Fugitive1979 wrote:No, it's what this map tells me. If it's suitable for agriculture, then it's also suitable for building houses on. However, we need that farmland - even more so, if Mr Salmond gets his way. You could maybe get away with a little urban expansion, along the M8 corridor; Though, that area is full of old mine workings, and other possibly unsuitable brownfield areas.
if the Arabs and the Chinese can turn sea into land then the similarly canny Albannach can turn brown field sites into something that is HABITABLE.
another thing, maps represent a reality, not necessarily THE reality. Bit like when you and your sassanach pals used to draw maps that made Britain bigger than france and Africa smaller than Europe ha ha
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There are vast, empty areas for good reason. Even those which you claim to be habitable.
Also, the old mine workings aren't as easy to deal with, as you think.
Sheriffhall roundabout is one of Scotland's busiest, and jams all day, every day. Yet they won't grade-separate it, because of old mine workings.
So they certainly won't attempt to build any sort of new town in those areas.
raggatwin wrote:well, people DID live then on what you referred as unliveable. True or false?
You sound like a Campbell....
Yes, in pokey wee crofts, in near-squalid conditions. Much like most of the rest of the British population, back then. It's not the place for building a town, with a population in the 10's-of-thousands, even today.
I don't understand why all these unemployed refugees come to London anyway. If I was going to be an unemployed refugee I'd far rather go to Scotland; a better quality of life and when your ten kids go to university, they won't have to pay tuition fees either.
yeah but it seems common knowledge that the old guard of immigrants worked their butts off and was dead set on assimilating to to the new culture and most likely was insulted and had too much pride for handouts. this new crop however smells a sucker and is going to suckle at the tit.
