Just silly as people do live there but just much fewer than elsewhere.

The charges of bias are real, but from the perspective of western civilization this is fair. There is the same situation in Indonesia where more than half of everyone lives on the island of Java, the most populated island in the world. When it comes to trade it's hard to get wealthy trading only coconuts. It causes people to gather to build industry. On the other hand, the Big Island is capable of so much more, but trade hasn't been kind to the island. Sugar was not competitive, but there was no problem growing sugar. I hear much of beef and milk get exported from the island, and costs are incredible even though the island is quite productive here. Unfortunately, the major hub, Hilo, despite being a beautiful city, has had to deal with heavy rains, volcanoes, and tsunamis. I'm sure the native islanders could give a more complete details if they wanted. I only lived there two years. It is a beautiful land with beautiful people.

Travel is expensive all over the US. I live in South Jersey, but my company office is in Manhattan. It costs about $75 to use public transportation to travel between South Jersey and Manhattan. Thank God I work from home!! Thank you, Jesus 🙏🏼

Wow…why bring it up. 🤢

You need to do more homework 😮

I don't live in the Highlands but have been there- including Skye- walking the mountains Winter and Summer....a wonderful place ...but I am an old timer (77) and sadly not fit enough to go back there...from Ireland...also love much of the music from Julie Fowlis to McKellar...as for the haggis ...tastes fine but smell not great! ..Ae Fond kiss.

What a tacky, cheaply researched video, totally misleading. Needs dislikes. 👎🏻

Scotland has experienced what nearly every other European country hasn't, population decline and stagnations, with brief spells of population increase. The clearances played a huge part of population decline and the areas you talk about, with the exception of Inverness, generally had higher populations in the 1860s than they do now. The land lord system has been brutal for Scotland.

Mucho Gracias

This video is completely wrong.

What a pile of fertiliser!

Click bate 😂😂😂

I am a highlander born and bred and the reason the highlands is empty is simple. After the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, the Highland Clearances were started to ensure there were no further rebellions. This ultimately led to the dismemberment of the clan system and the deportation of a large percentage of the people living in the highlands. As many of these people were crofters, which is a hard life, nobody moved in to replace these people. The land is not suitable for the building of towns or cities, and for the infrastructure required to support them. Plenty of people live in the highlands, but it takes a certain type of person to thrive there, so the population density is low.

Try booking a B&B in Skye and you will soon see how quiet it isn’t

6:41 is not a midge it’s a mosquito … midge a few seconds later

1:25 rock in sea looks like ailsa Craig pretty much south west Scotland

Hi from the north of Scotland this is BS

i moved up 11 years ago, after starting my lejog trip after meeting a local woman in Groats and was suppose to stay 3 months. i see similarities between highlands and cornwall such as fishing farming and tourism. like the highlands many homes have been bought as 2nd homes by the affluent in uk. this has destroyed village life which 2nd home owners wanted to be part off when they came to stay 🤔. some villages have 70% of homes used as 2nd homes and the affluent then wonder why the village life they wanted to experience has vanished. be a real shame if highlands went this way. NC500 is a double edged sword for locals, brings tourists both good and bad. some of the things that bad tourists have done to highlands is beyond belief and has upset many highlanders.

One of the worst and most misleading videos about Scotland on the internet. Take it down.

Talking about Maui and showing Kauai

Hawaiians aren't "indigenous". They're ocean-going migrants. There was another race of people present when those particular Polynesians arrived but they wiped them out. Hawaiian lore speaks of them.

You need to do better research malahini😂😂😂😂😂

Wow should I tell my family to leave.

Erm.. you got the North sea wrong. What you labeled the north sea is the artic ocean. The north sea is to the east of Scotland.

BS. Hardly empty. We lived 30 years on the Big Island. It became vastly overpopulated for us. An ant hill. This is misleading. We now reside in the New Mexican desert.

Love the applecross pass used as the a9 between thurso and Inverness lol

What a load of pish.

Rising see levels is not a factor as yet for populations on the Big Island. It’s economics. Jobs etc. Also people don’t realize the BI is mostly mountainous. People could live up in the interior if they wanted to build roads and put up with steep rough terrain, rain, fog, and cold. As it is there is a saddle road that goes through the mountains and no one has developed up there to live. There is village near Volcano that has grown but little over the last century. No work (except for the case of the national park) and not nice to live there. Then there is the volcanoes that have destroyed whole communities. It is not impossible at all. You need to find a job, and you need to pay high land prices and rents (like all Hawaii).

looking at the title it's miss leading over 100K people live in that area of Scotland including Inverness with 63K people also known as the capital of the Highlands

Man made climate change is a hoax to rake in millions of dollars! The Climate has been changing since the dawn of time! Ask a native American!

Load of tosh,, I keep visiting year after year, the people are real and by that I mean totally awe inspiring..its how we should all live , in the moment and on the land

Well I came here 38 years ago and I ain't going back, my hometown London is now a suitable full of tribal hatetred

Don't move to Hawaii