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JumboBeef:
I'm thinking of moving to The Highlands ~ does anyone here live there?  I'm thinking of the area around Pitlochry.

How bad (or should I say good) does the snow get in winter?  Do you often/ever get snowed in?

Cheers.

zebidee:
Pitlochry's hardly the highlands ;^)

It's just up the road from me actually - I'm in Dunblane about 30 miles south of Perth. Pitlochry's about 20 miles after that.

Nice part of the world Pitlochry - only problems with it is the main road is the A9 - single lane major road to Inverness. Lots of tourists in the summer causing congestion, regular accidents etc. etc.

Snow's not too bad usually (that'll probably be the cue for a bad winter this year) - no snow poles on the A9 that far south - further up (Dalwhinnie & beyond) the snow gates sometimes get shut (very rarely though).

Great area for hillwalking, mountain biking, horse riding, stalking & shooting, fishing, etc. etc. Blair Horse trials (CCI *** event) are every August if you're into that kind of thing (SWMBO is).

IIRC Pitlochry even has a rail service to Glasgow & Edinburgh. Perth's big enough for most things (B&Q, Halfords, ASDA/Tesco) - you won't find a Sainsbury's or Waitrose north of Stirling AFAIK so it's a trip down south for anything particularly fancy.

Great off-road centre just south of Perth actually at Strathmiglo - http://www.scotoffroad.co.uk/ - £150/year gets you unlimited use of the Glentarkie trails.

HTH,

Z~

zebidee:
Forgot to say - the wife did get snowed in last year - but that was cause she'd been out on the razz with a mate & was in the car (rear wheel drive automatic).

Had to go collect her in the Trooper - no problems whatsoever with 6-8" of snow.

Cheers,

Z~

V8MoneyPit:
We had been looking at that area. Well, north of Stirling and around Perth anyway. We would be looking at a smallholding as rural as possible. Not just yet, but maybe in a few years time. It's a nice part of the world.

JumboBeef:
Thanks for the replies.

We are also considering around Perth ~ we'll see what happens.

Thanks again.

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