--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many of them own their homes, and they may be worth a good sum, > since they are an easy commute to Manchester and Liverpool. Many > regular sized homes go for close to 400,000 at further commutes and > not necessarily nicer areas. > > The dome may not be owned by the TMO.?? > > I doubt the die-hards with families and homes there have any plans > to stop what they have been doing for 20 years or more.
For many years there has been a somewhat less than open division in the community in Skelmersdale, with a significant number of people who have always wanted the Sidhaland to be located elsewhere - preferably the south of England, but anywhere other than Skelmersdale, which for those of you do not know, was started in the 1960's as project housing for low income residents of Liverpool - i.e. level the slums of Liverpool and bring the residents to Skelmersdale. There is a great north-south divide in England, and for many people in the south to consider even moving to Skelmersdale was just too much. It never worked to the degree the local government envisaged and the amount of vacant (and free) project housing available in the late 1970's was the only reason it was chosen as the Sidhaland site. Current residents were also told last year by MMY that the whole setting was inappropriate, even before TMO was closed down in UK. It only has about 240 adult residents and about 90 children (and it is now in its 25th year), and it is generally accepted by residents there that there will be no more growth. Houses are very cheap there with the most expensive ones being those built according to Sthapyaveda standards - and with the market for such houses going to zero overnight, it is easy to see the effect on the prices of such houses. For "regular" houses, the desire for people of Liverpool and Manchester to live in Skelmersdate is, quite bluntly, zero. It is still considered the "projects" of these two cities. PS Even with the current exchange rate favorable to the British pound, there are very, very few $400,000 (British Pounds 200,000) houses in Skelmersdale. Skelmersdale is, and has been since it was first invented in the 1960's, a low-income, projects town with almost zero infrastructure. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
