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I've got family in Yorkshire and Essex, they are still family, they stay in touch.

I've got friends in Assynt who it takes longer for them to get to Edinburgh than it does to get to Birmingham from Edinburgh. They are still my friends and I see them 4 or 5 times a year.

I know someone who has moved from Sussex to Fife, where she could afford a 3 bedroom house instead of the one bedroom flat she was in.

In Scotland the average salary is £29,998, and you pay 1% less tax in Scotland between £12.5k and £14.5k, the same between £14.5k and £25k you would only pay more tax on earnings above £25k, so 1% above England on only £5k.

Happy to explain

That's not explanation, that's anecdotal evidence.

I'm not arguing that your family or friends stop being so when they/you move further away. Technology means you can speak to them round the clock - I still consider it moving away from them though and think it's a reasonable deterrent. Of course different people will have different ideas of how far away becomes "moving away" in a sense that it would impact them.

I could get a 5-storey, 10 bed guest house in Scarborough for the price of a 3 bed house in Edinburgh.

Numbers for average earnings may have moved a little, but I think the general premise was you pay more tax here if you earn over the average wage and pay less tax if you earn less than that. Do you think it's lower earners in England that are the ardent pro-EU supports willing to move?