Moving out of London

The bus lanes and bike lane colours are the wrong way round.
Although it's the 'posh' city the roads are full of potholes and there are discarded needles and smashed Bucky bottles to be found behind most of the benches.
You cannot get a drink on Sunday mornings.
A "taxi stance" is not the way you must stand to hail a cab, but a taxi rank.
Everybody has an Edinburgh accent. This shouldn't be odd or surprise you, but it is and it will, and then you will be surprised that you are surprised.

Come to Canada, it's fucking great!

Can you live with the rain?

Do you need to be in a city? If you're remote working why not be actually remote.

Daylight in winter. Nearly an hour less at winter solstice.

don't and have never lived in (the bad and hated) edinburgh so will defer to anyone that does if any of this is wrong, but I'd say:

• edinburgh obv a significantly smaller city with therefore less in way of arts, theatre, restos etc but the quality of the arts, theatre etc that remain are very high

• since it's a smaller city (easier and cheaper to traverse) you'll probably have more opportunity to take advantage of those amenities (I know alot of my londoner friends don't actually avail themselves of all the stuff that's going on down there because it's a hassle and usually just stick to their neighbourhoods)

• there are LOTS of tourists in edinburgh, and because it's smaller, if you're in the centre, it's noticeable

• I gather it can get quite unpleasant during festival time, just due to the massive influx of people - not sure how many people do it but there is always the opportunity to decamp and rent out your property for MASSIVE wonga during this period

• in terms of arts, I'd say glasgow has the edge for live music but ed has the edge for art and theatre (excluding the festival period of course.) both cities have film festivals and glasgow is only a 45 min train journey away

• don't know about riding but you're not far from the pentland hills, which look decent for mountain biking

• edinburgh has a reputation for being a bit more polite and 'douce' than glasgow - this might be a bit unwarranted these days. it's definitely noticeable when visiting how many more stiff posh people there are kicking about and there are a stupid amount of private schools in ed

• most importantly probably, even though scotland is part of the united kingdom and westminster reserves powers in relation to many things and there are many things which remain similar/familiar with england... it decidedly feels like a different country, with a different civic life, different income and property taxes, free prescriptions, amazing tap water etc.

• on the flipside, these differences are not always positive. ime scotland is a lot less diverse than london. this is less the case perhaps glasgow but even then that's only in particular areas

Would Scotland automatically incorporate the new anti-protest/anti-Roma bill into Scots law?

• many of the provisions of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill don't apply to scotland (as they pertain to reserved matters.) some of them will come into force automatically in scotland though - those are the provisions relating to (i) road traffic, (ii) extraction of information from electronic devices and (iii) remote hearings for terrorist/sexual offences

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaJFi0kuMqE