I live here and consider myself to be the luckiest person in the world every time I wake up and look out my window.
We don’t hate the English, this is nonsense. However we have an inbred dislike of assholes and tend not to suffer fools gladly. So if you have a chip on your shoulder about something, it’ll be spotted and dislodged before you can say haggis, especially more in the West than the east.
Weather tends to be drier and sunnier in the east but often colder but less midges in the east. West milder, wetter but beautiful nonetheless.
Midges like damp, still conditions so prevail in the wilder places with such conditions. Not apparent in the cities. They don’t like wind and strong sunlight. Rannoch Moor is where they are most fierce from Late June to September if the conditions are right, and parts of Skye.
Scotland is heaving with tourists but they all seem to congregate around places that feature on bucket lists. So Edinburgh, Inverness, Loch Ness, Skye, NC500 are mobbed.
I was born here and have lived here all my 50 years in various parts and would say that there are so many more tourists now than years ago. Places I used to go that would have a car park for a dozen vehicles (which would never be full) now have parking for the masses and it’s still nigh on impossible to find a space. This is a good thing though coz we depend so much on tourism.
But you can still go off the beaten track and meet no-one. But I’m not telling you where on a public forum. Go dig out a map and look for the roads less travelled for there will be a view round every corner.
I’ve lived in the west and the east and travelled extensively to every part of Scotland. There’s no place like it and yes Glasgow is the friendliest City. You’ll make three new pals just going for a piss in a pub.
And to repeat, we don’t hate the English or anyone else, just assholes. Where you’re from is interesting but once you’re here you’re one of us, that’s how we role.