Dubai is seriously exactly what would have happened if someone had given 13 year old me and my friends unlimited money and a big patch of empty land.

“Let drive Ferraris everywhere and make super tall buildings and make our own islands and air conditioned beaches and give firefighters jetpacks!”

“Yeah, and no girls…

Nah, I think it would have been a real catalyst for discussion about just how poorly Scotland gets treated and how it has been in the past, or has been treated in the past, and would have pushed the “Yes” vote ahead just a little more.

You are forgetting the politics.