(June 24, 2016 at 11:51 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Quite high for Scotland, unlikely for Northern Ireland and very unlikely for Wales at the moment. And the likelihood of a civil war that I joked about earlier is low, so it's either I swallow my pride and be totally Scottish or move when the referendum comes.
I don't mean this as an insult but I think you'll do well in England.
The thing is that we can't help where we are born and raised. And just because you have been raised to have the same cultural values as your peers doesn't mean to say that you necessarily will do so. This is after all why atheist forums are populated mainly by Americans throwing off the shackles of their Christian upbringing.
So for a lot of people, they actually do better if they move to another country that is in keeping with their values and needs. For me, born and raised in the south-east of England, that turned out to be Scotland. I need to be able to get to the wilds, and be surrounded by people who like to do mad things for the sake of it. It's also why I love Germany. I'm not a city person. I don't like being hemmed in. I like to live in a fair society and hate the consumerist rat race. Some Scots do very well in London for example and as far I'm concerned they're Londoners who happened to be born in Scotland.
We each need to be the person we are, not an accident of birth. I think that we can both agree on that.
