I have been pretty open with my family about wanting to leave Scotland behind someday . To really understand why you would have to live here , i have already blogged about the continuous rain so will not go on again but it really gets depressing. We don’t have a summer to look forward to ,we don’t have a snowy winter either. It is just nothing and rain .
The kids cannot spend time outdoors , everywhere is wet and destroyed. I look at the life they will have if we stay here and i hate it. I am aware no country is perfect , everywhere has it’s shares of drink/drugs/teen sex/pregnancy . I think it is now normal here and *that* scares me , when a 16 year old girl reveals she is pregnant people should not be happy and thinking it is great.
I want my kids to be kids , i want them to be able to run around and play outside . I want they to get an education and be happy. I just feel Scotland is not the place for that.
Their is one thing holding me back and that is my family , i feel sick just thinking about taken the kids away from them all. We are so lucky to have our family close by and taken an interest in the children.
Today was a perfect example and it is a weekly tradition now , we go to my mother in laws for Sunday lunch . We are all fed lovely food and cakes , the kids get to play with gran and their is always a fun activity for them to do (this week it was sticker books, week before decorated cookies) . We get home just in time for a quick kids dinner then bed. It is a wonderful and lazy way to spend the Sunday , little cooking or cleaning . The kids think it is a real treat going to Grans and i think Gran feels the same .
Then their is Friday night dinners at my mums , the kids bake and we eat . They get bathed and ready for bed there. We get home just in time to put them straight in their bed .
How many people are lucky to have this amount of help twice a week?
My children are devoted to there grandparents and it kills me even thinking about taken them away from that.
I have not even mentioned my sister or niece because honestly it is a little to sad to even thinking about, Stephanie and Courtney are part of our daily lives. How would my girls cope without Courtney and she without them?
I guess it is a good thing a decision does not have to be made yet , if it does happen it will be a minimum of two years away .More than likely longer (if i did happen to get into University would be nice to finish that first) .
My head is in the clouds tonight 
I’m on the other side of the fence here I suppose – I really wouldn’t want to leave Scotland at all!
Yes it rains a lot, but to be fair, it rains in most places, or if you go to australia you have dust storms and fires etc instead.
I love the cold crisp winter mornings and those few weeks of heatwave in the summer. It makes it so much more fun when it’s not the norm. For me at least!
I also couldn’t leave my family behind. I have been away from them for so long, now I’ve got them closer finally I couldn’t just up and leave again!
Actually… you’ve given me an idea for a post – I’ll link you in it when it’s done.
Funny that you dream of moving away from Scotland and we (sometimes) dream about moving to Scotland. I, too, would miss my family, and the support they provide, but in Scotland we’d be close to Chris’ family, instead, so would still get plenty of support. Good luck with your decision.
Do not be fooled by that line that ‘everywhere has it’s problems’. People say that in South Africa all the time and it just makes me laugh.
We are planning on leaving here (I would site the weather as a plus of living here, but really it’s been totally grotty for the last month and it’s supposed to be summer) just as soon as we can get a transfer through my husbands work.
Yes, other places do have problems, but problems that I can deal with. The crime rate here, is unTHINKable. My husbands family live in the UK and while we could go there tomorrow, thanks to the good old British passport we’ve decided where we really want to go. This will mean that my husbands family are in the UK, my mother is in South Africa, my distant cousins are in Holland, and we will be in Australia (or New Zealand). So totally split up. We’ve just decided that we have to do, what is best for our family unit. I hear what you say about worrying about how everyone else will fare, but honestly, we’re thinking about our kids kids too one day!!
I know a lopt of what you feel! Where i live there is little hope. WE have one of the highest school drop out rates of any us state, we are amoung the highest rate of teen pregnancies in the us. Of those that do graduate only a small few go on to graduate college. I pray that if we stay here this wont be the outcome for my kids. I hope i have raised them better but as you said when it becomes common and people dont see it as a problem then what can you do. How do you teach your kids to rebel against society and what it deems acceptable.