Back of Keppoch sits on the road out toward Arisaig, the kind of hamlet where the houses are spaced by fields and sightlines rather than pavements, and where a passing car is enough to make you look up. There's no high street to describe, no cluster of shopfronts — this is a scatter of crofts and cottages against the coast, and whoever ends up here has usually chosen it on purpose, not landed by convenience. I won't pretend to have the numbers that would normally fill out a picture like this one — nothing has come through on house prices, schools, transport links or crime for Back of Keppoch itself, which is common enough for a settlement this small and this quiet. What I can say is that it sits within the wider Scotland-wide pattern of an ageing population (the national median age hovers around 43) and a place where population density is a small fraction of the national average — this corner of the West Highlands is defined by space, not by how many people share it. Without local detail on schools, health services, or the property market, it would be guesswork to tell you whether a For Sale sign here means croft house or new build, or whether the nearest doctor is five minutes or forty away. What's clear from its setting is the trade-off you're making just by looking at it: you get coastline, quiet, and distance from almost everything, in exchange for accepting that day-to-day life will take more planning than it would in a town. If that trade already sounds like the point rather than the drawback, you've probably already answered your own question.