No university fees, free prescriptions and a £300,000 house would cost £1m in England: why an increasing number of couples are emigrating to Scotland | Mail Online

No university fees, free prescriptions and a £300,000 house would cost £1m in England: why an increasing number of couples are emigrating to Scotland | Mail Online

Television property shows used to be full of English couples moving to the Med for a better life. Now an increasing number are looking north - to Scotland.
No prescription charges, an efficient health service, good schools and no university fees are all being cited by those moving north of the border. Add to that far cheaper property prices than in the South, and the attraction becomes even more potent.

Last week, the Labour Party, the SNP and Lib Dems committed themselves to ruling out student tuition fees, which can be up to £9,000 a year in England, at least for their next five-year parliament term.