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Very happy to see Edinburgh get more recognition. I spent a year on exchange there while at University and was just blown away by the city. Great tech scene, incredible University (of Edinburgh), so much history and just wonderful people.

If I ever decide to leave Canada, that's probably where I'll go.

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I am based at Codebase [0] in Edinburgh, a tech incubator office complex, with lots of startups based there as well as co-working and hot-desking spaces, where I work at a cloud orchestration company [1] where I am building a new blockchain network infrastructure for another company, [2] also based there. There's a lot of innovation going on here, definitely. Oh, and the Linux Foundation is holding the Open Source Summit 2018 conference [3] here later this year, too!

0. https://www.thisiscodebase.com/

1. https://cloudsoft.io/

2. https://blockchaintp.com/

3. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit...

Of the cities mentioned it's the only one I would actually consider to live. Perhaps Lisbon but I never visited it. Probably working for a local wage makes it a lot less romantic.

You should give Porto a look. Way more romantic than Lisbon and a more thriving tech/startup scene.

Or Edinburgh in the summer, Porto the rest of the year. :)

Edinburgh is fantastic and definitely a great place to live and work!

I work just a little north in Dundee. A great little city with a growing reputation[1]. If you're ever looking for a job in the games industry there are lots of companies based in the city. They tend to be smaller indy places although there are some larger companies too.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-02/where-to-...

Not to mention the Fringe in August (although I imagine if you live or work centrally it can be quite annoying).

How affordable is it? Always wanted to spend some time in Scotland, and love the idea of checking out a tech scene.

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