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Re:London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Bill... by smnscu on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:03PM (#13610384)
Reminds me of the recent The Grand Tour episode, when they mention how if you're famous for something positive you're called British, otherwise you're Scottish/Welsh.
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Re:London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Bill... by mjw1007 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:35PM (#13610675)
Do they give any reason to believe that what they're mentioning is true?

I've looked informally for this phenomenon and I haven't been able to find it.

The only concrete piece of research I know on a specific case came up negative: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-349098...

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Re:London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Bill... by falsedan on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:19AM (#13614413)
Andy Murray is a highly-visible recent example [0].

[0]: https://stv.tv/news/stirling-central/1360095-andy-murray-mor...

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Re:London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Bill... by Retric on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:11PM (#13611024)
List of famious Scottish People often include J.K.Rowling as Scottish, but Wikipedia lists her as English. So, it probably only applies to people that can claim both as she was born in England, but wrote the books in Scotland.
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Re:London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Bill... by falsedan on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:17AM (#13614408)
Scots have a saying: if you live here, you're Scottish.
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