Inefficiency.

[colinc]

If this were Thailand, friends, family and neighbours would be looking after each other. After spending some time over there I don’t think the West has any improved way of life at all. Society is certainly more unhappy. So much for progression. Progression for the rich elites maybe

You can save money now by sending your elderly to care homes in the Far East......


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[Hivemaker.]

You can save money now by sending your elderly to care homes in the Far East......

Siberia?

 

[Anduril]

In September my son got placed on the waiting list to see a consultant, he was seen by the consultant just before Christmas, and will have an operation next week. He was on the waiting list for Wales and the West of England, Wales responded very quickly. No complaints.

 

[mbc]

Soilent green?

 

[madasafish]

Soilent green?

Bit tough.

 

[mbc]

If this were Thailand, friends, family and neighbours would be looking after each other. After spending some time over there I don’t think the West has any improved way of life at all. Society is certainly more unhappy. So much for progression. Progression for the rich elites maybe

To be fair I think this is still very usual in our communities here (west Wales ), though it's going downhill as more incomers arrive with their different values.

 

[SDM]

To be fair I think this is still very usual in our communities here (west Wales ), though it's going downhill as more incomers arrive with their different values.

I'd say it's got more to do with younger generations leaving than any radical ideology differences of those coming in. The young leave for work. Family groups are separated by greater distances and the time pressure of both men and women needing to be in full time employment. This is compounded in rural areas by the fact that it's often the elderly who are moving into the area, but without the same level of support from communities they are new to and displacement from their children. Combine that with the complex medical needs of the elderly and you have a problem.
Anglesey is possibly the best/worst example of this. It's basically a retirement island populated by the elderly and their carers.

 

[Eyeman]

Anglesey is possibly the best/worst example of this. It's basically a retirement island populated by the elderly and their carers.

Don't forget the second home owners! I'm there as we speak.

 

[SDM]

Don't forget the second home owners! I'm there as we speak.

For sure, many of which are bought with a view to becoming retirement homes. It's how me, my sister and my parents moved here along with half the people I grew up sailing with. It seems the island is twinned with Cheshire.

 

[For want of a better word]

I'd say it's got more to do with younger generations leaving than any radical ideology differences of those coming in. The young leave for work. Family groups are separated by greater distances and the time pressure of both men and women needing to be in full time employment. This is compounded in rural areas by the fact that it's often the elderly who are moving into the area, but without the same level of support from communities they are new to and displacement from their children. Combine that with the complex medical needs of the elderly and you have a problem.
Anglesey is possibly the best/worst example of this. It's basically a retirement island populated by the elderly and their carers.

Seems this is the way the population dynamics is changing... "affordable" homes are not being built and the lower priced housing is being snapped up as "second" or holiday homes.... taking out the lower end of the housing stock and forcing younger people to leave the county.
I have noticed that fewer wealthy persons from the up country cities ( and expensive South East / Home Counties) are buying the floating Gin Palaces as Marina charges escalate......
And also some ... usually those( Thirty somethings) who have earned a fortune in the financial sector and sell their flat in Carary Wharfe and the pretty cottage in Surrey and retire... buy up some land in rural Cornwall ( a snip at about £20K per acre) and start a Hugh Furry/ Kirstie Kraftwork lifestyle.. that also involves keeping bees...

What do you mean stupid beekeeper ???... they do not need feeding... we planted 2 acres of clover... a few square meters of lavender and six manuka trees!!!



Yeghes da

 

[SDM]

Here it's half acre wildflower meadows and the echoing wails of farmers who can't compete for grazing land with the horse owners.
Still, I can't complain. The island must look like a colourful patchwork quilt from the air in June/July and its amazing the difference between 1 horse per acre walking on clover that I guess was always there but never flowered. and 50 sheep eating everything down to a length that would shame any crown green bowling green.