Toby Rider wrote:
However... some small towns have a lot of social problems and some of
these places would need a bit of care, particularly if you have kids
and are concerned about schools etc.
What sort of social problems??
Same as in the Borders - lovely towns, sod all to do for kids, not a lot
for young adults, and mainly drinking for everyone else. Anyone
intelligent enough to need a college education usually has to leave town
to get it, and not many return early in life (plenty come back, or move
in, in later years).
Come to think of it, same problems as most of rural Scotland, rural
Wales, rural England, rural Ireland...
NB: on the Buckfast topic - someone has left an 80 per cent finished
bottle of Buckie opposite my back door. Abandoned midway down a 100 yard
lane. Says it all, about Buckfast, and about small towns!
DK
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