i don't really recognise much of these comments about the english (or non-scots) living in scotland. i have moved over the border five times(i was born north of carlisle but south of the border) most recently i worked for 6 years at a homeless hostel in aberdeen and have been up many times for football, music and to visit our chldren and the highlands. i havn't come across any retired english or even middle class english though don't dispute there are many. i found in the north west (round ullapool) often english people were prominent in starting up or maintaining businesses with not much apparent resentment. in the organisation i worked for, at training days or union meetings local aberdeen voices were relatively quiet while the english people usually have plenty to say -when they could get the weegies to shut up! my attitude has to been to try to be open and friendly with everyone - no matter where they come from - perhaps because of my own cross-border confusion i really can't be bothered to care where people are from or what class they are. there are some very good people and some not so good but the vast majority of us are all just trying to get by without harming anyone. a major reason why i was (am) so enthusiastic about the Yes campaign was their definition of a scot as simply someone who lives there. it is inclusive and massively positive for everyone who lives in scotland or loves the country but wasn't born there. what a contrast to the increasingly deeply unpleasant and racist way that english politics is going. in scotland there is a tradition and a desire to help people in hard times -in england we blame them. The Yes campaign was more about this issue -and the ridiculous westminster show - than any anti-english or nationalist politics. i'm hoping this momentum keeps going and we can import it over the border - but i hae ma doots!