u/croc_enthusiast1

I’m a local who works in Edinburgh, I’m currently staying with my family in South Queensferry. My partner and I are looking for flats to rent in the city (preferably Gorgie or Leith) and we are desperate to move out asap.
We have a budget of £850 pcm for a one bed flat. I’m wondering how realistic this budget is? I know it’s gotten more expensive over the last few years. There are a few that have popped up along the £950 mark and I’m not sure if it’s worth to stretch the budget a bit, or to just wait and see if cheaper properties pop up.
Very nosy question but if you live in the city, what is it you pay for a one bed flat? What’s a realistic budget?

For some background my sister (21) and I (24) have been quite close overall. My sister has always been the one that my family walks on eggshells around. She’s never really changed since her “bitchy teenager” phase. I always let her walk all over me. For example, I went the majority of my life without dating anyone. She’s had a boyfriend since high school so I was always taken the piss out of because I had never had one. I’ve dealt with an eating disorder for years and was always told by her how “grossly skinny” I was and she has always made constant digs at my physical appearance. I took this as me being too sensitive and it’s what siblings do.
We have three other siblings, so it was the situation where she would jokingly call us “fat” but if anyone uttered a word like that in her direction she would flip out. She’s the type of person who blames everyone for her mental health issues.
Fast forward to last year when I had to rent a flat with her. We both had no one to rent with so we decided to just rent together. Bad idea, I know.
The area we lived in was expensive and she constantly moaned about having no money and wanted to move to a cheaper area. I was the one who did everything. Bills, apartment applications, etc. all she had to do was send me her half.
Fast forward to October last year and we moved to a cheaper area 15 mins away. Again, I organised everything because I knew nothing would get done by her. I started dating my now boyfriend at this time also. He got along great with my sister to begin with.

January is when everything started. My sister’s boyfriend proposed. She completely changed her tune. All of a sudden she’s wanting to save to buy a house (she works part time) and is moaning about rent even more.
She decided in mid February that she wanted to move in with her boyfriend’s family to save money. Fine, whatever. The problem was, she told me she would be gone at the end of February. I flipped, told her she can’t just leave a lease without at least a month’s notice. That she would leave me with nowhere else to go in time.
Her response was that I had a boyfriend so “he could just take over the lease”. Bear in mind I had been dating him for 5 months and he wasn’t in a situation to take over the lease.
The cherry on top is, in her final weeks of staying at our flat, she would go bitching to my mum and making up bare-faced lies that I and my boyfriend (who would visit some days) were “making her life a misery”. She would call people in the middle of the night and threaten to harm herself for attention. My boyfriend was nothing but kind and collected with her after all this blew up and she made out that he was some kind of villain.
I had no choice but to put my months’ notice in and scrape money together to sort out final bills and rent. I had to move back in with my Mum, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so I’m still currently sleeping on her couch until my boyfriend and I can save to rent our own place.

I blocked her on everything and completely cut her out of my life. It’s proving difficult as I’m living with my family and she keeps visiting. My mum wants me to make up with her but she doesn’t understand. I’m the type of person to roll over and just forgive but I’m not doing it anymore. AIO?