Grow up Dave, who said EVERYONE from the South was "money rich and emotionally starved"? ;0).... You've been studying Ian's M O, haven't you Dave.

The people from the South of England who buy houses up here on the West Coast are very much like that....as Dougie says, they come thundering in, not a clue about Scottish culture or how we do things.

Remember, in my lifetime Gaelic was still spoken in many places as a first language.
Our culture is slowly being eroded by the "Southern rain"

To be quite blunt Dave, you haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about....How could you know?
I live in the same house that my grandfather lived in, almost 70 years of getting to understand the Scottish psychology, watching my boyhood friends turn into grandparents, the huge struggle to live when times were really hard, communal life as it aught to be and above all a sense of being Scottish before all else

Now "the way is clear", time to throw off the shackles of a government which does not represent Scotland in any shape or form.