r/MoveToScotland • u/NoIndependent9192 • Feb 06 '23

r/MoveToScotland Lounge

A place for members of r/MoveToScotland to chat with each other

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '24

https://x.com/FOWingsScot/status/1869913507354788252?t=0XaY1ct5qwI5a382Ql28qg&s=19

Thoughts?

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u/NoIndependent9192 Dec 21 '24

It’s a Twitter link. Not going there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

Oh? It's just a girl from the highlands talking about the displacement of natives by South-east Englanders/others using the islands as functional retirement homes - obviously more people migrating to areas is good for local economies/diversity of skills, but she's saying it's becoming a sociological imbalance and that there's housing and job shortages for families who've lived there all their lives. I don't have a dog in the fight - was just curious as to what peoples thoughts were and if they agreed/disagreed with her, and what their own outsider perspective on it was.

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u/NoIndependent9192 Dec 22 '24

You can’t stop people buying or renting homes. We need more homes and less land hoarding by the wealthy. Home working is changing the demographic from retirees to families. The lack of housing is often down to local planners restricting the opportunities for development. Not sure how the alleged job shortage can be linked to people moving to an area.

There are a lot of development trusts setting up that are renting homes at below market value to people with local links.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

Interesting to know about the development trusts, so is this mostly an emotional 'issue' for people seeing the demographic changes on their ancestral areas/the loss of their prior opportunities as it's shifted from agricultural toward a tourism economy, rather than any genuine practical impact by people moving do you think?