SNP slammed for economic mismanagement...

^^ Imagine attacking something without even reading it.

You are top of the class for ignoring info. And as for intelligent debate? Don't get me started on your complete lack of that facet.

You thought you were onto a winner but you didn't check his background. You should have been alerted by the article appearing in the Unionist Herald - you didn't deny it was published in that rag. 

That convoluted bunkem contains the sort of desperate retort favoured by earlier SNP devotees on this forum. It is nonsense and the fact that you can't see that explains why your views are so one sided. In general devolution in Scotland and Wales is a disaster, both countries have voted in complete incompetents that would struggle with the 11 plus and allowed them to manage billions of pounds of budget, this spectacular folly results in huge deficits which have to be filled by Westminster.
The good thing about raising tax thresholds to sky high levels in Scotland is that these deficits will now have to be funded by those who voted these morons into power. I am glad that you are happy to do so.

Well it would be £291k if you were insane enough to believe figures including london mean anything. Excluding london that average price is rather lower

It is hard to disagree with this high earner’s thinking. Who in their right mind would want to give up on all of those benefits (and more) by moving to England or through any other action if they could avoid it?

So, how do we continue to enjoy these benefits? Well, when it comes to property prices, we have to make a choice. Property prices reflect the relationship between supply and demand for property. Demand (and therefore prices) in England is much higher than in Scotland due to supply failing to keep apace with the seemingly inexorable growth of the population of England - due, in turn, primarily to immigration. So, if we want to continue to benefit from relatively low property prices in Scotland, we need to ensure that demand does not outstrip supply anymore than it does now, otherwise property prices will rise. Realistically, there is not much potential for the supply side to exceed demand anytime soon so that would mean keeping the lid on demand. Should we therefore be discouraging people from moving to Scotland and perhaps even try to persuade more of our population (inevitably our more ambitious and brightest) to move away, and accept the economic and fiscal implications that this would bring given the ageing demographic profile of our citizenry, just to keep our property prices down - or do we continue to value immigration, to try to encourage people to come to Scotland, and accept the increase in property prices and the housing and infrastructure crisis that would inevitably accompany this as a price worth paying if we ever do manage to attract meaningful amounts of people to move here?

As for most (if not all) of the other benefits of living in Scotland that this high earner lists, we are only able to enjoy these things rather than live within our much more modest means because of the very generous fiscal benefits of UK membership, where
- ScotGov receives £126 per capita to spend on devolved matters in Scotland from HM Treasury for every £100 that it spends per capita on the same matters in England, and
- over all, Scotland receives a massive £25 billion per annum more in public service provision than it raises in revenue.
Just as (as you acknowledge above) it would be stupid for our high earner to walk away from Scotland and lose out on all of these benefits, Scotland would, of course, be every bit as stupid to walk away from the UK and lose out on them too. This might seem like a no brainer but, quite incredibly, there are some Scots who desperately want to impose this horrific damage (and more) upon the Scottish people.