We live and work In Edinburgh (Unlike some)
Morning again - nebby !
Being an Edinburgh removals man in a van travelling all over Scotland and the uk I go to and pass thought some strange little places. I like the Scottish countryside and there are some beautiful little former fishing villages and small towns around Scotland but there are some real desperate little depressing places. Some used to have mining or some other little industry like Kirkcaldy, lino... or marmoleum as its now called, popular in hospitals due to its disinfectant properties, lino in homes is not as popular as it was but still they have a factory in the town - it was a booming trade well over 30 years ago not it’s more or less gone. Some other little places dotted over Scotland have been geared to coal mining/fishing and some locations I move people to look like they have just been build to accommodate a growing overflowing population, or accommodated a lost working generation skilled or unskilled.
Some of the housing planners must have been mad planned those concrete small towns, indistinctive tiny brown boxes in a line with grubby exteriors with no character with the compulsory depressing point of interest co-op they all congregate for fags and booze, depressing little schemes. People living there must feel quite desperate at times it’s no wonder they have chemical abuse and alcohol problems plus the usual benefits claimants, how can you find a decent paying job when nothing is available? It must cost a fortune to keep the population expanding. I’m not sure what the future for those types of towns if there is a future, do small towns/schemes really need a future? Nothing will ever happen without billions of investments but then its back to the solution to the problem.. governments throwing money at it and for what reason? Time must just drag on for someone living in a place like that with no hope for most.
I’m not a great believer in economical/population growth, not everyone has to run the family formula brought on by peer pressures or maybe its just a basic human instinct (boredum) look where it gets the population, unwanted feral kids, greed, crime, housing shortages and the biggest offender of all the social costs paid for by the workers/taxpayers. It can only go so far till something happens good or bad. Maybe one day the government (in 20 years or so) will be a bit more pro-active with the lost and growing population issue no one likes to talk about - not everyone has a purpose/future/relevance and we don’t need to expand towns and population for no reason - where will it all end??
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