Moving to Scotland - Cheap Flats ?

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Hi Gents,

Prologue: Recently realised what an idiot i am renting a Room for £480 a month (inc bills though) in a big city when I have no chance of getting a Paper Pushing job, Warehouse and delivery jobs exist everywhere so no need to live in a HCOL area to earn £8.72 an hour. I started looking at cheap flats up north but realised they are in stholes up north on rough council estates in Liverpool or similar. Found some decent newish flats for £45-50k but they have crazy Leasehold service charges of £2000 a year.

Started looking at Scotland, property seems to be very cheap.

I understand that Flats in scotland are freehold, do you still have to pay crazy (£1000+ yr) service charges ? Or are essential repair bills just split between the owners as and when required.

Renfrew https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
Glasgow https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...
Aberdeen https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop...

Can a fellow Scottish PH advise me on if these flats are in very bad areas and would i be living next to DSS drug addicts ? or is property just generally cheap in Scotland.

TIA