Doom and gloom Shelly:
Show her some good news and she says its a fairytale. If you ask me she is living in her own depressed world. Shelly: we shall see, we shall see.
Love the area and others will love it too.
Seagrove Lover
shelly is experiencing how lonely it is to be a voice of reason.
but thanks for the rational approach to the ups and downs shelly!
sometimes the truth hurts, for most of us we'd still rather know the truth even if it's not ideal than have a pretty phony picture painted for us. thanks for sharing your experience and perspective shelly!
p.s. it's funny to hear someone comparing london to this area on this board, i wouldn't begin to do that,
but since you opened the can of worms....
having lived here and in london for a couple years each. despite how expensive london is, i can tell you cost of living is comparable here if you are employed in the economy, but the health care, amenities, education, restaurants and cultural offerings are better in london. there are more varied opportunities for business and career as well.
housing is a little more expensive there, but they also have fantastic trasportation and i happily lived without a car in london. not possible here. so i feel that those two things even each other out.
i'm not sure what you meant by "immigrants" but in the uk, immigrants are legalized and have opportunity, whilst here they are illegal and employed as slaves by local businesses and live in deplorable conditions not even speaking english. that does not make for a safe or civil community. i venture to say the class system here is just as bad as england, but the immigrants and the community certainly have it better there as immigration laws are enforced.
london also has plenty of public outdoor spaces..they have loads of parks and a few hours drive out the beach or lakes, but our beach is definitely waaaay better!
simply to have visited somewhere else doesn't really give one a good idea of what it's like to live somehwere. our visits here are very different than our experience of living here for instance.
in other words, having many foreign friends and family, few of them would see the benefit of investing in this area, at least quite yet until it's up to speed. most who have done or are considering it, will do so in areas that offer excellent economic opportunities, easy and affordable travel from europe and world class health care. often, those places are more urban.
if they want a beach, they just go to a resort hotel on holiday.