decided to up sticks and move up there. That's when they discovered that they had gone from being tourists helping the local economy to being competition for scarce jobs. Nobody had any time for them, and he got into one or two scrapes on nights out. Two years later they'd given up and moved back to Preston a good deal poorer.

[struth]

A couple I know used to holiday round Ullapool a lot, always found the locals to be friendly enough. Then they decided to up sticks and move up there. That's when they discovered that they had gone from being tourists helping the local economy to being competition for scarce jobs. Nobody had any time for them, and he got into one or two scrapes on nights out. Two years later they'd given up and moved back to Preston a good deal poorer.

indeed, alas thats often the way it goes. great for a holiday etc but...

[Pigmy Pony]

I bet Sandy's starting to feel like this guy:

[kirstysdad]

I bet Sandy's starting to feel like this guy:

Aye, might be...

[kirstysdad]

A couple I know used to holiday round Ullapool a lot, always found the locals to be friendly enough. Then they decided to up sticks and move up there. That's when they discovered that they had gone from being tourists helping the local economy to being competition for scarce jobs. Nobody had any time for them, and he got into one or two scrapes on nights out. Two years later they'd given up and moved back to Preston a good deal poorer.

Same here on the Welsh border- although it depends on what you are bringing with you and how you carry it.
Me and my first wife lived in Scotland for several years, I am a native, she from the English south coast. She was never the target of any anti-English hostility, yet a pal who had been raised in London to Scottish parents did. He could be a bit of an awkward sod and would often get abused as an English prick or whatever, not because he was English though. If I behaved like him I guess I would be abused as a fat/baldy/beardy prick etc...

Always very sorry to hear of folk who aren't made welcome. Ullapool is lovely, the folk are lovely. Maybe some folk might take offence at me being from Glasgow?

[rmcin626]

Same here on the Welsh border- although it depends on what you are bringing with you and how you carry it.
Me and my first wife lived in Scotland for several years, I am a native, she from the English south coast. She was never the target of any anti-English hostility, yet a pal who had been raised in London to Scottish parents did. He could be a bit of an awkward sod and would often get abused as an English prick or whatever, not because he was English though. If I behaved like him I guess I would be abused as a fat/baldy/beardy prick etc...

Always very sorry to hear of folk who aren't made welcome. Ullapool is lovely, the folk are lovely. Maybe some folk might take offence at me being from Glasgow?

Ullapool is a nece small town, with a couple of decent places to eat and of course the gateway to the Isle of Lewis.