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.... and chippy sauce.
I've been in Edinburgh 23 years and love it.
Weather is dry and mild for Scotland.
City itself is compact and beautiful - the Castle, Arthur's Seat.
Some great pubs and restaurants.
Hogmanay, the festival, and 6N rugby weekends all add to the buzz.
If you're going to be working near the airport then I can recommend Cramond (4 miles away by bike) - nice place, if a bit expensive, River Almond, and beach on your doorstep. Five minutes and I can be in the countryside on road bike or mountain/gravel bike (into Dalmeny Estate, which is lovely).
Great choice of city 👌
Haven't read it all bug.
I live in Peebles and commute to herriot watt campus.
40minute drive.
1.5hr bike bus and bike
Like 2hours on the bus (because while everyone says the Edinburgh buses are decent (and they are) the actual routes are atrocious and drag you all the way in to the centre and all the way back out.
Peebles is shit though obviously, don't come here.
You want a bus to take you from door to door?
No far from it.
What I want is a bus network that is set up to get people where they need to be sensibly.
Ie. Orbital routes. There isn't even a proper route on the bypass.
My general commute is bus with bike to gowkley moss. Get off and cycle round the city about split 50/50 timewise.
To continue on public transport... another half hour to Princes Street then 45minutes back out.
In a less extreme example Newington to herriot watt shouldn't be a two bus* (more specifically two charges) routed through the city centre. It should be three buses. One to the nearest orbital, orbital to the suitable branch then in or out of town to the closest bus stop. And it should be one fee in the same way if you are lucky enough to live in Leith means you can nearly always get a single bus to your location and therefore one charge.
Routing everything across town means unnecessary congestion in the centre.
Simples.
*Might be a bad example but I think you should get my point.
Does the 32/52 not still do the circular route?
Edinburgh used to have a circular bus route the 32/52. One went clockwise and the other went counter-clockwise, joining up Sighthill with Craigmillar with Granton etc. Always an interesting trip. It was canned about 20 years ago. Irvine Welsh said that every tourist or festival luvvie who comes to Edinburgh should be dragged out of the Old Town and made to do a circuit and see Edinburgh properly.