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Caithness is booming! New shops here and more on the way, new call centre.....more money being earned and spent....people are upbeat and optimistic! School uniforms bring new look to schools....even petrol has gone down! The future is looking bright!
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Caithness is on the verge of economic collapse. All the new shops arriving are a big red herring.....we've lost so many important businesses eg Caithness Glass, Norfrost, etc. etc. The new ones will have high staff turnover and will ultimately fail.
The new call centre is a mess.....rumours of scandal, increased crime....the future is looking grim!
What is your take on the Caithness big picture?
pultneytooner
26-Aug-06, 13:03
Caithness is booming! New shops here and more on the way, new call centre.....more money being earned and spent....people are upbeat and optimistic! School uniforms bring new look to schools....even petrol has gone down! The future is looking bright!
or
Caithness is on the verge of economic collapse. All the new shops arriving are a big red herring.....we've lost so many important businesses eg Caithness Glass, Norfrost, etc. etc. The new ones will have high staff turnover and will ultimately fail.
The new call centre is a mess.....rumours of scandal, increased crime....the future is looking grim!
What is your take on the Caithness big picture?
Norfrost is now under the guise of icetech
Caithness is booming! New shops here and more on the way, new call centre.....more money being earned and spent....people are upbeat and optimistic! School uniforms bring new look to schools....even petrol has gone down! The future is looking bright!
or
Caithness is on the verge of economic collapse. All the new shops arriving are a big red herring.....we've lost so many important businesses eg Caithness Glass, Norfrost, etc. etc. The new ones will have high staff turnover and will ultimately fail.
The new call centre is a mess.....rumours of scandal, increased crime....the future is looking grim!
What is your take on the Caithness big picture?
As God wills it.
pultneytooner
26-Aug-06, 13:25
As God wills it.
God and politicians.;)
crashbandicoot1979
26-Aug-06, 13:30
Hopefully Caithness is on the way up, but it's going to take more than Tesco or Asda to do it!
Everyone thinks that the supermarkets will save the county but they are only a small part of the bigger picture. We need NHS dentists. We URGENTLY need more parking in the centre of Thurso (and not more houses or flats, as seems to be the trend at the moment). The local shopkeepers need to pull their heads out of the sand and work with their clientele to ensure that they stay in business, not least when the big players arrive. We need to invest money in tourism as most of the local tourist sites are abysmal. The Victoria Walk and the Mall in Thurso could both do with a face lift. We need more youth centres and stuff to do for teenagers, to keep them off the streets.
Apart from that, we're doing OK but I do think that these problems, plus others, need addressed. Caithness is a great place to liveand has countless positive aspects but I think complacency is setting in.
God and politicians.;)
But surely politicians are part of God's big plan also.
pultneytooner
26-Aug-06, 13:47
But surely politicians are part of God's big plan also.
Nah gleber2, the devil made them and lawyers.[lol]
Nah gleber2, the devil made them and lawyers.[lol]
No I did not!!!!!
Caithness is only a wee part of the equation - the UK is doomed.
Kingetter
26-Aug-06, 14:54
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Caithness is only a wee part of the equation - the UK is doomed.
Expand your vision. The whole world is doomed.
I was talking in terms of short-medium term Gelber2, however if we carry on the way we are going the whole place is knackered I agree.
Caithness is booming! New shops here and more on the way, new call centre.....more money being earned and spent....people are upbeat and optimistic! School uniforms bring new look to schools....even petrol has gone down! The future is looking bright!
or
Caithness is on the verge of economic collapse. All the new shops arriving are a big red herring.....we've lost so many important businesses eg Caithness Glass, Norfrost, etc. etc. The new ones will have high staff turnover and will ultimately fail.
The new call centre is a mess.....rumours of scandal, increased crime....the future is looking grim!
What is your take on the Caithness big picture?
Our Caithnessian life is what we make of it.:D
Our Caithnessian life is what we make of it.:D
I would agree with that, maybe I should have made that one of the options.....
Do supermarkets or lack thereof really affect whether we're truly happy?
A friend of mine recently came back from a third-world country and remarked on how happy people seemed to be, always smiling and extremely generous even though they had very little, but when she returned to the UK everyone looked sooo miserable.
Thats because in this country we tend to have lots of stuff and the theory is the more you have the more you want so the majority of people are never going to be happy.
Caithness IS doomed. You need look no further than the fact that this post has so few responses. The Shawshank Redemption thread has many more people putting their tippance worth in and that sums up the apathy when it comes to matters which can readily be blamed on politicians or simply ignored altogether.
Unicorn is correct in stating that the more you have, the more you want. The developed world is awash with the culture of living to the excess, we are encouraged to live for the moment and care not about the world we leave for our Grandchildren to inherit. We compete with our neighbours to have at least the same, if not better, possessions and are armed with the arsenal of credit cards to make sure we are not left firing blanks in the retail trenches.
People in the Third World have lesser expectations, their priorities are food, water and shelter. They make their own entertainment, singing and dancing, while we sit with our satellite TV and several hundred channels, moaning that there is nothing on worth watching (except perhaps the Shawshank Redemption on UK Bronze channel) They live largely unaware of what the rat-race lifestyle of the Developed World can be like. No mortgages over their heads, no "keeping up with the Jones'" to worry about, no 7am alarm call and sales targets to kick start the mind in the morning. No wonder they look happy.
Post Disclaimer:-
This is a generalistic look at various sections of the human race. It seems in the past that some people have taken what I have said very personally. Apparently this is something I should be ashamed about, so I have asked that anyone reading this should not view it in this manner. Life is there to be lived as the individual sees fit and I have never disputed their right to do that, so long as they do so legally and without harm to others.
Scorrie, you are right on the button. Well said!!! We moan about our lives in paradise even though the achieving of our standard of living is destroying the planet and we will leave damn little for our grandchildren.
beyond the valley of shadowless death
they pray for thunderclouds and rain
but to the multitude that stand in the rain,
heaven is where the sun shines
not me alas- but Genesis 'Mad man moon'
To many people from the south who have chosen to live in Caithness, it was attractive becasue it didn't have the heavy industry and commercialism of the cities- and yet all we hear on this site are people bleating about wanting Tesco and Asda. perhaps we should appreciate what we have:
'Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till its gone...'
(Joni Mitchell)
What's worng with lots of houses anyway? And if petrol rises much more, how many of us might just think of ditching our cars? Then we won't need the car parking spaces.
I've got a suggestion- use the trains between Wick and Thurso, and have trams in both towns.
Bagpuss you talk sense. Don't expect anyone to listen to you. I remember when you could ride a train to Wick for sixpence.
Hear, hear, a sensible thread indeed!
I remember seeing a documentary on tv about a woman juggling her life between being a mum and full time work. She claimed she had to do so because of the cost of child care (tvs in their rooms, computer, all the latest electronic things that "everybody" has, her car, her work outfits and holidays, Christmas, birthdays etc.
It showed her becoming more and more stressed and heading for a breakdown with juggling all the aspects of everything that the family "needed".
Having learnt my lesson previously, I was sitting in my chair practicaly shouting at the screen, "Give it all up; you are working to keep yourself working; not to give the family a good upbringing."
Luckily by the end of the programme, this conclusion was reached and it then showed her dressed comfortably, taking the kids on buses, trains and even walking my goodness!
She glowed with good health, she did not feel guilty about leaving the kids and had more time for enjoying family life which, as we all know, is a precious thing indeed.
The most valuable thing you can give your kids (and your partner) is your time.
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