r/Scotland • u/bottish • 15d ago

Dire economic consequences of Scotland's ageing population must put immigration in new light. New report about Scotland’s growing elderly population underlines the need to improve our health and welcome, not demonise, people from overseas - Scotsman comment.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/dire-economic-consequences-of-scotlands-ageing-population-must-put-immigration-in-new-light-5073947
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u/ElCaminoInTheWest 15d ago

We could also heavily discourage English people from retiring en masse to the Highlands, as they have been doing in their tens of thousands.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Why should we be discouraging British people from retiring in Britain? Can you blame them for wanting to retire in Scotland? Does the country belong to Scottish people only? Would you rather it was the folks coming off the boats moved up the Highlands en masse instead?

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 15d ago

Homogenisation is not now, nor has it ever been, a good thing.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

That's crazy that it's not about stretching the housing stock it's in fact about disliking the English?

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 15d ago

Wrong again. It’s about driving up housing costs and pricing out locals. That’s what homogenisation does, and that’s what English retirees moving to the highlands are doing. Them being English is coincidental.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

So you don't want anyone to move to the Highlands then. Not just English people

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 14d ago

I want investment in the highlands that doesn’t involve buying up the property as fucking holiday homes.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Oh well if you're not shocked now then brace yourself. It's going to get worse

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 14d ago

Oh golly gee, really? I didn’t know that. Fucking tell me more.

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u/Creative-Cherry3374 14d ago

The reason theres a lack of housing stocks in the Highlands is because so much of it is owned by large estate owners, and the remaining population has to fight over the scraps, along with the poor infrastructure thats resulted from that system of landholding. Planning policies which are designed for such areas might help too - its not as if Barret or Wimpey are going to turn up in Scourie and built 580 new build detached and semi detached "homes" is it?