{"id":3268,"date":"2009-04-04T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tell-us-what-it-is-like-to-live-in-inverness-scotland\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:40:55","slug":"tell-us-what-it-is-like-to-live-in-inverness-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tell-us-what-it-is-like-to-live-in-inverness-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell us what it is like to live in Inverness, Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen you get to Inverness’ big country, Britain seems to have more in common with Iceland and Lapland than Exeter or LlandudnoWhat’s going for it? There’s a different light up here. Cooler, icier. When you get to Inverness’ big country, Britain seems to have more in common with Iceland and Lapland than Exeter or Llandudno. The northern lights are as common as muck. There’s a landscape of epic magnificence 15 minutes away – the Highlands one way, the Cairngorms the other. Admittedly shifting up (or down) here is one to file under “major life change”, but faint heart, eh? The place has had a booming few years, usually scores high in quality of life surveys and, dammit, there are dolphins in the Moray Firth. I’m off.The case against Remoteness. It’s a few hours’ drive to anywhere else the same size. A fair heft of gloomy weather and dark, dark winters (but light, light summers). Many delivery firms don’t count Inverness as “UK mainland” and slap on extra charges. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Tell us what it is like to live in Inverness, Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you get to Inverness’ big country, Britain seems to have more in common with...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-QI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":112749,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-inverness-inverness-shire-wilderness-on-the-doorstep\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":0},"title":"Let\u2019s move to Inverness, Inverness-shire: wilderness on the doorstep","date":"November 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Everything feels different, as though the light this far north comes from a different sunWhat\u2019s going for it? Every time I step off the sleeper at Inverness, it feels as if I\u2019ve dozed off south of Crewe and woken up in Reykjavik or Trondheim. Everything feels different, as though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134138,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/airports-disabled-assistance-was-so-poor-we-missed-our-flight-to-lapland\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":1},"title":"\u2018Airport\u2019s disabled assistance was so poor we missed our flight to Lapland\u2019","date":"January 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...\u2018Airport\u2019s disabled assistance was so poor we missed our flight to Lapland\u2019","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36476,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/residents-reject-14-5m-repair-plan-for-apartments\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":2},"title":"Residents reject $14.5m repair plan for apartments","date":"November 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Residents of a big leaky North Shore apartment complex last night voted down a plan to spend $14.5 million, hoping to fix their places for much less.David Bentham, a resident of Bay Palms Apartments between Bute Rd and Inverness...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Residents reject .5m repair plan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75623,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-more-than-half-my-mortgage-repayments-guardian-readers-on-train-fare-rises\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":3},"title":"'It's more than half my mortgage repayments': Guardian readers on train fare rises","date":"January 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Rail fare bosses claim increases will help improve services. We hear from people affected by the price increasesRail bosses defend rises amid protestsCommuters are protesting at about 40 train stations as season tickets for many passengers go up by more than \u00a3100, with campaigners warning that many people were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":147144,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pylons-v-property-power-line-in-scotland-caused-divisions-but-did-house-price-fears-materialise\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":4},"title":"Pylons v property: power line in Scotland caused divisions but did house price fears materialise?","date":"September 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Beauly-Denny overhead project may serve as preview to Britain\u2019s energy network plansThe village of Beauly, near Inverness, marks the starting point of what was once Britain\u2019s largest and most controversial power grid project: a 137-mile electricity superhighway from the quiet Highlands village to a large substation in Denny near\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30095,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-not-easy-to-claim-rail-company-payouts-for-delayed-journeys-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":3268,"position":5},"title":"It\u2019s not easy to claim rail company payouts for delayed journeys | Letters","date":"October 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It is not surprising that only one in five rail passengers who are entitled to compensation for delayed services actually claim it (Passengers to get payouts for 15-minute rail delays, 13 October). On a journey I made last year between Darlington and Inverness a delay of 10 minutes at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}