These Scottish Islands Will PAY YOU £50,000 To Live There!
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2025
- These Scottish Islands will pay you £50,000 to move there! The Scottish Islands Bond scheme is offering individuals and families up to £50,000 to relocate to or stay in a number of Scottish Islands in an attempt to stem population decline in the island communities.
If you like the idea of moving to some remote scottish islands, and being compensated to do so, this video is for you - whether you are interesting in more remote off-grid living or homesteading, or joining a town with a few more people.
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Would you move to a scottish island if £50,000 was up for grabs? Any questions? Drop em below 👇
yes. 😁
Yes .
How to apply
Where we can apply? I have always loved Scotland, when I was younger I lived in Iona, so I would adore to go back
What island is in this program?
Unfortunately you're a bit out of date with that information. As the closing date to apply for any of them Island's was October 2021 .
The closing date on october 2021 was not the closing date to apply, it was the closing date to respond to the survey. BUT, this "Islands Bond" project is not longer available anyway. I called them and it's written on the gov website : "We recognise that there will be some disappointment that Islands Bonds will not be offered, but working to develop a more integrated and collaborative approach to supporting sustainable populations will facilitate greater opportunities for those looking to remain in, or move to our island communities." www.gov.scot/publications/islands-bond-consultation-scottish-government-response/
Oh man that sucks.
@@129kittykati Yeah for sure 😕
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I seen on Google the government didn't even end up doing it
Been on Holiday to Mull and was blown away by how stunningly beautiful it is. I've never felt more comfortable in my life as that I did on Mull. Its somewhere I feel I'm meant to be.
Are you there now?
Done and sold. I don't even need the 50k quid incentive, I'm 100% down to go.
Good luck!
How to apply?
@@riksinha5 no indians please
My family are from skye - my grandfather grew up there walking to school with no shoes, and the family moved to Manchester after falling out with the ferry boatman. I've been considering a return.
Get your families heritage back to their rights buddy! Claim every penny your family has paid in tax on everything they earned. Paid for and bought then got rinsed of in death taxes too.. it's all your families true right. The "crown" has stealth tax rinsed everyone. Mostly at the instant where grieving families are at our most vulnerable 🤬⚖️⚖️🙏⚖️⚖️
This would be about 55K in American dollars. Not a whole lot when considering moving costs, building a place or having to fix one up (more expensive on an island), length of time to search for another job, etc etc. And what about the internet? I hope the people who sign up for this are able to make it happen
most islands now have fast speed internet... but you are right costs on an island are almost doubled to doing soemthing on mainland..so if this scheme had gone ahead the amount offered wuld have done little...it certainly wouldnt buy you the land.
They do have internet but to be honest i would give anything if i wasnt introduced to the internet as a child.
If "internet" is one of the first things you're worried about...this clearly isn't for you. Also, 50,000 is plenty to a savvy person that doesn't need much to survive and be happy with the little things. This shit sounds dope, and if I wasn't leaving the states for Switzerland, I would jump on this in a heart beat.
I would get one mighty fine tent. Only £50k? Better than a Glasgow kiss.
@@DeeVoeNay Some need the Internet for work.
Strange how people weren’t given notice of this info before 2021 quite a significant date, yet info was withheld!?
If only I had been forty years younger. I would have jumped at the chance back then if I had known about it. To have made a complete break away from my control freak of a dad and brother. As for what I would have done for a living. Possible landscape artist. As well as being a small farmer.
The lack of sunshine is a deal breaker for a long term residence. Would love to visit these islands though.
Duh, and in summer when the Sun doesn't set?
@@fastasleepdream8522what are you talking about doesn't set???
@@beautyandthebudget3642 Good point. I think what the person meant was that, depending on how far North you are, during mid-summer the days can be up to 19 hours long for example, in Lerwick town on Shetland Islands, Scotland. As a comparison, Fairbanks in central Alaska USA, is further North so during mid-Summer day is 22 hours with just 2 hours of "night". (Obviously things are reversed in Winter. So one gets a 2 hour day and 22 hour night, in mid-winter in Fairbanks Alaska say.). Solar Panels, slanted at approx the correct angle, can still generate electricity during some cloudy weather, and during snowy weather especially when the Sky is clear and blue. Their efficiency increases with cold, as long as they have light falling on them. Scottish Island dwellers often use wind generators as they can expect power from them about 60% of the time, day and night, Winter and Summer.. With advances in more affordable Solar and Wind generators, folks who can afford to install such infrastructure straight off, can have a comfortable life even on remote islands. One wind generator will supply some heating and extra Winter lighting to even a large "family sized" greenhouse for example.
Such a shame it was scrapped,I’d have loved to move to the Isle of Arran,my Nan was evacuated there during ww2 and said the people there were fantastic,like a second family.
@Ralph Reilly Well that's a very disparaging view of the people of Arran. Unfortunately the island is being turned into little Britain with almost half the houses as second homes lying empty most of the year. Hopefully we'll see legislation similar to Norway's prevent this happening and the Islands can retain their young people.
@Ralph Reilly 👈 Hilariously ignorant and offensive. 'component'?? A country with its own laws, culture and history is not a *****ING COMPONENT! 'Development of the Empire? What freaking Empire?
Quite sad really.
The people there now aren't the ones then. There's about three times the population there was in the 60/70s. Mainly English retired civil servants and polis from what I can see.
When you go to the chip shop on Arran when they ask if you want salt on your haggis sausage and chips say NO thanks as they literally pour the stuff on ! I loved the Isle of Arran such a beautiful place . I spent 10 days there camping in 1993 .
It was? Do you know why it was scrapped?
You could put up a decent midgie net for £50k, thanks for putting this out.
Midges aren't in all places, and are easily avoided.
You cant avoid z scotish midg
The response sets out the decision that was taken as a result of the consultation and in person workshop feedback. The key findings from the analysis of the consultation suggested that island communities do not support the proposed Islands Bond and as a direct result of that feedback, the scheme will not be taken forward.
I would go as long as it has decent internet access
Damn, such things just keep getting more popular. I remember this starting with €1 houses of Sicily and other small Italian towns. There’s free-ish homes in Japan. Now I find out about Scotland.
8 billion people, and we have falling population numbers. What a ironic conundrum.
started way before sicily...
@@james2578 Don’t be a smartass. I noticed with Sicily first, and then I saw it ramping up through other countries. Nobody cares where it actually started, and I doubt anyone even knows.
What cringe it is to try to correct someone in a meaningless way and also using ellipses.
Those €1 houses in Italy weren't exactly 'move-in' ready either (atleast not the ones I saw).
It’s not necessarily lack of population than it is lack of opportunity
@@exwaifupillow Yeah if I moved to one of those places, how could I expect to make a living?
Nobody can become financially successful over night. They put in background work but we tend to see the finished part. Fear is a dangerous component, hindering us from taking bold steps we need in other to reach our goals.
How positively inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
There was a scheme to get people into crofting in the Shetland Islands but it was still too expensive for people to go and start up.
Depopulation has always been a problem on Scottish islands. Better pay, easier jobs, less hours, more social contact in mainland towns.
How good/bad is the internet there for real?
I don't know what I would do without Internet access, or poor Internet access. The Internet is a huge part of my life. Even for my dad, who is in his 70s, would struggle without his Internet. If his Internet is not working, I am the first person he complains to about it!!! 😂
@@Locutus we have superfast fibre to home internet so not a problem at all
@@udirt Its fibre in most villages now
What an opportunity that would be I'd absolutely love to do something like this
same here but on an island with warm hot climate all year round . scotish islands
look beautiful but in summer the millions of midgits and cold autums and very cold winters .
As of August 2022, Scotland abandoned the Island Bond program due to strong opposition from local residents. Oh well.
That's because they want there future generations to be able to buy those properties and not forgetting that these islanders have there own culture from the mainland of Scotland and the UK. And the fact that politicians don't listen to what they want that can help them instead they're trying to get new people from places like England who probably don't know there Norse Gael culture to buy the land's that rightfully belongs to the islanders.
Dude this is epic, thanks for sharing!
That was thoroughly interesting. Thanks for that.
What is the weather like you can only grow potatoes, trees and grass
My great grandparents were expelled from North Uist at the point of a bayonet. They were dumped on Cape Breton Island in October with nothing. Half of them died that first winter. A lottery is the best you got?
Thank you very much so much for this video. It was very instructive.
Wow, really interesting and nice concept. 👍
Back in the mid 1980s, I was a regular visitor to Arran, maybe 3 times each year. In 1987, I went to Arran to speciically look for a house to buy and move there. I was aged 26. indind a place was easy. However, when I spoke to locals o about my age, they all told me to think again. The main reason being that rom about October to April, the island is completely dead..
Update: as of the 19th Aug 2022, the Scottish government have decided to discontinue this initiative, stating that it is 'not what the communities need'.
www.gov.scot/publications/islands-bond-consultation-scottish-government-response/
Has Krankie spent all this money on referendum propaganda ?
Its better to build immigration centres on the island as it increases local population and reduces white supremacists, scotland aims to be majority non white by 2030
You just burst my bubble :(
You should pin this
Another failed SNP initiative, these idiots are ruining our country!
Oh wow, this is our family dream, to live off-grid or to start our own homestead. It's certainly worth looking in to. I'm viewing this video 5 months after it was uploaded, I wonder if I'm too late to explore the possibility?
Yes u are ended 2021
The scheme was scrapped in August 2022.
Write to the major, you don't need a UA-cam video to do it
@@udirt What are you talking about??
What can you do with 50k these days? Not much! Especially if you’re having to expensively ship goods over to an island.
They should just sell land cheap with planning on it for self building smallholders. 100 new incomers to such a vast area won't make the slightest difference and expecting people to waste their time writing detailed begging letters with such terrible odds of success is a typical govt piss take.
Thank you for sharing this video very intresting
Are you kidding me? I'd pay 50,000 to move to Scotland!
Might want to rethink that. We aren't as free here as people like to think we are.
@@titchwolffenris4077 can you Elaborate on this please?
@@jaketherunner6411
Scotland doesn't have independence, England rules it. But the person might've been referring to something else, I am not sure.
@@jaketherunner6411 you can get arrested in Scotland for a joke. That's not freedom.
@@titchwolffenris4077 you are right, I think Swiss Alps is the most free country in Europe but who knows for how long, Scotland almost won independence again with Yes.
I would have used it towards a small bed and breakfast for mainlanders. Promote staycations with boutique style hotel luxury.
Great information, grettings from Indonesia
wow!! I love the idea but I would struggle with the colder climate and longer darker nights in winter after living in the southwest of England.
.....don't forget you get longer daylight hours though in the summer 👍
Not me! Coming from Arizona I would embrace this opportunity completely!
@@zenkiea9663 I just moved back to England from AZ haha
stay where you are, it' a hoax.
Your place is Australia
I would move to Lewis, Harris, Barra or Skye tomorrow. But unfortunately, I am too old.
Am i too late? Since everyone around the world are now fighting for their rights and some sort of compensations how about give us back our land in the highlands
Absolutely wonderful brother thank you so much 😃🌱💚🙏✨🔥
Wow, I am getting a nurse practitioner certificate. I would move there without thinking twice.
nurses are very much in short supply
THE SCHEME COLLAPSED, as has the current SNP government, sorry people. I was also interested :(
That's all well and good but what's the cost of living , a loaf of bread , milk ,eggs , petrol and so on ? TAXES ? Is that deal open to foreigners ?
Is that Jim Fairfull's place at the 1:14 mark?
I moved to Ireland 20 years ago from the UK and now am on a very small offshore island in a rental. I was never offered that kind of money and am a disabled pensioner.
Is life easier in Ireland compared to UK?
BBC says the idea has been scrapped !
Island communities many of whom are incomers themselves are very hostile to new incomers so not surprised they complained and cancelled this scheme.
They did and its been cancelled
Nothing to do with hostility. There was a public consultation and it was decided that money would be better spent retaining young people on the islands (preventing further outmigration). It was never going to be a 'free for all' anyway, as the video suggests. It was to encourage people with a connection to the islands back.
Very hard to integrate with the islanders they hate incomers. Don’t get too excited
this has now been scrapped ,there is another route called crofting which may be worth a look
PAH!
Have you seen the price of crofts? LOL
Paradise ain't cheap my friend
@@Kingtrollface259they should only be available for islanders future generations especially those who wants to move back to the island of there birthplace, which these Scottish islands have there own culture from the mainland of Scotland and the UK which is being threatened by what's happening right now.
May grandma father last name is Callaway I am not for sure which part of Ireland that they were from but maybe one day I can figure it out and maybe I come there to visit it
We can help you with energy grants in rural areas of Scotland 🏴
90 islands and 100 hundred people get a place is that really going to secure the future of them islands
I just found out the closest pub is 36km and a boat-ride away. Not for me!
Freeedoooom!!! *william Wallace voice*
Wow this is amazing would love to live in Scotland off grid. They wouldn’t even have to pay me. Thanks for sharing just found your channel.
Did that for 5 years off Grid ⚡️ Spring H2O 170 inhabitants 🥳🏴😎
That sounds bloody amazing
Its not going ahead the idea was scrapped
Would be good if u didn’t have to have the money upfront first to build a house then apply for 50k
Just curious .... but what type of employment would be present? Say I got a plot and a cabin with my 50k, but I am still of working age and would need to work. I am willing to contribute if I come, but what work would be available to a man say, in his early 40s?
As an Englishman, Id happily go to Scotland to live for free, but youd have to pay me more than £50,000 to live in Wales..... apparently its full of Welsh people
I'm from Australia I would love to move to there
They don't like foreigners in uk
@@rdodamiangrin my brother lives in Italy but my son is a Mclellan anywhere near Kirkcudbright?
The proposed Islands Bond will not go ahead following responses to a consultation.
Hello good morning, I watch your video and I inspire come in Scotland, so please tell me about more what is this and who is come here and how
Can I bring my trailer house? It comes with a plastic pink flamingo
Couldn't come up with this scheme 40 years ago, before I got so acclimated to the tropics?
You should have told me 30 years ago I would have been there in a shot mum is from largs and dad from Glasgow I'm 62 now is it too late 😢 I would like to open a bait shop 😊
Brilliant!
I,d have loved to do that, buy some land start som allotments.self sufficient what a wY tn live
How’s the fishing between islands and mainland.?
Could I move there an be applicable for the bundle being born in London England?
@wererealatbeinwat. There should be a few ferry men boats so you don’t feel stuck or obliged …. Hear what your saying though .
How Do you contact The said people Who would pay A Person to live on the said island £50,000 ..whats the catch..I would love to move there ..
Hello does this work for foreigners, non eu citizens too?
I'll do it. Right now. Who do I talk to? I already have a passport, I'm ready to go.
What about a cannabis farm? I could employ loads of local people and make a significant contribution to the local economy. We could have cannabis healing retreats.
This money would be better put into housing to enable young people to stay or return to these places. Having been forced off the housing market by the sheer amount of holiday homes, rather than encouraging more incomers (the actual cause of the issue) plenty of people wish to stay in the areas of their birth, I myself would love to move home and be around aging family but it’s unlikely to be an option
what crop grow there?
do they let you set up a vacation rental?
so many questions unless you have a ton of money to just retire and bring your kids to breed there too.
Time to go back! 😂(I’m descended from Jacobites) been in the states for over 7 generations
On my way, Scotland has some of the best beauty in the world.
No this won't happen, at least not in my home island of Shetland. It's a stupid idea, it'll only lead to raised inflation in our local economy. Something which the modern day politician seems to do with ease. If they want to help increase the populations of our islands then they should be doing all they can to encourage young couples to be able to set up a home, live their lives in as little debt as possible and start their own children. Kinda like the old fashioned way. Fund affordable logistics in order to get goods into the islands to minimise increased costs. So many things that they should be doing to help islands survive but they don't. If want to move to an island then fund it yourself, like what everyone else has done up to now.
How's their Internet connection?
What are the conditions to qualify to get that bond?
That was such a good idea why did they stop it would have loved an opportunity like that. Me and my husband would have loved that im a medical professional, he is very businesses orientated and we have 2 children that are young and would have loved to make a home there. If u hear any more please let me know
It was cancelled is it’s not the answer for the Islands problems
There’s a lot a folk who where born and raised on the Islands but have moved to the mainland because there’s no Houses for sale and when houses do come up for sale they Usually sell as second holiday homes or Airbnb lets
Is there a link somewhere to apply for this or is it all still an up in the air idea ? Thanks
is it true that it has been scraped now ???
I'm 60 now but would have considered it 30 years ago.
How is it if hit by an earthquake or tsunami.
If you can find someplace without nasty winds, overwhelming cold, and a strong delivery service from UPS and Amazon, then we can talk. I am tired of being cold!
That's why I was taken to England the furthest point near Dover, at 15 , I miss the scotch pies and fish suppers out of the chippie, bridies and tattiescones .
Whoop whoop. Killing Gaelic. Love it.
This is why the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland islands to be independent from mainland Scotland and the UK to save there Norse Gael culture. Those who want to change and get rid of there Norse Gael culture can fuck off.
Can people from the European Mainland apply?
Does it come with a ghost, or a lake monster?
LOL
No .. 50000 is not enough to start with .. it needs at least 150000 to get the necessary stuff for a family to survive on an island .. you need schools, electricity, water, gas, heat, internet .. etc.
I was confused by images in intro, is one from Northern Spain?
How much is the taxes? Bet expensive
If one of the richest men on earth would build a city with schools, hospitals, many industries, shops, parks, and etc, I people definitely would. I never been to Scotland but it seems like a very habitable place with not so extreme climate.
Struth, Can Aussies move there and start a distillery?
Our population here on orkney is definitely not dwindling. so idk why the govt is trying to tackle "Population Decline"
they want to get rid of your cultures by repopulating the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland islands with wealthy people from different countries who don't about your cultures ever since the clearance started.
I am here looking for humourous footage to poke fun at Boxers with ! Perhaps some jousting grouse !
Thank you, do you have more info how we can apply ?
Obviously there's a catch or was.
Iwant to live this place how to i can apply for that?
How about paying my chronically ill family member already living on the Orkney Islands enough to be able to eat and pay for electric during the pandemic! :(