Want to move in Scotland

Curt wrote:

crackedpipes wrote:Another reason: if you have never been to Scotland you would be surprised to see how the people there are courteous and nice, even truck drivers who thank you when you give them a way.
I have never seen this before in whole Europe...

Europe is a pretty big place. I think you will find courteous drivers in much of Scandinavia.

If I was lucky enough to have and EU passport, I would move about. Go for it.

Would be interesting to live in a couple different places in the EU, but too expensive to move and find new jobs all the time. The same reason why more people don't try living different states, there's so much here to see and experience too.

Tampa is nice place, so is Colorado, the list is long of places to see!

Sure it would be nice to live in the US too; I have been only in NY and in California, but I guess there are some other nice places to be; but idealism and morality seem to follow different ways in US and Europe?

well if you fancy hopping JUST across the channel -consider SOUTHAMPTON or Hampshire. There is a strengthening piping community down here

John

John MacDonald wrote:well if you fancy hopping JUST across the channel -consider SOUTHAMPTON or Hampshire. There is a strengthening piping community down here

John

.....but is that enough to make up for being surrounded by Engerlunders?

It is when you relieve them of the Gig money

MurdoMac wrote:

John MacDonald wrote:well if you fancy hopping JUST across the channel -consider SOUTHAMPTON or Hampshire. There is a strengthening piping community down here

John

.....but is that enough to make up for being surrounded by Engerlunders?

Yer right Ron, he'd be better aff in God's country.........good oul Ulster. Home of the worlds best in most grades

REDNECK wrote:

Yer right Ron, he'd be better aff in God's country.........good oul Ulster. Home of the worlds best in most grades

Yeh been on the mourne mist m8

World champs 2008 G1 SFU = Canadian
G2 Bagad Cap Caval = France
G3aMackenzie Caledonia = Scotland
G3bCentral Polis = Scotland
Juvenile Inveraray = Scotland
G4aColcille = gie yeh that yin
G4b Stockbridge =Scotland
Novice Bucksburn = Scotland

I don't really know about the economic situation in Scotland today, but recently read in a newspaper "The Independent" that Edinburgh is one of the best place of UK and more protected of recession because of the vast majority of high graduate people living there.
Anyway, 2009 is the "homecoming year" in Scotland, and I hope there will be some associations that will help people of Scottish origins to plan their comeback...

hey, maybe you're not so daft....maybe you're the cleverest fecker alive.......the way things are going......you could be the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland........... ......for a few bob....

I was thinking myself of buying the bank over, but I thought 5 pence was a bit too much to pay.....

p.s......anyone read "The Sun" today?

And no I don't mean just Page 3.

(a) apparently the new Prime Minister of Iceland is a "lesser".....

(b) the security chief of Gordon Brown's cabinet office has been suspended for employing a bloke as security advisor who faked that he had served in the SAS, when he had in fact been a medic in the TA...

(c) Angelina Jolie is not going to be the next Lara Croft....and;

(d) Amy Winehouse has been playing scrabble ....topless.

And you Americans have the nerve to think that Tom Clancy and John Grisham's new joint novel, namely "Cleveland Obama and the Waving Para-Military Drummie" is the story of the month?

Boy.....how far from reality are you?

MurdoMac wrote:Boy.....how far from reality are you?

Living in this sleepy little Cow Town, I'm sure glad to have the forum for keeping up on World events!

Thanks Murdo for the reality check!

Veteran Piper wrote:

MurdoMac wrote:Boy.....how far from reality are you?

Living in this sleepy little Cow Town, I'm sure glad to have the forum for keeping up on World events!

Thanks Murdo for the reality check!

Cow Town?

How often do you have to stop for them because they're in the road, eh?



Those, and wild turkeys. (No, not the kind you drink!).

I'm not kidding.

crackedpipes wrote:Sure it would be nice to live in the US too; I have been only in NY and in California, but I guess there are some other nice places to be; but idealism and morality seem to follow different ways in US and Europe?

I think we have more of both over here. I'm not saying that's necessarily good or bad, just that it is.

(By "morality" I mean that more people make an issue of staking out the high ground, not that the results, on a national level, are reflected in the goal.)

bob wrote:

Cow Town?

How often do you have to stop for them because they're in the road, eh?

Well, two minute drive and you're out in the country, lots of orchards too.
It's all agricultural around here for miles, very little manufacturing!

Veteran Piper wrote:

bob wrote:

Cow Town?

How often do you have to stop for them because they're in the road, eh?

Well, two minute drive and you're out in the country, lots of orchards too.
It's all agricultural around here for miles, very little manufacturing!

If you go northwest, between Sacramento and the bay, there's a town called Vacaville, which is Spanish, literally "Cow Town." I've been there, and it sounds similar to your description.

It's amazing when you drive on I-80 how there's just miles and miles of cows. All that unimproved land while people are stacked up bumper to bumper for 4 hours. Crazy.

crackedpipes wrote:I don't really know about the economic situation in Scotland today, but recently read in a newspaper "The Independent" that Edinburgh is one of the best place of UK and more protected of recession because of the vast majority of high graduate people living there.
Anyway, 2009 is the "homecoming year" in Scotland, and I hope there will be some associations that will help people of Scottish origins to plan their comeback...

Think you may looking at Scotland through rose-tinted spectacles.

Not sure what you mean by "high graduate people"?

Looking at one of the main job search websites, www.s1jobs.com, currently it's showing aproximately 4,500 vacancies. When I was looking last year, and indeed most other times I've checked over the last few years, the total number of vacancies advertised on that site was in the 7000 or 8000 region.

Here's a bit about Edinburgh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Edinburgh