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The bulk of that is on the London - Edinburgh train (a nice 4.5 hour block).

Oxford to Edinburgh takes about 6 hours on the train, going via London.

And of course, I got the best part of a whole extra day in Edinburgh with the time saved.

A better comparison would be Edinburgh <-> London, at 410 miles or so.

It was slightly cheaper for me to: * Drive to Birmingham airport * Pay for airport parking * Fly to Edinburgh * Get the bus to/from Edinburgh center...than to get the train, booked about a month in advance.

I've used the same taxi company here in Edinburgh for years - helps that recent employers of mine have also had accounts with them.

We're a growing team of 85, based in Edinburgh but with remote staff around the UK (7 engineers are fully remote).

I'm in Scotland, and drove from South of Glasgow up as far as Fort William, across to Aviemore, and back down to Edinburgh about 3 weeks ago.

Last year, I went to Edinburgh from Oxford.

[NB I appreciate that Edinburgh may be the exception - but Europe is rather large and diverse so making such a generalisation about an entire continent seems rather unwise].

I moved to Edinburgh when I graduated, and forgetting about my salary, my rent is a good 300 euro less a month, my transport bills are lower, I live in a nicer flat than I did before, and general costs of living are lower than they were in Dublin.

Still trying to find the startup clique, though; is there an "HN Edinburgh"?

This is another reason why I love living in Edinburgh, the salary difference is far smaller than the "nice life" cost of living difference.

"in Europe" Becoming a taxi driver here in Edinburgh appears to cost £165 - which includes a test which appears to be pretty straightforward to pass.

"the benefit really isn't there any more." Going from city centre to city centre on business I find trains to be much more pleasant than flying or driving - even going to London from here in Edinburgh is worth it - the trip is fairly scenic (e.g.

Well, there's between one and two trains per hour between London and Edinburgh, each holding about 600 people.

Headquartered in Edinburgh, TVSquared is an exciting, fast-growing startup with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

So that's more just on train capacity, and there's up to 53 flights a day between London and Edinburgh.