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Not very much detail on Edinburgh, just mentions Brainnwave (sic) and not Skyscanner. It's a very cultural but also fairly expensive city. Perhaps people will start moving into startup space round about the gentrification of Leith or the space vacated by RBS.

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Expensive yes but a survey the other year had it as the best city in the UK for disposable incomes, an average of £800 per month. Probably in part due to the sizeable financial and legal sectors here. Given the fairly stiff competition for developers in the central belt of Scotland my (biased!) opinion is it is one of the best places to live in the UK, especially if you have, or are planning, a family.

Oh, I'm very fond of it myself, especially since I moved from Cambridge which was far more expensive! I'm still trying to get a good feel for market depth. Everyone wants frontend web devs it seems.

Skyscanner has a decently large office in Glasgow, too.

Completely unrelated, but do you know what happened to the old GU irc channel? I have no idea where to find it nowadays (or if it still exists).

freenode, ##gucs; there's still a bunch of us hanging around.

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