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Living In The Highlands

The Highlands of Scotland is one of most sought after places to live in the United Kingdom, due to the quality of life enjoyed in an area of outstanding beauty.

The capital of the Highlands is the City of Inverness (approx 20 miles away from the AWS office).

Inverness provides a pleasant and safe environment, a varied cultural life and first rate educational opportunities. Free from congestion - pollution is the lowest of any city in Britain. It is the administrative, business and transport centre for the Highlands and is enjoying tremendous growth.

The year (2007) saw Inverness and the Highlands enjoy their Scottish Year of Highland Culture.

As well as being a wonderful holiday destination the Highlands are home to a quarter of a million people living in communities spread throughout the area. The key locations being:

Inverness, Nairn, Elgin, Fort William, Dingwall, Alness, Thurso, Wick, Ullapool, Lerwick (Shetland), Kirkwall (Orkney) Stornoway (Lewis).

We understand that relocating can be difficult, therefore we hope this page will give you some useful information about the Highlands of Scotland. For additional information, we recommend that you follow the web links listed below.

www.hspc.co.uk
www.remax-scotland.com
www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/living.htm
www.insituhomesearch.com
www.alness.com
www.visit-alness.co.uk
www.highland.gov.uk/learninghere/schools/schoollist
www.northhighlandsscotland.com