I left city life to move to an island with fewer than 50 people. Two years and a baby later, I have no plans to leave.
I moved from a city of about 650,000 to an island with 46 people.
Elle Duffy Two years ago, I left Glasgow for the Isle of Rum , a Scottish island with fewer than 50 people.
At first, there were some tough adjustments, like the lack of on-island healthcare.
However, the close-knit community here is really special — and helped me feel ready to have a baby.
I can see the mountains from my bedroom window.
In the warmer months, the hillside is green, lush with free-flowing grass and dotted with bruising heather bushes.
Red deer graze lazily, and the herons nest in the tall trees.
There's a waterfall that slices through the middle of the hills, delivering both the island's water supply and electricity source in one fluid downpour.
Out here on the Isle of Rum, water is never in short supply.
This island sits in Scotland's Inner Hebrides , a cluster of islands to the country's west.
Fewer than 50 people currently live here, and I'm one of them.
I didn't grow up on Rum, and before I moved here two years ago, I never would have predicted that this would be my life.
Now, though, I don't plan to leave.
I fell in love with Rum the first time I visited I spent months daydreaming about Rum after visiting.
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