living in scotland

**clan campbell** · 6th February 12, 07:08 PM

My grandfather was either born in or around Inverary, Scotland. the home of the clan campbell, ive been looking and reading about the history of inverary and i believe that i want to move to Scotland, what type of business is in or around inverary, or in Kintyre?

**Woot22** · 6th February 12, 09:45 PM

No offense intended but have you ever been there? If not you may want to take an extended visit there to see if you really like it. I have been to Scotland many times and lived in Germany for 4 years. And word to the wise, Europe is nothing like living in the US. It comes with some serious culture shock in regards to how things are done and how slow the pace of things are. Businesses are not open 24/7 for our convenience and everything is expensive when compared to the US. Again, you may love it, I certainly did, but I knew many Americans who couldn't wait to get back to the US once they got to Europe. Just a fair warning you may want to do some traveling before spending too much energy looking at a permanent move.

**Lime** · 7th February 12, 02:52 AM

There's um... tourism... a very good sweet shop, a kilt shop which appears to always be closed, oh and a gold mine just up the road.

**Blubbi** · 7th February 12, 03:17 AM

I lived there for a year. It is difficult to find a flat or house for rent when you have not enought money to buy one. But the major problem was to find a job.

Inverary is a good base for holiday but not for abroad workers. Only the lardge cities are the right base to start.

**English Bloke** · 7th February 12, 03:22 AM

There's a rather fyne Whisky Shop as well.
(Did you see what I did there?... did you, did you?)

**Lime** · 7th February 12, 03:37 AM

(Did you see what I did there?... did you, did you?)

Yes the secret to running a good business in Inverary seems to be to prefix the business type with "Fyne": "Fyne Cars", "Fyne Haircuts", "Fyne Funeral Directors" etc! I wonder what the government department responsible for issuing parking tickets call themselves?

**clan campbell** · 7th February 12, 04:24 AM

i have been there a few times just never made it to inverary

**Redshank** · 7th February 12, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Lime

There's um... tourism... a very good sweet shop, a kilt shop which appears to always be closed, oh and a gold mine just up the road.

I wish people would get there fact straight before making stupid comments, the kilt shop is open 7 days a week, only on a Sunday does it open at midday.

**creagdhubh** · 7th February 12, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by Redshank

I wish people would get there fact straight before making stupid comments, the kilt shop is open 7 days a week, only on a Sunday does it open at midday.

Quite!

**Lime** · 7th February 12, 12:20 PM

I wish people would get there fact straight before making stupid comments, the kilt shop is open 7 days a week, only on a Sunday does it open at midday.

A hundred thousand apologies; I really meant no offence whatsoever... I've clearly been extremely dull and I can't think what has happened: perhaps I've only ever been on a Sunday morning which is entirely possible but I should have just checked before making throwaway comments. Sorry.