I would love to consider moving there from the US. Doing it alone, at age >70 (although healthy and energetic)--trying to make friends and to learn to fit into the culture--it seems impractical if not downright stupid. The thought however is lovely.
Scots are amazingly tolerant of newbies as it happens - and I can say this as an incomer, having moved here 35 years ago from England: that said, any incomer is regarded as neutral and harmless unless proven otherwise.
Read this today: "Typically in Scotland, England and Wales there are between 130 and 150 people in prison per 100,000 population - a rate surpassed in Europe by only a handful of countries such as Latvia and Lithuania. The USA has more than 1.8 million people behind bars, the biggest prison population in the world, representing more than 500 inmates per 100,000 population.
Criminologists say there's little linkage between crime levels and incarceration rates - the differences seem to be largely driven by policy and cultural expectations about how society should respond to crime." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgx0j7r7wro
Well, I’ll say this: your mountains are short, your beer variety is a little lacking, and from my one experience with this working-class Glaswegian welder friend of mine, I can’t understand a bloody word you say. Other than that, I’ll give you the win.
I was a bit selective with my choice of comparisons: I do know that your longest river is the Mississippi, even though I find it hard to spell, and that it lacks the romance of the much shorter Scottish salmon rivers like the Spey, Dee and the Forth, and that you probably have more millionaires than we do, pro rata., but rather less whisky distilleries.
But we do have J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter, and when it comes to literature and popular culture, what on earth happened to the once supreme USA, which seems to have become the culturally infected Disney and Marvel Comics appendix of the world ?
Not a bit surprising! They probably pay higher taxes though for the higher quality of life. You get what you pay for, I think it's worth it.
I would love to consider moving there from the US. Doing it alone, at age >70 (although healthy and energetic)--trying to make friends and to learn to fit into the culture--it seems impractical if not downright stupid. The thought however is lovely.
Scots are amazingly tolerant of newbies as it happens - and I can say this as an incomer, having moved here 35 years ago from England: that said, any incomer is regarded as neutral and harmless unless proven otherwise.
I take this to heart and to my thoughts. Thank you for your uplifting reply.
Read this today: "Typically in Scotland, England and Wales there are between 130 and 150 people in prison per 100,000 population - a rate surpassed in Europe by only a handful of countries such as Latvia and Lithuania. The USA has more than 1.8 million people behind bars, the biggest prison population in the world, representing more than 500 inmates per 100,000 population.
Criminologists say there's little linkage between crime levels and incarceration rates - the differences seem to be largely driven by policy and cultural expectations about how society should respond to crime." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgx0j7r7wro
Well, I’ll say this: your mountains are short, your beer variety is a little lacking, and from my one experience with this working-class Glaswegian welder friend of mine, I can’t understand a bloody word you say. Other than that, I’ll give you the win.
I was a bit selective with my choice of comparisons: I do know that your longest river is the Mississippi, even though I find it hard to spell, and that it lacks the romance of the much shorter Scottish salmon rivers like the Spey, Dee and the Forth, and that you probably have more millionaires than we do, pro rata., but rather less whisky distilleries.
But we do have J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter, and when it comes to literature and popular culture, what on earth happened to the once supreme USA, which seems to have become the culturally infected Disney and Marvel Comics appendix of the world ?
As for beer, we have improved a lot - and I will consider a post on beer another day.
You had to bring up whisky didn’t you? Fine, you win.