Moving to Orkney any advice

[Hilly]

Filling me with so much confidence with all the positive comments

It will be best thing you have ever done , one tip ! When in rome do as the romans do and you will fit in fine .

 

[Bob c]

Filling me with so much confidence with all the positive comments

You did ask

is there a incentive to move there
in Switzerland , there is one village they will pay you to move to because of the ageing population there

 

[jamesy]

Filling me with so much confidence with all the positive comments

It’s a great place to live really.
There are many parts of uk mainland that will have colder/harder winters than here.

 

[jamesy]

You did ask

is there a incentive to move there
in Switzerland , there is one village they will pay you to move to because of the ageing population there

It’s a very tight housing market here & rental properties are very hard to come by.

 

[choochter]

It's a great place, full of lovely folks, great archaeology, birds, great soils, great farming, beautiful landscape.

 

[ratchet spanner]

Calmac don't operate the ferries to Orkney.

oops my mistake

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Good luck with it. Don't forget to give us boring old stick in the muds regular updates of your adventures.

 

[Cowpoke82]

Good luck with it. Don't forget to give us boring old stick in the muds regular updates of your adventures.

Thank you

 

[jamesy]

So we are possibly moving to Orkney , any advice welcome

Where are you thinking to move to? Mainland Orkney or one of the Isles?

 

[jamesy]

The view from outside the sitting room tonight

 

[choochter]

The view from outside the sitting room tonight View attachment 1118025View attachment 1118026

Have you made any silage this year yet?

 

[jamesy]

Not me, but nearby dairy farms were at it a week or 2 ago. I see some new ley mown down nearby too.
Think I’ll need to cut a field that was for grazing as it’ll be too far ahead by the time it gets grazed

 

[Cowpoke82]

The view from outside the sitting room tonight View attachment 1118025View attachment 1118026

Braw

 

[JockCroft]

The view from outside the sitting room tonight View attachment 1118025View attachment 1118026

You jist across fae the Hope?

 

[JockCroft]

So we are possibly moving to Orkney , any advice welcome

Just seen the post. You going to be farming?
Good luck, if its now you are moving getting used to almost continuous light can be a bit disorientating. Despite what many will try to say mid winter is not as proportionality dark as farther south, considering our summer light hours.
Wind can take a little bit of getting used to. Not the gales, but most days always a breeze,

 

[Cowpoke82]

Just seen the post. You going to be farming?
Good luck, if its now you are moving getting used to almost continuous light can be a bit disorientating. Despite what many will try to say mid winter is not as proportionality dark as farther south, considering our summer light hours.
Wind can take a little bit of getting used to. Not the gales, but most days always a breeze,

Yes farming , and thank for the positivity,most people have been negative when we have asked

 

[JockCroft]

Yes farming , and thank for the positivity,most people have been negative when we have asked

Weather is something to get used to. Certainly not as hot in summer as Suffolk, but probably not as much winter frost. I am south side of the firth, been all my life, but through work been pretty much through most of the country north of Midlands.
Lots of people have moved to the north and settled, been a two way move for centauries. When you moving.
Wishing you the very best. Maybe see you sometime.

 

[jamesy]

You jist across fae the Hope?

Yes

 

[Cowpoke82]

Weather is something to get used to. Certainly not as hot in summer as Suffolk, but probably not as much winter frost. I am south side of the firth, been all my life, but through work been pretty much through most of the country north of Midlands.
Lots of people have moved to the north and settled, been a two way move for centauries. When you moving.
Wishing you the very best. Maybe see you sometime.

We have also lived up an down the country having spent time in cumbria, the Scottish Borders an fife , some cooler weather will be welcome I’m not designed for the heat

 

[czechmate]

It’s a great place to live really.
There are many parts of uk mainland that will have colder/harder winters than here.

didi I imagine it?… i thought a few years back you were thinking of moving?