u/tannerocampbell

Good morning.

I'm a public philosopher and I'm hosting a half-day philosophy workshop in Leicester in late May and am doing a lot of marketing to promote it.

Presently I'm only marketing it locally.

I'd like to include Nottingham in my promotional efforts, but I have a limited budget. Not a nothing budget, but not a massive one either.

So my question is: do people from Nottingham regularly travel to Leicester for events? Or is it too far?

Thanks for your time.

Morning.

I'm a public philosopher in the process of organising a half-day philosophy event in Leicester in late May.

Never mind the specifics, they aren't important to my question and they'd put me at risk of violating rule 6 anyway.

My question is: do people commonly travel to Leicester for events from places like Birmingham, Nottingham, etc?

Should I be promoting the event in areas "nearby" to Leicestershire, or is that unadvisable?

Thanks for whatever advice you can offer.

My wife and I live in Maidenhead presently. We’ve just finished a two week Scotland: Glasgow, Fort William, Skye and Raasay, Inverness, Ballater, Aberfeldy, Dundee, and Edinburgh.

For my part, put me in a stone cottage in the Cairngorms and let me rot there. I absolutely love Ballater. But my wife isn’t the same in that regard, she’s looking for something specific.

I work in philosophy, and I works from home.

My wife is English NHS but isn’t necessarily set of remaining with the NHS if we move.

Here’s what she’s looking for:

1. A “cozy” home with modern features. By which she seems to mean: C or better EPC, car charging port (which of course we could always have installed). Beyond this she can’t be specific. 🤷‍♂️
2. Within driving distance of “everything you need” she defined “within driving distance” of the time it took to get from Perth to Dundee. So, not exceptionally close.
3. That the place that has “everything you need” is centralised. She didn’t care for Dundee’s high street and downtown area because it felt too spread out. She sited Newcastle upon Tyne as having a great centralised downtown.

And that’s the scope of her “ideal.”

My motivations are bringing my UK born son (I’m and immigrant from America) to Scotland to live with knowledge of his heritage. I’m especially keen to get him into a GME (he’s just turned two). My family left Renfrewshire in 1890 and I’ve always wanted to return. There’s a bit of whimsy about it, of course, I romanticise it a bit, as most Americans with even a drop of Scottish blood tend to, but the desire to live there is not limited to it having beautiful landscapes and moody weather. I do want to live there. We both do.

With all this in mind. Could you suggest some places that may fit?

Edit: I should have noted, were more familiar with Scotland than just this 2 week trip. Having previously lived in Newcastle, we’ve made many trips up to the Speyside and Lowland areas.