living in scotland

[clan campbell]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Lime]

(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]

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

[OC Richard]

http://www.trossachs.co.uk/BusinessF...town=Inveraray

Ah I do see a couple of fyne establishments!

BTW the only population figure I could find quickly was 620.

[Tobus]

When you say you want to move to Scotland, do you mean as a temporary thing, or for the purpose of expatriating and become a citizen of the UK?

I've found that it's pretty difficult for Americans to gain UK citizenship compared to other groups which they tend to favour as immigrants. They do have some programs to attract skilled workers, especially to Scotland, but if you don't fall into one of those categories, it may prove difficult to get approval for permanent relocation.

[Jimmy]

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?

Inverary is a small town on the far side of Loch Fyne in Argyllshire, mostly a tourist town with no main industry. Farming and fishing would be the main occupations of people staying in this area. Although quite rural its only about 2 hours drive from Glasgow. There is nothing much to the town, one main street and a small harbour although the castle is just a short walk from the centre of the town, the home of your ancestors.
If you continue through Inverary, you are heading down towards the Mull of Kintyre with the main town being Campelltown.
You can join the Crinan Canal at Adrisaig and follow it to its end at the small village of Crinan, the canal was mainly used for the now defunct puffers that plied their trade around the islands of the West coast of Scotland, it saved the long journey down and around the Kintyre penisula.
Kilmartin Glen is beside the canal and is one of Britains oldest archeological sites with its abundance of Standing Stones.
So other than wonderful scenery, farming and oyster catching there is not too much employment about Inverary but what a place to retire to