 |  | | | Living and working in the Outer Hebrides: | There are 2 messages in this section. |
Iain F MacMillan from Benbecula. Posted 3 Nov 2004.
The Outer Hebrides is a magnificent magical place to grow up, even to bring up your own children. It is near impossible to work here, wages are next to nothing, and what you do earn is far too easy to spend, with next to nothing to show for it. It costs an unbelievable but forcibly acceptable fortune to come and go.
The people at the top have been blinded by greed, if they kept workers happy, the Island would have had a new and better potential. This is a land full of magic for all, but man can't live of magic.This is now a place for the old to rest, a place for memories to live as we did as children. | | |
|  | Maurice Mallon from Markam, Ontario, Canada. Posted 27 May 2005.
Ian, I was really saddened to read your note about life on the islands of Scotland.
Especialy when the Scottish mainland is enjoying an economic recovery.
I know that uprooting and moving is a young mans game. I was 24 with no house nor furniture when my young wife and I moved to Canada in 1969.
It was difficult for us with no family or friends in our new land.
Would it be possible for you go over the mainland, get a job and move the family after you get yourself established?
Maybe, I'm being unrealistic. I've done it, but my dear wife and I had no financial roots, only huge family roots.
Interesting thing about our family roots in Scotland. They are stronger today than they ever were.
My wife phones or e-mails her sisters every day. We and they have visited almost every year.
My big Canadian son works in London and owns a house in Glasgow. He visits the Paisley family about once a month to play golf and have a few pints with his uncles and cousins. They are very close.
So my point is, moving, does not mean losing your friends and family.
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