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nige999	Posted: 08.08.2006, 09:11
registered: Jun. 2006 Posts: 301 Status: offline last visit: 29.12.08	http://news.bbc.../5253084.stm QuoteBusiness leaders hope it will encourage more to relocate to Cornwall, which while being apparently happy, is also the poorest county in England. And in the entire article, not a single word about locally born and bred people.


brammangath	Posted: 08.08.2006, 09:22
registered: Jul. 2006 Posts: 45 Status: offline last visit: 10.03.08	They didn't interview me for their survey and I'm actually pretty miserable. More to relocate here? Trouble is, all these efforts to get businesses to relocate here are actually appealling more to the workforce than to their bosses!


FlammNew	Posted: 08.08.2006, 09:25
registered: Mar. 2006 Posts: 1814 Status: offline last visit: 27.03.08	Once Cornwall is jam-packed with incomers it'll be just as miserable as anywhere else in the UK and life here will be ruined. Don't people realise that my moving here en-masse they are helping to destroy the very quality of life they want to move here for?


nige999	Posted: 08.08.2006, 10:38
registered: Jun. 2006 Posts: 301 Status: offline last visit: 29.12.08	My dear old gran (now gone, sadly) used to tell me about the the English who retired to Helston, where she had a sheltered council place. She said there was a high suicide rate amongst older english newcomers as a couple would retire, move to Cornwall (where it was always sunny) and then find out it wasn't always sunny. They would make no effort to integrate with the locals and when the inevitable happened and one popped off, it was a near certainty that the one left would be found with head in gas oven a few months on. My gran was a decent Christian sort but she told me that with a certain relish. She was particularly dismissive of their rudeness to people like herself. My Gran would have welcomed them as friends if they made the effort but they never did, just moaning about how unfriendly the locals were.


Masterclass	Posted: 08.08.2006, 12:01
registered: Oct. 2004 Posts: 999 Status: offline last visit: 08.01.09	Quotewhen the inevitable happened and one popped off, it was a near certainty that the one left would be found with head in gas oven a few months on. I have a feeling that this is a fairly common happening. When one of a couple dies, often the partner will not be a live for much longer. I've read it somewhere, but I can't remember where, though. I'll engage brain in a bit, and find the reference, but it could be heresay.


arrowmaker	Posted: 08.08.2006, 18:49
registered: Jan. 2006 Posts: 10 Status: offline last visit: 17.02.07	the same article only said it was middle class people who were asked in the survey. They are the ones that can afford the houses down here, Cornwall has only 65% GDP of the national average yet property is the most expensive outside the south east.

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