Duc_et_Pair
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This decision though doesn't only affect Scotland but the entire union is going to be affected.
The sad thing is the way Scotland is being torn apart.
I have friends with family over there who are planning on leaving regardless of the vote due to the way their community is no longer a community. They have been vilified by former friends over their views and have been uninvited to two weddings in the past two weeks because of their opinions.
Don't worry. It is not from today over tomorrow that Scotland will become independent. When the YES-camp wins the Referendum, then negotiations will start with "Westminster" and things will be handed over in a prudent manner with respect for the outcome of the democratic process.
When Ireland became an independent country possibly the same tensions were there as well, between nationalists and unionists but -with the exception of Ulster- the Irish woke up in a new country and went on with their daily life. The bus still stops around the corner, there is still electricity coming out of that contact in the wall and your children are still expected in school class. It is just a new reality and people will adjust to it.
Who would ever have thought that countries as Germany or France would give up the Deutsche Mark or the Franc Français? On 1 January 2002 all ATM's in the whole of the Eurozone started to distribute Euros instead of Guilders, Pesetas, Liras, etc. People simply started to use these currencies and today, the 10th of August 2014, still around 400 million people use this currency every day. They get their pensions in Euros, they calculate in Euros and buy houses and cars with Euros. Life simply goes on. There is no alternative anyway when reality is there.