Where to live
Six regions, explained
Each guide covers what the area is like, where people live, how you get about, what homes cost relative to the rest of Scotland, and how schools work there.
Edinburgh and the Lothians
The capital, its commuter towns and the East Lothian coast.
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Scotland's biggest city, the Clyde coast and fast-growing suburbs.
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Central and well connected, with market towns and hills close by.
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Energy jobs, granite towns and Royal Deeside.
Read the guideDundee, Fife and Angus
A regenerated waterfront city, coastal villages and St Andrews.
Read the guideHighlands and Islands
Inverness, remote work and some of Europe's emptiest landscapes.
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