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  No chance of us locals ever moving to Deal then if the DFL invasion cranks up...we'll languish in our disparaged "ghetto" instead...second class citizens that we are, and unable to escape.
  
  Wasn't HS1 meant to be the saviour of Dover? Great for Deal having the service there too, but surely all the London money will bypass us as a result?
  
  I cannot help but think that Dover's (unfair) bad reputation is working against us and discouraging these sought after salaries form moving here, but as I have said many times, Dover is one of those places that functions as a bogeyman in the national psyche, a kind of collective Goldstein figure, a-la George Orwell's "1984".
  
  It all goes back the the late 90s and the reaction to the asylum seekers when covert racists, secretly wanting to maintain their own areas as independent white homelands and imagine that the problem could be confined to Dover, turned us into a national joke.
  
  Something from which we have yet to recover, and a problem which I feel is often underestimated when we consider how to get the town back on its feet.

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