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 photo: david lindley beach hut looking at the prices of properties in estate agent’s windows you realise how valuable property is in whitstable these days – I should think we’d be lucky to be able to get something like this des-res beach hut right in the heart of the town. the problem comes (as many people have pointed out is the case in other countries too) when the locals, often on far lower wages than the incomers, try to get on the property ladder. in many occasions these people too are the very people that the local town needs to survive: nurses, cleaners, shopworkers, etc. all key to the survival of a village and if they’re forced to move to be able to find a house, then what price for the local community? further on from this, and seen in several villages in the area where we live, is that many of the incomers live in the village but work and shop in the city; money into the local economy dries up and the main shopping street dies by increments, leaving little but picture postcard looks and charity shops as the sole remaining life in the village tends to be mothers with toddlers and/or pensioners. | |
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