Edinburgh: The City I Keep Leaving

<p>Iam, at heart, a homebody and perhaps that is why part of me is forever shocked I don&rsquo;t live in my birth city. It&rsquo;s especially dumbfounding given just how sensational Edinburgh, Scotland is as an abode: knock it out the park architecture everywhere the eye can see; it&rsquo;s a manageable size (everything is basically ten minutes away from everything else); it is a place of international significance, historically (the birthplace of the Age of Enlightenment) and now (the city&rsquo;s population doubles in size every August for its miscellany of festivals (International, Fringe, Book, Jazz)).</p> <p>I left Edinburgh for the first time in 2000, aged seventeen to go to university (destination: Oxford) and returned in 2003, only to leave it again in 2012, aged twenty-eight (destination: London) hoping to leave behind my broken-heart and to kickstart my life as a blindsided singleton.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/checkmate11/edinburgh-the-city-i-keep-leaving-d17de9aab967"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>