| Comment | >Those businesses will be paying council tax whether it's locals buying or students, the council tax paid by businesses doesn't scale based on students shopping there.
Those business would categorically not exist without those students. Local custom would not be enough, not even fucking close. Like so far away it seems absurd to try and make that argument.
Sure if you drained the city of all 70,000 students the property values would indeed crash as the local post-secondary education system totally collapsed but Glasgow would be much worse off than it has been in decades. Flats tend to be cheap in an economically devastated area but I am not sure that is a great plan to control the housing market. I would rather keep the city vibrant and thriving and focus on creating new stock. I really don't think your "totally crash the local economy so things get so shite the flats are cheap" is a fantastic plan. |
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