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Having recently bought a house outside of Glasgow, I have some notes on commutable places. I mostly looked north and east due to the express line to Edinburgh, which I wanted to stay close to for access to work. Also, you're likely not going to find a tiny town with good transport links, so my suggestions are all town sized or slightly bigger.

**North and East:**

**Stirling:**
Commutable, smaller than you think, depressing as fuck. Bit of a shame really, Stirling feels like it should be a really nice place and is commutable for Glasgow + Edinburgh, but it's just a bit crap. Bridge of Allen nearby is nice, but I assume expensive.

**Bishopbriggs and Lenzie:**
Both have a train station with regular trains to both Glasgow and Edinburgh. Lenzie is supposed to be quite nice, and I have some friends who almost moved to Bishopbriggs. They are probably more suburban than you want though.

**Croy & Kilsyth:**
Croy is on the mainline, but it feels very much souless suburbia. Kilsyth is nearby, small and quite nice, but it'll be a bus or bike to Croy to get the train to get further afield.

**Uddingston and Bothwell:**
Nice, but very expensive. Decent links to Glasgow. Very much suburban rather than town and country feel though.


**West:**

Honestly, I'd move out West if I didn't need easy access to Edinburgh for work.

**Helensburgh:**
Seems really nice. A little far out maybe, but there's a cross-country train which goes all the way to Edinburgh (and takes like 3 hours).

**Bowling and Old Kilpatrick:**
On the Helensburgh line, they look really nice from a distance, but I haven't been. Again, if I could move West I would have probably looked here.

**Dumbarton:**
Despite hearing some disparaging things about Dumbarton, it seems like quite a nice place.


**South:**

**Paisley:** Another butt-of-jokes place. Very good transport links, though.