Where to Live?
Dec 3rd 2016, 2:45 pm
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Dec 3rd 2016, 2:49 pm
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Re: Where to Live?
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:04 pm
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I'd take the North American deep freezing 'brisk' lots of snow cold in the winter with blue sky & sun any day over what you'd find in Scotland that could be depressing at times.
Maybe if you are going for a visit that it'd be best to see Bute at its worst in December to end February
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:13 pm
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Most of the non-Scots on Bute are from England. Not sure of figure. Most are quite well integrated.
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:17 pm
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Is Bute population still on a decline, stable or increasing over the past 5 or so years?
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:20 pm
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Census is every 10 years so it is hard to say. I suspect it is declining. Your question about water charge displays a woeful lack of knowledge about how we do things here. In Scotland water and sewerage chargres are paid with council tax. Domestic water is not metered.
For someone who has never been here you have rather ngative opinuions of Scotkland !
Census is every 10 years so it is hard to say. I suspect it is declining. Your question about water charge displays a woeful lack of knowledge about how we do things here. In Scotland water and sewerage chargres are paid with council tax. Domestic water is not metered.
For someone who has never been here you have rather ngative opinuions of Scotkland !
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Dec 3rd 2016, 3:25 pm
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the difference being that you'd never see blue sky or the sun, just that its mainly overcast, cloudy & miserable climate for most of the year.
I'd take the North American deep freezing 'brisk' lots of snow cold in the winter with blue sky & sun any day over what you'd find in Scotland that could be depressing at times.
Maybe if you are going for a visit that it'd be best to see Bute at its worst in December to end February
I'd take the North American deep freezing 'brisk' lots of snow cold in the winter with blue sky & sun any day over what you'd find in Scotland that could be depressing at times.
Maybe if you are going for a visit that it'd be best to see Bute at its worst in December to end February
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:27 pm
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Census is every 10 years so it is hard to say. I suspect it is declining. Your question about water charge displays a woeful lack of knowledge about how we do things here. In Scotland water and sewerage cgargres are paid with council tax.
For someone who has never been here you have rather ngative opinuions of Scotkland !
Census is every 10 years so it is hard to say. I suspect it is declining. Your question about water charge displays a woeful lack of knowledge about how we do things here. In Scotland water and sewerage cgargres are paid with council tax.
For someone who has never been here you have rather ngative opinuions of Scotkland !
https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/info/...rgyll-and-bute
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:30 pm
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Visit and judge for yourselves. Life is not something that happens in cyberspace.
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:38 pm
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Dec 3rd 2016, 3:42 pm
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Ask the Marquess. He lived here for a long time - until he decided to be a tax exile. It seems that he has decided that Geneva is better for members of the British aristocracy.
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:43 pm
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Dec 3rd 2016, 3:49 pm
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How does one become tax exile?
Dec 3rd 2016, 3:57 pm
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Ask the Marquess. My friends who actually work for a living do not know the answer to your question.