The Boars are back !!

[Jock Scot]

your true to a extent but can those locals children who are between 18-30 buy a house that some tourist has bought for the odd visit to hunt or stalk ...chances are no most tend to move to the city's to survive ,alot of the students in the unis and college`s are from the estates that you speak of unless its a estate job which many tend not to want they are kinda trapped in the central belt ,i know this from experience as every course Ive taken in any glasgow college 70% of the class dont come from central scotland at all even my own great grandfather had to move from kirkhill to coatbridge just to find a job my grandmother would speak of how much he missed Inverness-shire and its surrounding regions how he would always try visit when he could the only job that was on offer was estate work something he didn't want as his father and his fathers father did estate based work and he was adamant he wasn't going to follow there footsteps ended up he lied about his age to join the army to get away from the trappings of estate life im wondering is kirkhill farm anywhere near your home area jock? i know my great granddad was born on that very farm

No I do not know Kirkhill farm what part of Inverness-shire is it in? The local youngsters still cannot buy a house in the highlands, in truth most of them never could and probably that is how it is going to stay.It is a problem that haunts the rural community throughout the UK. I look at the 800 or so children going to the Lochaber High School in Fort William and wonder what local employment there will be for them and of course the answer is not very hopeful.It has always been the same, only these days the local "big estates" in these harsh economic times can help even less than they used to. What usually happens and this has gone on for at least 100 years, is that the cleaver ones leave the area to make their fortune and then retire back to the area.Generally speaking it is they, that are buying the properties up here and not the English.