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Yes they are but they bring valued income spent locally.
High speed trains are changing the local profile.
Watty
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Yes they are but they bring valued income spent locally.
High speed trains are changing the local profile.
Watty
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mr Watkins ,Sir when are you moving over to Sandwich then.
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Vic,very contented where I live thanks.
I have the advantage of being able to walk to the town centre,seafront, railway, pubs and restaurants whilst enjoying a peaceful tranquil garden that my family, particularly grandchildren & dog can enjoy.
And every now and then I see Andy Stevens heading for the train.
He knows a good thing when he sees it.
Watty
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes I know where you are and I will be the one to put our leaflet in your door so same as the others a nice cup of tea please.
High speed trains might make a difference. I travel so many miles in my work because Dover - love it to bits wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but......... - has no real career opportunities for someone like me. Anything that makes the commute easier has to be good. My family and I bring a significant spend to Dover just because we like it here - it would be so much easier for us all if we moved to a more central location - and there must be others like us (???) who should be valued and cossetted!! Dover could and should attract professionals and those with a proper disposable income: Dover is really beautiful, has loads of really lovely historical sites and views, and is easy to love. It has always amazed me that the reps here haven't properly capitalised on that. Or anything, come to that.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Bern, it`s great to hear your comments on Dover, and it needs people from out of town to appreciate it, if that`s the word, as one`s like myself born and bred here have seen nothing but decline.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
We moved here over 10 years ago because we fell in love with it on sight, Colin. We love Dover, but we do feel let down by the people tasked with maintaining it. The paid and elected reps seem to fail us ordinary Dovorians by a wide margin. Even in the last 10 years we have seen little but as you say, decline and decay - it is criminal that Dover is allowed to fade away like this - it really is lovely, with so much to offer. I only hope that people visiting take the time to discover it for themselves - it is their loss if they don't and I mean that literally, not horribly!!
I'm in the same boat as you Bern. I have to work elsewhere but do like living in this neck of the woods. However, I'm beginning to do some retirement planning and Dover doesn't figure in it. We've been here since 1986 and it's been downhill all the way for Dover, and I see no prospect of that changing, sadly.