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I appreciate your video. If people don't talk about these issues, others won't know. And really, if you live in the city you are unlikely to know, same as rural people won't know city things. You sound like you need to connect with people there. Get into local events. Connect more if you can. It is okay to have a bit of a 'culture shock' to a place when you first get there. On the bright side, beautiful land, your own place, a car that is rust proofed. Thanks for telling it how it is. I'm moving from Au to NI countryside, and it will be a total opposite of anything I know as I grew up here! Fairly normal emotions I think you are going through. Give yourself time.

Thank you so much! This was very interesting. I'll be waiting for more:) 🥦🫑🍅🥕🥔

Do your research, do your research, do your research.

If you don't like the weather there, don't move to Alaska, especially South East....

If you think things are expensive there, don't move to Alaska....

I live alone, enjoying life through many hobbies and passions, but in a city ; I have been tempted to chase a Walden pond/Therouxian dream I've had, but wonder about how Id go being isolated. In a city, you cant help not having contact through out your day, , but also there's noise, not nature. :( Surely, being rural, connection online through the internet, can help, and as some have suggested, and dear pet. I would probably find a regular commitment to go to once a month, if there's a town that provides such. Thnks for your thoughts.

As a Scot living in the central belt we don’t get much snow normally but we do get bitter cold damp winters with lots of rain that do scunner you but it’s part of living in Scotland hopefully as we’ve not had much of a summer winter will be better but I won’t hold my breath 😉

Not sure that the salt used in Scotland is stronger probably more snowy freezing days in Scotland than England so more gritting of roads

I very much agree with you regarding watching too much online content. It definitely disturbs the sleep pattern. I have reduced my watch time but not enough, I'm watching this at midnight!!

Get a cat for company 😂

Good idea with the plastic bottles, will definitely try this

I watched Mossy Bottom from day one, and now I've found you I'll look forward to watching your journey too. You have a lovely place to live. Good luck with your plans.

Ta! Enjoyed your garden! ❤🎉

I don't have so much of an issue with isolation, because I have my family with me. However, I had the advantage of a rural upbringing and deal with isolation very easily. In fact, I can feel the presence of a family as 'too much' and will go for walks of 4-6 hours endurance just so I can 'gey away from it all.' Presently, you are still feeling the need for people. What you need is a slight mind adjustment to 'what' you see as companionable. I, for example, will see companionship in a bitd singing nearby, a squirrel watching from a tree, even beetles and butterflies sharing my space. Just open up away from that limited 'city mindset' of people being the only creature to commune with, and you will find yourself really enjoying encounters with wild animals. One day, for instance, a Red Deer stag walked casually right in front of me, a fox walked up beside me and sat down when I was taking a lunch break in the woods. A red squirrel sat on a tree stump and watched me for quite some time, after I'd had an argument with my husband. Wild birds can get so used to you, if you let them, they will wait for you to put out some crumbs for their breakfast. I would have 2 pheasants and 3 Siskins learn to knock for breakfast. So, don't forget, they may not talk English, but there are many creatures who would not say no to a treat or two, and let you have a moment to say hello in exchange. It gives you a chance to record species and help wildlife charities by logging your sightings with them. I don't know if you're already doing this, but dedicate a corner of your garden to wildlife - where the mower won't go, you plant berries and seed producing plants/trees, and bring new friends to you. Dealing with household maintenance. We have learned that the best way is to learn to do your own DIY. Plenty of practical books and, of course, TH-cam videos. Keep things simple. People overcomplicate their lives, adding things to their home until they become overly reliant on specialists. Resist doing that as much as possible, and try to become your own expert. Yes, the Highlands and Islands peoples have to pay extra for everything to be delivered. It is unfair, and I think there ought to be an adjustment to wages, benefits and pensions to cover that. But it is what it is, and you have to make the best of it. (I live in Southern Scotland, but in a rural area, so I don't have the postage problem; but yes, I do have to drive a ways to get anywhere to buy things. If we have to endure this pay per mile thing the government wants to enforce, that will be an added cost). One way to get around the handyman problem is to think of skilled people you know in your home city, and offer them a free camping holiday in your garden, plus meals, in exchange for the workmanship to solve a problem you're having. I've taken up the offer of a free holiday in exchange for relandscaping a garden. I didn't find it a cheeky request at all, and I was given ample time to enjoy the holiday at the same time. This gets over the problem of a local handyman slapping on an extra bonus just because you're English, and therefore must be rich (I've had this problem with getting a chimney liner. We were so disgusted with a quote for £1400 from one man, it encouraged us to buy a £200 kit and fit the thing ourselves). Rot and rust. Yep, I'm just deliberating selling my entire antiquarian book collection, because damp has got to some of them. 2 more years of this damp, and some will be beyond hope. Debumidifiers make a world of difference (this is the first time I've seen your channel, so I don't know your electrics situation, if you have solar or what). Cover work tools with a thin layer of mineral oil after use. A little goes a long way. Add a proof paint on the underside of your car to better protect it from winter wet and salt. We do this every time we get a new car after losing the first car to rust (and it was a really good car, was sorry to lose it).

This summer in Finland we had the most days over 25 degrees in recorded history. What a weird summer. And then UK seems its been very cool. What a weird weather in Europe.

Rain. Midgies. Cold.

How do you pay the bills?

I've watched your three videos and first let me say that the location you chose is very beautiful. The property has tremendous potential. You seem like a very pleasant fellow as well. I am curious why, given your predisposition to seasonal depression, that you chose tto move there? One method I use to ward off the winter blues is house plants. I typically go into the cold months with 40 or 50 plants dispersed throughout the house. It helps tremendously.

Have just found your channel as I thought of moving to isolated Scotland. You are helping a lot. I am worried about the lack of rain in East Anglia and all summer the ground is cracking and watering everything to keep it alive. (even mature trees) will watch you more x

Hello, I'm pleased to say that TH-cam has suggested your channel, I've watched your 3 videos and I hope to walk with you further on. Would you tell your name? My best wishes, Dorit (Israel)

Oh dear, how sad.

This is logic, in central Europe we have different chalenges.

Well done for opening up on this! Good to see that you are already on-board with a sensible Vit D regime! 🙂 I'm lucky in that I don't suffer depression or S.A.D. but I do believe in regular bedtime and waking up early works well for me. One trick I use is to have a table lamp on my window-ledge behind the curtains, operated by a timer, which switches it on at 05.00 throughout the winter. This wakes me up in a similar way to being woken by summer sunlight coming in through the curtains. That then gives me enough light to get up and dressed without having to put any other lights on before heading off to the kitchen for harsher lights and caffeine! The light is also on in the evening, switching off at 22.00, effectively giving me a regular seven-hour period of darkness, when I should be asleep.

Just a thought, have you watched the videos of someone else who has just moved to a similar location? You could maybe link up online at least to talk through the various aspects of living the rural lifestyle. Not sure if I can add a link but 'Rewilding Jude' ahould find it.

Interesting! I'm in the Highlands, so I can relate to some of your comments. The dismal weather, for sure - it really is worth getting away to the sun for a spell once a year. And make sure you are taking Vitamin D (google what level makes a difference to mood and health, rather than the NHS guidance which is simply a base level to prevent rickets!) Rust. Yep! Always go to the south of England when you want to replace your car. Don't buy locally. Tradespeople. Good local tradesmen will exist and you need to get recommendations from neighbours. But there is no substitute for self-sufficiency. There is almost nothing that you can't do yourself, with a little reading, practice and a can-do attitude. The only tradesman I've had in the last 25 years was a tree-surgeon to take down four big pines, next to a road. Social isolation? That's more tricky. There will be voluntary organisations in the local village that are needing extra people on board - join one and meet people. And extra fees for delivery. No way to avoid these, I'm afraid, just look on it as something you pay for the privilege of not living in a rat-race community. Having your own trailer might help for some of the things like building materials.

You have been honest about your choice of home and I can relate. I love the isolation where I am in Wales. Not so much the constant wet and the resulting rot and rust. The cold I experienced in Edinburgh years ago made me decide Scotland would not be on my agenda. Also, are the midges bad there? It is very difficult to find competant trades people. Also, I had to pay a taxi £90 to rush my Jack Russel to the vets just 4 miles away, 9 years ago. I will never forgive that. People are unkind everywhere.

Very good points. Thank you for sharing it

Its quite laughable the use of Scotland and England, England has countryside too, it has weather and rust. I think you will find the issue is living outside of a city not living in Scotland. PS try living within a couple of miles of the coast, it has rust too. Scotland isn't another part of the planet to England and Wales....... or even the Island of Ireland.....

The isolation and the cool/cold/wet weather, are 2 brilliant reasons to live rural anywhere in my opinion lol, i must ask, you seem to have a fair bit of land, please consider giving the chickens a bit more freedom, they are feeding you and deserve a bit more space than that cage they are locked in at the moment.

When you moved from the city did you really think about where you were going. Rural Scots know all these things and we accept our circumstances. I think you may have been living in a sort of dream!

Welcome to SW Scotland, a beautiful area. I've lived here for 24 years and there's never been a minute that I've regretted moving up from Derbyshire. Looking forward to hearing and seeing how you settle in.

Welcome to Scotland