IMM wrote:

Nonsense. Towns can be even built up the side Ben Nevis, as they are in the
Alps. There is lots of open moorland that towns can be built on.

Sure - you can build there - but then you have to have jobs to support the
population, and services need to be provided. There WOULD be tons more
people in northwest Scotland, if they could find ways to make a living
there. That's one of the reasons I have family members scattered all over
the world - they found it difficult (if not impossible) to make a living in
the north.

Sheila
Upper Melness
Sutherland