Scotland - Relocate To This Beautiful Country

My wife is an expert on Scotland. She writes about it for a living. Although born in the south east of England, she is a Robertson through and through and has returned to her roots, bringing me along with her. I'm very grateful! And, I'm not the only willing settler in this great country. The Scotsman newspaper recently reported that immigrants 'accounted for 68 per cent of population growth in Scotland between 1991 and 2001'. At the time of the 2001 census, 168,142 people living in Scotland had been born abroad. This figure, of course, does not include people like me who were born in another part of the UK. Of those born abroad, Americans, Pakistanis and even Spaniards comprise a significant proportion of recent immigrants, many of them highly skilled. 37 per cent of those moving here hold a higher level qualification and the number falling into the 'high earner' bracket is almost twice the UK average, says the report. "Can you explain this?" I asked my wife. "Easy," she said, "it's just a great place to live!" And here are her 8 reasons why it is such a great place: 1 There is elbow room. With less than 6 million people, and an area of 30,420 sq. miles, there is room to breathe. Its population is about one tenth of the population of England and Wales, yet the mainland comprises over half the area of Great Britain. 2 House prices are considerably lower than in many other parts of the UK. In Edinburgh, the average is