I am sure you are right, how much of it is usable though? You can’t do much with rocks and views.
Is there public access to most of this land?
I think a lot of the time the argument is about access rather than ownership.
Should of been a mod here if still alive
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At the moment not much but the question is how useable would it be, a lot more than it is now. Land stripped bare by ethic cleansing for deer, grouse and sheep. At least the Aussies and the Canadians gave some of it back to the indigenous people. Ours is just a billionaires plaything.
#LifeGoals
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The Scottish ‘right to roam’ entitlement is significantly stronger than in England. I also suspect that you’d get away with it most of the time anyway, on the basis that, well, who’s going to stop you ?
If you want a properly challenging walk in the UK then this one will take some beating https://www.5degreeswest.co.uk/. At the southern end there are other people, but further north there more-or-less aren’t. Bill Jack who, as far as he knows, is the only person to complete it, at least in the last 19 years, said that sometimes he realised someone, probably a gamekeeper, was watching him. The giveaway was a flash of sunlight reflected from a distant binocular lens. That was it. There’s some forestry and at the very north end there’s a military range around Cape Wrath. So it is usable, in some senses.
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That looks tremendous Graeme - impressive that he’s the only one to have completed it.
Having done loads of cycling around the Cowal Peninsula I can vouch for it being hilly as fuck .
and despite him saying that it’s the more populous area, people are few and far between once off the main roads. It’s a lovely part of the country.
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To be fair, I’m going on his ‘roll of honour’ which he set up on the website having completed the walk. He said he’d list the names of people who confirmed to him that they’d done it. That was 2004. So far his is the only name !
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I follow this group on Instagram, who often post informative stuff about access issues in England and wales.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CneoTSsqsf-/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
So, what would you do with it if you were really wealthy, for arguments sake say >£10M?
Had to laugh at the description of this pic from twitter
Photo from The Mall showing all the rubbish, sleeping bags and tents left behind by the ridiculous twats who spent three days waiting for a billionaire who fucking despises them to drive past in his coach worth more than the combined price of their houses
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I’m always impressed with the US billionaires who say that their kids won’t get much. I think it’s ok to receive enough to take off the pressure of life, but not too enable a life of absurd comfort.
I think that the limit in my mind might be a family house amount, say a million, plus the same in cash? That kind of figure.
See, to my mind that is still passing on wealth. OK, it’s not absolutely huge amounts but certainly enough to enable a more ‘relaxed’ attitude to work, life etc.
That would allow your kids to be mortgage free and have a £50K salary for 20 years, without lifting a finger. Few could envisage such a legacy.
Why not just buy them a house in Middlesborough and if they want to do better they have to work for it.
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Yeah I’m quite happy for to be argued down!
At my college the library was donated by a guy who was a fourth generation philanthropist. His great grandfather had made a fortune, and all his descendants since then have been giving it away. Such as to colleges that are already very rich. I imagine that they live somewhere rather comfortable and basically do whatever the fuck they like.
A million or two takes all the pressure off life, but you’d have to work if you want to be comfortable. A house plus £30k a year is not a life of luxury. There is a very reasonable human desire to pass on something to your spawn.
Because I don’t want them to hate me?
@pmac will be along in a mo to ask how they could possibly do better 
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It amuses me the way you draw the arbitrary line around your middle class lifestyle.
Almost like you have no concept of life outside your little St Albans bubble. 
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Exactly that