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Report on BBC website. Research by Royal bank or bank of Scotland. Claims you can live in Dunblane or North Berwick and save money. Even when you add the rail fares.
Right I am off.
Oh wait, other places you can live - Greenock, Motherwell, Livingston, Kirkcaldy.
Starting to make a bit more sense now
am thinking about Lochwinnoch!
Diarmid, excellent place. Commute to Edinburgh might be circuitous by train? I see a few of the folk from Lochinyeuch are out on their bikes on the Glasgow to ardrossan railway path. Seems to be a very good photographer in the village taking shots of the Barr Castle and the Falls at Tattie Brig that look better than reality. Very crisp compositions. (The Crisp Family lived at the falls for many years hence the bridge being called The Tattie Brig)
Mark Anderson I think. May be an inter lowper
There is now a timetabled Ayr to Edinburgh train that takes a year and a half, will go through Lochside but not sure it stops?
Or you could get a job in Glasgow to fit into the RBS stats.
In the story you have to go one hour out of Edinburgh to save the money but only fifteen minutes out of Glasgow.
Hmmm, this only works if you a) dont value your time or can work while commuting b) ignore the impact on the environment and c) have no caring responsibilities at any point that mean you have to take kids to a local school at 8:30 and then pickup later.
“Hmmm, this only works if you ... “
There’s a long thread (or two) on here about (in essence) commuting time/cost v Edinburgh/elsewhere house prices.
Personal choice and all that, but as with drive v other type discussions in the wider world always involves assumptions (not always backed by ‘facts’) and aspirations and family circumstances etc.
There are people who can’t afford to buy (in Edinburgh) what they want, where they want. So look elsewhere then it’s about weighing up all the pros and cons.
I left Edinburgh last year but don’t do a daily commute.
Once had a job where I went to Glasgow once a week. More than enough commuting for me.
Saves money? See also being dead, which is entirely free.
I would put up with an awful lot to avoid a daily commute.
I've been commuting from Dunbar to Edinburgh daily on the train since 1999. You get used to the time taken and just factor it in.
I've gone from buying a yearly pass to just paying for individual journeys now that I have a senior railcard and only travel 4 days a week. Looking forward to the day I can chuck it in altogether. Getting too for this marlarky.
@IWRATS Hotblack Desiato spent a year dead for tax reasons.
@paulmilne that is LOT of life spent sitting on a train - though at least on a train you can nap / think / read / write.
A friend of a friend has spent the last ten years commuting five hours per day by train. Five days a week. She typically works on the journey. Her employer does not consider these hours part of her working day. I tend to think that donating 4.5+ hours per day to any employer gratis is creating an unhealthy expectation...
(It may not be a secret that I think four day work weeks are the future. Three if possible!)
I know enough people working a three or four day week already. Of course the employer generally expects five days worth of work in that period.
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