buying land - where would you buy ?

[cryingfreeman]

I've been to Portree to check it out and Applecross as well, just researching potential retreat locales in NW Scotland. I like the fact that NW Scotland has the lowest population density in W Europe and is blocked from Scotland's population centres by the mountains.

People seem to think that because the Highlands are not of the same scale as the Alps that the mountains are no great barrier; I say that to the average refugee / displaced urbanite with zero preparedness and survival skills, they would be every bit as impassable in a grid down situation as higher ranges. When the Lords of the Isles were being put down, the Scottish government in those times felt it impossible to tackle them overland so they sent ships around the north coast of Scotland to attack from the sea. That says something for the difficulty in penetrating those mountains without modern transport.