Don't flame me for this - just an observation

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I work in conveyancing and I have noticed a huge upsurge in people from England trying to sell up and move to Scotland. I know they will get more for their money up there but someone today and yesterday were total pissed off the Government. I am sure it works both ways and there is an influx to England but has anyone noticed a difference - particularly people from London especially.

No actually @XingMing I was asking a question.

I know they will get more for their money up there but someone today and yesterday were total pissed off the Government.

What does this mean?

No sane female would want to move to Scotland where the SNP are systematically destroying women's sex based rights.

I live in Edinburgh, we could get a bigger house in my in-laws leafy village in the Home Counties for less money.

I come from rural Scotland and there were always loads of English people around. Most of my school friends were English. Up here in Edinburgh, the biggest Indy supporters I know are English.

Please can someone explain what they mean about Scotland and safeguarding issues and what a TERF is?
I feel so old reading threads lately as I have no idea what abbreviations mean!

I agree. I've considered moving to Scotland, and might still do so, but houses in most Scottish areas are no cheaper where I live now. (Northern England)

Oh I agree entirely
I'm just always amazed that people think houses are much cheaper in Scotland. Apart from a few areas they're really not.
And they don't allow for the offers over system so don't realise the house will sell for considerably more than the advertised price.

Where (vaguely) is this? I have an English accent as does DH and apart from being called “posh” the odd time at school I’ve never had any issues. I work in quite an “Indy” county and and I’ve never had anyone say anything. What kind of things do people say?

Where are the figures in this? I thought the divide opened up again this year.

@Worriedddd have you actually experienced that? I'm Scottish, my Mum is English. My Mum has lived here, in Central Scotland, for over 50 years. She gets no bother at all. Maybe the odd twat every 10 years or so but that odd twat does not represent the rest of us Scottish folk.

My daughter is Scottish, goes to primary school, and has friends in her class from Poland, America, England, Turkey.

Yes you may come across the odd arsehole, but that is exactly what they are, arseholes, and you get them in every country.

Cheaper property is a red herring - north of England is just as cheap, even cheaper in parts than Scotland.

My DCs have English accents. Sometimes their friends observe they “sound English” and they say “I know”. I don’t doubt there will be areas where the reaction might be a more barbed comment but honestly neither me or DH have experienced it.

I really wish some of this was means tested. I can afford to pay and I would rather I did and those cuts that John Swinney has announced be less severe.

We are Scottish and between the DC they have friends that are English, Portuguese, Friench, Syrian, Polish, American, Canadian and Ukrainian. In one DC’s class they celebrate Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, Chinese NY, Passover and Diwali due to the wonderful diversity in her class.

Contribute what you consider to be a fair amount to your favourite charity.

Lots of English retirees where I grew up in rural Scotland, moving there after spending their tax-earning life in England.

Most people I know won’t even holiday in Scotland now, such is the anti English sentiment

Are they all as charming and polite as you? Just a thought.

It's quite amusing to claim that my post must be fictional, or that the people I know are 'stupid' simply because of your opinion on rejoicing the EU 😂

But then, given the hyperbolic remainder of your post, I'll take it all with large pinch of Maldon.

My family have lived in Scotland for decades, btw.

I would rather the government stopped subsidising those who can afford it at the expense of those who can afford it the least.

Well said, indeed!

I'm mightily scunnered with people (who may not even ever have visited Scotland) telling me what's wrong with my country, our attitudes, our politics etc. etc. etc.

Smacks very much of the very colonialism from which we strive to be free. Particularly so when you just know, in your bones, if say the French or Germans or Indians or Americans or anyone else attempted a similar lecture aimed at them they'd become completely enraged ..... 🙂

We moved from England to Scotland this summer.

Well, that's not going to happen.

I'm glad that's so because having read so many threads on here where people should be able to manage on their salaries, they simply cannot.

There's one thread on here where people are unable to afford eye tests, their prescriptions, dental check ups etc. etc.

I'd genuinely suggest anyone who believes they are receiving a 'benefit' to which they do not feel entitled, they contribute the same amount to a relevant charity to assuage their 'guilt' or 'anger'.

Similar to what many others, across the UK, are doing with their non means-tested £400 energy 'benefit' from the UK government.

DH and I have discussed this on and off since the EU referendum. We just don’t like Tory politics, but there’s a section of the English who go weak at the knees for toffs so will vote in any old bollocks if it sounds upper class.

I can’t see any way but down for the UK currently. The only issue is DHs concerns about the weather. I

The issue isn't about ordinary folk moving here; it's about people selling London properties at massively inflated prices, then coming up to Scotland to buy up property, thus pushing prices up so that local families/ young people can never afford to buy a property. It's been happening for years.

It's happened all over Cornwall, and is happening in Northumberland right now.

I'm absolutely sick of going to Skye/ Arran and I hear fewer and fewer Scottish voices; St Andrews has been a joke for decades.

😂😂😂

Yes I have my family live on the west coast of Scotland.

I live in pretty perthshire and for c. 500K you get a stone farmhouse with steadings normally with a bit converted into home office/ holiday cottage. It is a trek back down South but the sleeper train is full of people who travel down for 2-3 days and work from home the rest of the time.

I get the appeal. No neighbours. Decent size garden. If you can work from home then it can make really good financial sense.