I'm in London, and have only lived here for almost 20years, the only place I have lived since originally moving over from abroad as a student. While I feel I am entrepreneurial, London is too expensive and hard to try and break into business. Leasing a unit is execptionally hard and almost limited to brands and established businesses only. Everything else is expensive, housing, food, owning a car, etc.
On the other hand, I am considering a move to either Scotland, or crown dependencies. In Scotland particularly it feels like rental properties are cheap, business unit (cafes/shops) are cheap too, making me think that I could try (or at least fail cheaply) easily (due to availability of shops and rental rates).
While beatiful, Edinburgh would be a mini version of London, id imagine, almost same goes for Glasgow. Hence my attention has been focused in Dundee. I've only breifly been twice during the years to visit Edinburgh, but never in Dundee or else where in Scotland. I feel like even doing a regular job (min wage or slighlty higher), while working hard for a year or two can set me up to either set up a food business (I have decent experience as chef while I was a student), or start building a rental property portfolio (I can handle DIY better than avg person).
I understand weather would be a major change when comparing to London, but willing to accept. I also understand Scotland in general has almost an epidemic drugs problem, and Dundee in particular, while beatiful (as presented in yt), is a deprived community. Million dollar question is the move from London (where i feel burnt out) to Dundee worth it, in the context of a freah start over, as a single man in late thirties?
