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Not as densely populated as the central belt but yes, people do live all over Scotland in villages and towns dotted all over the place 😊🏴
Aye, I spent 20 years of my youth living in the red part.
Yes these "this area is devoid of all humanity" video titles are lies. What is true is there are people in central Spain, across most of Australia, the "empty" bits of Britain and Canada etc. Lazy, clickbait title content makers believe or say, people who live in small or scattered communities don't count....only city people count as humans to them.
The stadium joke is that Manchester City bought their success artificially with 'oil money' from their rich new Abu Dhabi owners
The rock formation you were interested in is the Isle of Staffa, and the hexagonal columns are volcanic basalt formed millions of years ago. Basalt is the rock formed on or near the surface by a volcanic eruption, and cools quickly to form small crystals, while granite cools more slowly deeper down, and has time to form much larger crystals...
It's the location of Fingal’s Cave, which inspired Mendelssohn to compose his Hebrides Overture.
It's now a National Nature Reserve, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland.
Perhaps if the rich lairds had not engaged in Highland Clearances it would be a different story. Ireland is empty for similar reasons, forced mass emigration.
There are plenty of islands around Scotland like St Kilda and even some of the inner Hebrides that were evacuated voluntarily as life was just too harsh for young generations to stay.
I don't suppose subsistence farming would be an attractive proposition to most people today.
@@anthonyferris8912 Now you're just being logical.
The landscape couldn’t sustain the people. You think once industrialisation really kicked off they wouldn’t have migrated to the cities and overseas anyway? Why would they want to stay in their windswept damp villages breeding with the same few families?
@@nicolad8822 Your argument that industrialization would have inevitably led to migration overlooks the forced and violent nature of the Highland Clearances and what happend in Ireland. These clearances were not economic transitions but violations of human rights, involving forced evictions and the destruction of our cultural heritage. It ignores what was imposed on individuals, stripping them of their livelihoods, communities and culture without compensation or choice. Suggesting that "they would have left anyway" is disgusting behaviour, these populations were forcibly displaced. You can't say anything about the possible survival and adaptation of these communities under different circumstances because they weren't given that chance. It shouldn't be viewed as just an inevitable economic shift, these are deliberate actions that had lasting impacts on Scotland and Ireland.
Besides, I'd rather live in some damp, windswept village starving than whatever this mess is we currently live in. Who cares about comfort, cheap food and entertainment? It's pathetic. England and Scotland won't even exist in 50 years at this rate. At least you got your cheap takeaways though, right?
I get the feeling that the maker of the video on Scotland is one of those who's decided to make his thumbnails as controversial as possible and to say things in his videos that will rile people so that they will make lots of comments on his videos.
He does eventually mention the Highland clearances towards the end of the video but, mentions it's so briefly I wouldn't be surprised if you missed it.
The main thing I did appreciate was his highlighting the situation re Flamingo Land and preventing them building near Loch Lomond.
I took a wee boat from the isle of Iona to the isle of Staffa (basalt rock column island you mentioned in the video.) It's the only time I've ever touched a dolphin. We had 38 dolphins following our streamline. They were right next to the boat and all I had to do was stick out my arm and stroke them. This is still one of my favourite memories. Sunny skies, crystal clear water, surrounded by dolphins. It was perfect and beautiful.
I did the same last year - on our trip we seen 2 or 3 Basking Sharks. The captain said he had not seen them for 5 years so we all felt very lucky. A great wee island to explore.
@@stubbsieshorse327 Amazing! I saw basking sharks, sailing an old ship close to Rum. This was back in 2009, when I was in school and I've never seen a basking shark again since.
I live on The Firth of Forth and as well as whales of various types we also get Basking Sharks making the odd appearance. By the time I hear about it though they are usually gone - still hoping that one day I will catch them.@@lolsaXx
Hi connor , the Highlands are just something else you can feel the history oozing from the landscape . Beautiful place
Um Dundee and Aberdeen have words to say about this....Dundee being where "grand thief auto" came from and Aberdeen being where the useful part of the UK oil interindustry live...you know the ones that get it out of the ground.
John Muir came from Dunbar, on the south east coast of Scotland. His mission to protect the wild places of America is echoed in our (1983 Scottish charity desire to preserve wild places around the globe.) There is more to life than money.
The map at the start is inaccurate in the extreme. Living and travelling is not difficult as the video commentary would have you believe, I live there so I think I should know. The basalt island you saw is Staffa, the formation of the columns were created when magma was extruded from the sea to form the island. I have a strong feeling that the commentator is not Scottish as some of the items featured is miss pronounced. Nice visuals, but much in the comments are to be taken with a pinch of salt!
The commentator is definitely not Scottish. He should also have said that the reason there are many older people in the Highlands is that a lot of people from the south of England sell up their homes for a huge profit, move to Scotland and make higher bids for housing than the locals can afford, thus pushing young families out of the area they grew up in.
I grew up in the Highlands near the Cairngorms but now live in Stirling. So only about 90 miles south (about 130 by road) but people think I'm joking when I say I moved for the warm weather. Its true though as anyone from my home area can attest it gets a litle chill whereas Stirling is much more temperate.
Hi Connor, love your videos and hope you visit Scotland some day. I live in the area that the proposed theme park was supposed to be constructed, it was never going to be a theme park, it was a holiday park with a hotel , holiday lodges with an indoor waterpark and entertainment area. The media kept referring to itvas a theme park because the company wanting to build operates a theme park and zoo and holiday park in England. Where they wanted to construct this was right on the shores of loch lomond that
would have seen some destruction to to woodland around the site. I didnt want to see the propasal go ahead but it also annoys me when the development is referred to as a theme park when that never was planned in the first place.
Maybe the Highland and Lowland clearances have alot to answer for.
or maybe not.
Grand video big man.
All the best to you and yours.
From yer wee pal fa Glasgow, Scotland.
The Highlands are beautiful and definitely worth visiting, in decent weather! I used to work up there regularly when we still had more than one major RAF station north of the border.
Flamingo Land is a tramps theme park. If you imagine Disney world on one side of the scale and a temporary fairground on the other side , Flamingo Land is much closer to the temporary fairground than it is Disney world. My girlfriend developed a fear of flying for about a 2 year period some time ago and we drove to Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire from Glasgow and it was rotten. I wasn't expecting Disney or Universal Orlando but it was awful.
4.20 that's Staffa. Mendehlson wrote Hebridean overture after visiting
Fingal’s Cave and The Giants Causeway are formed from the same lava flow, they are 82 miles apart. The eruption happened as the Atlantic Ocean was widening.
The Top and bottom of the flow cooled more rapidly than the middle, and the middle cooled to form the hexagonal columnar jointing we see. You can see this at Fingals cave, at Giants Causeway the top layer of lava had eroded away.
Fun fact: The red parts used to be more populated. Then the people in the north were turfed out so the landowners could cover the place in sheep. And a lot of the people in the south were encouraged to move over to Ireland by King James VI/I and subdue/replace the native Catholics.
About half a million Irish settled in the West of Scotland in the 19th century so that isn't the reason but somehow this gets ignored.
@@auldfouter8661 Not just in the West, Dundee and Edinburgh had a huge amount of Irish immigrants as well.
@@alicemilne1444 The Irish incomers after 1922 had full voting rights and pension rights in the UK .
@@auldfouter8661 What does that have to do with the 19th century?
That picture of Scotland & stat is a blatant & dumb lie. My family is from one of the most remote of those red patches. Hebrean's.
Do you mean Hebrides?
The Hebrides perchance? As the video showed , the population there has halved in 100 years.
I'm from Loch Lomond. Flamingo land is an English theme park/resort who want to expand and build a site on the banks of the Loch. They can ram it
When he spoke about turning Scotland into American tourist attractions, he was joking.
Throughout the UK in general all but a handful of people want to preserve things as they are.
Google the opposition to Trump’s (yes that one) golf course and the anger at its effect on the landscape and wildlife.
Glasgow is pronounced glaz-go. Edinburgh is Ed-in-bruh.
I grew up in a little fishing village in the North West of Scotland called Lochinver. I and my friends were never short of things to do.
Aberdeenshire girl here 🫶 30mins drive from Aberdeen and love my village wouldn’t want to live anywhere else except my beautiful country Scotland.
Highland lass here - and there's no escape from MacDonalds or KFC even here!
0:35 As an American who lives in one of the red areas shown on that map (along with literally hundreds of thousands of others) I don't know if I have the energy to entertain the rest of this video tbh.
The first red flag (pun intended) was the thumbnail. The second red flag, was listening to any valid information about Scotland from someone with an English accent. I'm only 5min in and the number of inaccuracies are too numerous to list out.
We like it that way. Hello from Edinburgh.
Dumfries and Galloway is the border region next to Cumbria and there are lots of large towns, small towns most known is Lockerbie for the worst terrorist attack in the uk, where I'm from.
Yes the central belt has a large population but past that like Dumfries and Galloway, there are lots and lots of villages and towns. Just look at Google maps. Those regions are inhabited just no big cities, only towns.
Just look at that amazing landscape
My mums family is from Fife. My mum was brought up in the Hamilton area and lived there until the early 70s when she moved down to Leicestershire. The rest of her family followed her soon after. (her mum, stepdad, and her six younger siblings ) The extended family stayed in Scotland ( one moved to Hawaii to be with distant relatives ) on the mainland, and one lived on the Orkney islands. Sadly, all my grandparents' siblings have passed away, but we still have cousins and second cousins in fife. I love Scotland and would love to relocate up there when my husband and I retire in 30 years time.
People mostly live in the central belt (and why the north of Scotland remains relatively unpopulated) because of geography.
Its hard building houses and factories on mountains and in narrow glens
Why know one lives in the red parts of Scotland? Emm thought i would mention that I live in apart of the red zone and we have 2 medium size cities Inverness the capital off the highland and Aberdeen the capital of Grampian, plus we have 2 airports one in inverness (Dalcross) and one in Aberdeen which is an international airport, and the area I live in has the speyside whiskey trail and live within 5 miles of an RAF base and Army Barrocks. We also have some of the most beautiful coast lines. Come visit some time.
Ww do have Palm trees. My father was brought up in the Highlands and i lived in thr Highlands to a great village called Comrie, it had 2 donations of £500,000 for amazing reasons . My familysplit up in 1780 one went to Australia one to Canada and my family went to the Falklands.
In 1801 Scotland had 18 % of the population of the Uk. We he gradually been depopulated over 300 years in order that the Uk can extract our resources and divert the south.
He neglect to mention why so many people actually live in the central belt, which would in turn make there be less overall people in the North, and thats the industry that was there, Lanarakshire in particular where Im from had a famous mining industry and Motherwell was the heart of Scottish Steel. Although (and somewhat controversially) this is mostly gone, it is a reason why there are so many more towns in that belt from Ayrshire to East Lothian.
Mills in Lanarkshire too. It was Jute Mills in Dundee, my family there came from further north originally, and many moved on afterwards.
@@nicolad8822 Aye wanted to list more but didnt want to get it wrong, Im sure the clothing industry was big in Lanarkshire or at least somewhere else in the central region. thanks for the insight.
Aberdeen - one of the lowest UNemployment rates.
Scotland population density is 60 people per km2, USA is 35.
This video was so stupid. Most people in the Scottish highlands can get a Tesco or Asda food delivery and live near shops and aren’t all self sufficient 😂
Great place to visit.
Scotland does have palm trees, because of the Gulf Stream - in Inverewe in the far north-west of Scotland, and in the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde. However, if you want to swim in the sea, you will probably need a very thick wet-suit.
Yep and there are palm trees on Islay.
I stay in Ardrossan on the west coast of Scotland and palm trees are pretty common in gardens, due to the Gulf Stream.
1:44 the Manchester City football club as well as the Etihad stadium were bought and are now owned by the UAE, the United Arab Emirates. Etihad refers to Etihad Airways which is a flag carrier of the UAE. In other words, this stadium and football club are bought and financed with oil money from the middle east.
42% of the entire US contains only 1% of its population. Yes Scotland has a lower population- around 5.5 million (the number in the video is old) . And it only covers about 30,000 square miles. But that’s a population density of about 183 people per square mile….whereas the US (including Hawaii and Alaska) is about 3,810,000 square miles with a population of 33190000 people, which is a density of 87 people per square mile. So 🤔🤷😂
00:29 Edin-borough??? Edinburgh. Eh-din-bruh. Edinburgh. Bruh as in huh! Not borough as in thorough.
00:33 Glas-Gowww? Glasgow. Glaz-go. Glasgow.
You should do a video about staffa and fingals cave, there's a tale linked to the giants causeway (no spoilers folks, he likes to learn)
I live in the red zone. Can confirm I'm alive.
“what is that???” made me laugh 😂
Most of the Population lives in the large towns and Cities. that is not to say that the rest is empty, There are Island that are now uninhabited, due to them former Populations being evacuated. Scotland's Population would more than likely be larger if it wasn't for Land Clearances and those that have chosen to move to other parts of the UK. The Geography of the Country also plays its part in how the population is spread out within the Country. The North of England near the Border is somewhat the same in how it is populated, the same with Wales and no doubt Ireland also.
What would the population look like if those that emigrated to other parts of the world, if their surviving relative all came back to Scotland, to fill the places that was once their families place of Birth. Now that would be interesting to see how that would change the population. You would still have the population in similar areas, but the populations would be greater in the more remote parts than it is now, but by how much that would be interesting to find out. As there will be several generations that have goon on to have their own families large and small. We know that there were a lot that emigrated to Australia, Canada and the States, but have no idea of how large that population is. we do know that they are proud of their Heritage and rightfully so. Even if how they came to be where that ae was not always of their ancestors choosing.
The highlands clearance is the reason Scotland is so sparsely populated today, had that not happened Scotland would be an overpopulated toilet just like England.
this is not really true, mass emigration out of scotland was occurring from both the lowlands and the highlands for decades if not centuries before and after the clearances happened for a number of different reasons. far more emigrated as a whole out of the lowlands than the highlands overall.
Cumbrian and Northumberland border Scotland.
My city of Carlisle is 9 miles south of the border.
Flamingo Land is a Theme Park in Malton, Yorkshire
Thanks for your advice regarding an increased American input... 😂❤
My Mum lives in a red bit, there are people there, just not many.
Looking forward to After Life Episode 2 😌
Yes there’s probably about 7 million in Scotland, yet there approx 70 to 80 million in England
^. ^ It's hilarious how freaked out you are! Im from the North East coast near Inverness. Scotland {Alba} ........It can be a harsh environment especially in the winter but Im glad that it's underpopulated..........Foxy Love fae Scotland VVxx
The main reason why the Highlands have a low population beside the Highland clearances is that the central belt was more industrialised.
Another reason is the Scottish Midgie.
Look up the Highland clearances..
The rich and powerful owned most of the land especially royalty, in the UK, and across the world .
Only about 8% of the UK population live in Scotland.
Nice to have a reaction video with a normal person rather than some loud obnoxious goof who can’t stop stopping the video to be loud and obnoxious
The problem I find in the highlands nowadays is the excessive tourism. It can be too much for the wilderness and our tiny roads. Too many cars and vehicles too big for the road. Crazy people diving their expensive fancy cars insanely fast around the NC500 as quick as they can. Such a high percentage of the houses now are holiday cottages, air bnbs and 2nd or 3rd homes for rich people. I was born on the north west highlands near Gailrloch.
I am one of those few that actually live in the highlands in inverness, and the video is pretty accurate, absolutely nothing to do unless your a hiker haha
That's not entirely true, vast areas have been cleared of native woodland and planted with rows of ugly fir trees for profit.
Scotland like scadanavia is a frontier country... Its harsh.
FFS it's NOT EMPTY, it's bloody covered in Mountains and moorland, you want them to live in shacks on mountaintops or in bogs??
The majority of the central belt is a shit hole anyway. So glad I live in a red area.
This came across as put together by one of those channels that throw together factoids in a way that paints an inaccurate picture of the subject.
I’m surprised Greater Manchester is in the top 10, let alone top 5 for places to live in the UK. So many nasty places there.
04:14 - Connor has a Mendelssohn moment...
8:28... er... that's my home town. And I don't live Scotland!
I live in the red bit!
Nobody??? Yeah... Nah... they may not have cities but villages???
92%of the UK is empty of humans habitation.
Fantasy land mate , Scotland like any other country ,yes we have beautiful landscape s , but you being sold a dream ,
7:55 Snowdonia is in Wales not Scotland
The video you are watching is full of mis information peppered with the occasional fact I’m afraid. There are even photos of the mainland passed off as the Islands (the beach photos are real though) Mind you, I don’t exist as I am also in one of the apparent ‘uninhabited’ areas! It even calls LOCH lLomond a lake! Lol. I’m certain there are a lot more accurate videos about Scotland. Better still, if you get the chance come and visit us, you will be welcome. Us natives don’t bite (well except the midgies lol)
Thank goodness, Mother Nature sees to it that the entire surface of this (once) bautiful Planet cannot be completely covered by its most destructive predator, i.e, mankind!
People do live in the red parts it’s just it’s not as densely populated like other parts of Scotland.
94 per cent empty in red. Rubbish. I also live in red area. Red area includes big towns/ cities such as Inverness, Aberdeen Thurso, Wick and many more. So to say no one lives in red zone is rubbish.
LMAO! What a country! Independence for Scotland! rofl.
haha that reaction to some American saving the islands is pretty much the same instant reaction we probably would do and say too lol. Spot on. Just look at trump and the bloody golf course. What was he thinking. Scots do not fack about
Its Glaz_Go, not Glass Cow
Interesting.
Etihad stadium is Manchester city's football ground owned by Saudi oil tycoons hence the joke oil capital of Europe 😂
what muppet done this there are thousands of towns and villages all over the red parts
What utter bull💩plenty people I’ve in the red areas
We have ferry to northern Ireland from here , you learning garbage mate
Ah treacherous Scotland
You watching garbage,yes Scotland highliands nice , but you being told rubbish
It's empty unless you want to live on a 60/70° angle lol
This video is wrong
The link is Etihad Stadium is in Dubai which is where loads of oil baron's live .
Whit? It's in Manchester.
Yeah it's in Manchester. It's it's owners are Oil barons as such. Lol it's in Dubai >.
With a name like Etihad you would automatically think that a Sheik from Abu Dubai own it not Manchester City Council, Councils normally can't afford to pay to fix pot holes in the roads or anything else.
I live in the red zone on top.
This video you are reacting to makes me quite angry with its content free narration that, just seems to be click bait, is very condescending towards the nearly a million of us who live in the red area.
And shows the complete lack of understanding of the subjects it skirts throughout in the video.
The west is warm and wet, the east is dry and cold.
Of course people live in the red lol
Love from Liverpool UK ♡
Now we know why all the Ulster-Scots settled in the Appellations 🏴🤚🏽
because they were controlee freaks ?
Appalachians?
@@nicolad8822 Appellations!
@@Rydonattelo🙄
Plz tell me you don't watch CNN MSNBC' , you a nice guy , love your videos , but America is a joke
1700-1900 the English killed or exiled as many of the Scots they could rid themselves of. That is how my Scottish ancestors got to the Colonies.
The lowland Scots clearances were voluntary and nothing to do with the English.
Who sold you that fantasy? 😂
@@johnfinister5011 My British/Irish ancestors who fought on all sides ;-)
@@williambranch4283Go on then tell us about killing and exiling in the 1880s for example?
@@nicolad8822 "The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal [ˈfuət̪ɪçən nəŋ ˈɡɛː.əl̪ˠ], the "eviction of the Gaels ") were the forced evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860." ... Google is your friend. Talking about the 1880s is bait and switch. Do you catch much Atlantic salmon that way ;-) but continued until Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886, when crofters got a few of their rights back.
Scotland is too cold and rains much throughout the year ..Im from Scotland born and raised and just couple young silly people looking forto play games with their idiotic anwsers in sying it doesnt rain tht mush in Scotland ..Its all it does most time is rain and snow at times in Winter as has been already and due again soon ..Its coldest part of UK and inc Ireland . Ive been around them all ..Yes we get summer and if we get a week or two summers weather in a year then were happy .
Not really.
That is a blatant lie. I am Scottish and it doesn't rain that much. We got our hot dry summers. Even in the highlands it can still get warm
@@AnubisX1 Indeed, but it suits some to pretend that Scotland is a benighted, rain-soaked, near-empty wilderness.
I was born and raised in lockerbie, l have lived in Edinburgh, Fort William, and the Isle of arran. And I can tell you it doesn't rain all the time, we get more than a week of dry weather, stop lying! We have had whole summers of and autumns of dry good weather in my 40+ years living in scotland.