I really want to retire to Scotland , seems to be gorgeous

[UndertheOcean]

[elleng]

1. It is, and rugged, and LOTS of rainbows EVERY DAY!

[stuntcat]

9. rainbows and unicorns are everywhere!

Our tour guides kept pointing out the rainbows, there's a rainbow, see that rainbow, over here's a rainbow, etc etc

[old mark]

2. I retired to Reading, PA...I think Scotland would be preferable...nt

[Angry Dragon]

3. You do know everyone wears a kilt there

and you have to learn to play the bagpipes

[Arugula Latte]

7. ... and eat haggis for every meal.

It's the law there.

[stuntcat]

10. they make yummy vegetarian haggis :D

[wysimdnwyg]

12. Vegi.... haggis...

This is my head:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. And you can't have haggis without scotch whisky

I'm so there.

[Mopar151]

4. How are you with cold and damp?

Might still be better then PA......

[david13]

15. Ditto, oh, sorry, not supposed to say that here. But yeah, that is the

big issue with Scotland. Gloomy, little sun, cold, damp, not much fun.
After 20 years in Los Angeles, and 20 years in south Africa, my friend from Scotland retired to Scotland.
Ugh.
He was a bit gloomy about it.
dc

[Forkboy]

17. Sounds perfect to me!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. 'Tis bonnie, but then the place is full of Scots.

[david13]

18. And unemployed ones at that. When my friend moved back,

he found 50% unemployment. He never did find any work, which he thought he would do right away. He never did til his passing away.
He was not a drinker, and he found the national passtime to be ... drinking. As they mostly had nothing else to do.
dc

[NV Whino]

6. It is gorgeous

And I found the people to be wonderful, but it's effing cold. And it rains a lot... when it's not snowing.

[tigereye]

20. i have a friend from Scotland here, and she said that the

recent crazy blowing, raining, and then snowing? weather here in Western PA was just like being at home.

[stuntcat]

8. I've been to that picture!

Last year we took a 4-day tour of the highlands and the lachs, and we have pictures from that exact place, no kidding, that very spot!! In my pictures there are sheep near the edges of the stone fence that's at the right edge of the picture.

And Hech Yeah, Scotland is where I'll move somday, to Edinburgh.

[kentauros]

13. How about New Zealand?

I'm sure there are similar rocky cliffs somewhere down there, but I didn't visit them

[WilliamPitt]

14. Edinburgh is my favorite city after San Francisco.

The country itself is staggeringly beautiful.

[stuntcat]

19. very good taste in cities

seeing as I agree

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Alas, getting permission to live in the UK is NOT easy

Some friends of mine whose financial situation is quite solid (retirees with good pensions, just sold a huge house) and had no criminal records applied to retire to England and were denied. They can stay only six months out of a year.