If Scotland voted for independence, would you move elsewhere for a bit to see how things shake out?

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I would (and would definitely move my savings out of Scotland until things stabilised)

Probably hypothetical for at least a while just wondering if anyone strongly feels they'd stick around to ride it out.

I'd be moving south of that border faster than you can say "Nicola Sturgeon bought a motor home using SNP finances"

Fuck that shit, I'd be gone.

Yes, with great sorrow. No wish to live in very poor country or to lose all my savings and income in more tax.

I voted for independence in the referendum, but the last few years of Scottish Government have been such a shitshow on multiple fronts, that I would seriously consider leaving. I deeply love Scotland, but I wouldn't feel safe financially or culturally.

During the referendum I said I would but realistically probably not. I don't think it's ever going to happen though so we're safe.

My parents will move to England

Please don't be responsible for them living closer to me. Thanks.

Presumably you're in the middle of leaving the UK then?

Would leave without a second thought.

You could always try Northern Ireland. Still in the Single Market. Yet hanging onto Westminster for dear life.

It depends. Do they have any interesting policies that may keep me there such as Universal Basic Income? I say keep me there but really I should say move me back there. I live in England already 😂

I like the idea of any independent Scotland but in reality I have visions of an uptick in people claiming disability and claiming every benefit going and the ones in the middle who are not rich but work full time and don’t have a tonne of kids being taxed to the hilt. As well as a crumbling education sector.

I have already left. Now living in the north of England with the rest of the family. Our decisions were made really because half of my extended family is English and the situation of Scotland possibly becoming a separate country made us decide to all gradually relocate. The decision was made after the referendum but well before the fall of the SNP leaders.

The decision was provoked somewhat by the rhetoric of the 'indy' campaign but specifically by a lack of faith in any of the people advocating for independence who might actually be in charge of it. I don't think they have ever understood / are willing to admit to themselves the sheer scale of what that would mean, nor do I think any of them have the ability or skills needed to build a new nation and take everyone with them. Too many of them are mediocre meme-sharers who have no idea what being in the UK means for Scotland on multiple levels.

In particular, the possibility of losing Sterling and shared UK resources as well as the instability and upheaval and bad feeling prompted our long-term decision to leave. The possibility of people trying to take Scotland out of the UK seems to have receded but I feel it remains as a threat. It was maybe easier for me as a 'half English' person but I don't regret leaving.

I am a mortgage-free homeowner. I would be fearful of a house price crash after a Yes vote that would leave me with little to buy elsewhere.

I hope the electorate would have a good understanding of the economic reality before voting. Without Barnet there is a 9% budget deficit. How will this be covered? Slashing public services, borrowing with a junk credit rating or taxing the 'rich' and seeing a brain drain? We would look back on Brexit and the cost-of-living crisis as the golden years.

I'd be moving.

I wouldn't want to live in a country that had gone mad and it wouldn't be fair to my English husband or half-English children to have to live in a place run by anti-english nationalists.

We have had this discussion. DH is English, I am Scottish. His job would more than likely be relocated, but he is planning on taking early retirement at 55 or 56 which isn't that many years away. We would move probably to Northumberland,

How are they anti-English? Perhaps I’ve missed that part of the campaigning as I’m not in Scotland and was actually abroad at the time, but all the English people I know living in Scotland voted YES including my former youth club leader and his kids.

Is there actually serious talk of another referendum.

I have no skin in the game. Just interested

No there's not. The SNP has just taken a walloping in the general election and are imploding in a mess of gender recognition, overbudget ferries, corruption, sleaze and criminal charges for the former First Minister's husband.

Well luckily the SNP are a busted flush so it's all hypothetical.
I'm in Dumfries and Galloway which is chock-full of English anyway. I'd probably stay put because I love it here, but not sure what my kids and grandkids would do.

You absolutely have missed a vital part of the overall rhetoric. English = representatives of Westminster = the enemy.

None of the English people I know voted yes.

I am a mortgage-free homeowner. I would be fearful of a house price crash after a Yes vote that would leave me with little to buy elsewhere

As much as I say I wouldn't live in an independent Scotland, I suspect the reality is I would be forced to for reasons such as this. And whether we would both get jobs elsewhere quick enough to make a move viable.

Probably not, though I'm very much against it.

The nature of DH's job means that he'd be guaranteed work for a bloody long time, and otherwise we're fairly insulated from the worst of the economic problems that would inevitably follow (Brexit would be nothing compared with that).

We already can't see a GP because services where we are are so woefully run so that wouldn't change.

Probably. Dh works for a French firm so if his work moved so would we (he's an EU passport holder).

Well, I'd be one of the ones voting for independence, so obviously I'd want to stay.

I have a suspicion some yes voters would themselves leave for the difficult bit. But then some people don't have savings to lose and don't own a home (including younger people) so they will poss make a different calculation.