I moved out of Scotland a few years back as I wasn't comfortable with the amount of uncertainty concerning its future. I also felt uncomfortable with the parochial, intolerant and blinkered thinking so many SNP supporters indulge in.
As a bit of an expert on the EU, it was really getting quite annoying to be told nonsense about Scotland joining the EU when it clearly doesn't meet the accession criteria and won't do for quite some time. The prospect of a country with no written constitution, a weak separation of powers, a unicameral parliament which is overseen by itself and with EU membership with its fundamental human rights protection (more detailed than and in addition to the ECHR, its where our Freedom of information rights come from for instance) was not something that appealed. The fact that tax has gone up and the economy, particularly in Aberdeen, has not exactly prospered since has reinforced the view that I got that one right.
I'm also not very comfortable with the behaviour that seems prevalent in so many places. In Scotland, as a single female doing a lot of things alone, such as cycling, I did seem to get rather a lot of abuse from NEDS and children. There are a hell of a lot of abusive, deeply sexist men. Its also far easier to get decent job opportunities outwith Scotland. I do realise its not perfect in England, but I've lived in a few different countries in the world and I think a lot of Scots don't realise that things are done a lot better in many of them.
I am rather fed up of hearing that the EU will be desperate for Scotland to join because its such a "beautiful" country. As if there were no other beautiful countries in the world. Most Scots don't live in the beautiful parts of Scotland but instead live in the not very beautiful Central Belt where the jobs are, but where, sadly, the transport infrastructure is dreadful. I also got very fed up with hearing how pro EU the SNP is when in reality they pass a great deal of legislation which actually contravenes EU competition law and fundamental rights and are often up before the CJEU. For instance, the Scottish Government's last White Paper on Independence contained a section which explained why they opposed the extension of Freedom of Information to Environmental Issues, as they thought it would create too much work and "no-one outside Scotland would be interested in making such a request". It was laughably incompetent and scary at the same time.
An independent Scotland is likely to be a very socialist, high tax state, with high dependence on welfare, high levels of "poverty" which 100 years from now would still be blamed on England, with rather too much parliament rhetoric about how wonderful it is while the reality is spending 3 1/2 hours to get from Edinburgh to Glasgow in rush hour because the train hasn't turned up yet again. Very controlling legislation on what you can and cannot do. Possibly a bit like Lithuania. Not terrible but not typically Northern European either. If it were a bit like a northern Switzerland, for sure I'd want to live there. But its not.