But that is perhaps what you fail to see.
There will be an emotional detachment amongst some of these ex-pats who perhaps see that some of the realism about the old country isnt all hills and bagpipes, but instead is concrete, rain, grey, dull and depressing. Similar to how I feel about Edinburgh - I cant marvel at the splendour of the beauty of the local architecture as I've spent far too often travelling through there on really crap sodden mornings when it does seem like a really bleak place. I can only imagine that a Greenockian ex-pat would feel that way only multiplied several times over.
The fact that it isn't governed in the way they want can only compound this emotional detachment, although ithe current state that the SNP has left the place after the last 17 years should only serve as a warning that these clowns shouldn't be allowed to get independence. They would leave us in a state worse than Greece in no time at all.