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Why is Downsizer dominated by Wales/West Country?

The people in these areas are more Downsizery

27%

[ 6 ]

The people in these areas spend less time working

18%

[ 4 ]

Like attracts like

18%

[ 4 ]

Other

36%

[ 8 ]

Total Votes : 22

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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:37 am Post subject: I wonder why...
...the membership of DS is mainly Welsh & SW. Is it: 1) The people in these areas are more Downsizery 2) The people in these areas spend less time working 3) Like attracts like 4) Other

Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:39 am Post subject:
Because land is cheaper outside of the South East? Those were the areas that people moved to when they downsized? Isn't there a load of DS's in Yorkshire?

Barefoot Andrew
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:39 am Post subject:
Option 2 may be controversial A.

jamanda
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35082
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:50 am Post subject:
I don't think it is dominated by those areas.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:55 am Post subject:
There are lots of retired hippies around here, many of whom fit into a sort of general downsizeriness. I think the same goes for the South west. Certainly land is cheaper here than in the South east.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:58 am Post subject:
If you ignore Anglesey Wales looks like a pigs head. How much more downsizery can you get.

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 10:59 am Post subject:
I think wales and the southwest have been the home of smallholdings since the 70s. Most smallholdings are in wales or cornwall (apparently, can't remember where I read that) and most books I read about people jacking in city life and buying a smallholding are set in wales or the southwest.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:02 am Post subject:
south Devon definitely isn't cheap. praps thats why there are only 2 of us here..

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:03 am Post subject:

It's probably a combination of all of them.

I suspect that if you join a site like this and see that there are people in your local area, you either run screaming for the hills or you stick around to see what they are like.

I joined initially because I liked the concept. And then Judith bullied me in to meeting up with what became 'the sluts' under the pretext of us all needing encouragement to eat proper lunches whilst our partners worked away. And now I'd say that many people I include among my 'real life' bestest friends are from you lot, as well as people I think of as good friends but don't actually meet very much in real life.

It's odd. But nice.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:03 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

If you ignore Anglesey Wales looks like a pigs head.

I wish you would stop going on about that. That's weird, too.

Treacodactyl
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:11 am Post subject:
For us it's because property is cheaper compared to the SE, it's far less crowded and built up and where we're looking is closer to the sea than many other places in the UK.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:13 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

vegplot wrote:

If you ignore Anglesey Wales looks like a pigs head.

I wish you would stop going on about that. That's weird, too.

Going on about what? First time I've said it.

sean
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:15 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

For us it's because property is cheaper compared to the SE, it's far less crowded and built up and where we're looking is closer to the sea than many other places in the UK.

That. And Torrington has an ace Arts Centre. I actually go to far more stuff than I did when I lived in London where I tended to suffer from decision paralysis about that sort of stuff.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:17 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Chez wrote:

vegplot wrote:

If you ignore Anglesey Wales looks like a pigs head.

I wish you would stop going on about that. That's weird, too.

Going on about what? First time I've said it.

No, you blurt it out in your sleep as well.

That's probably not reassuiring to know.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 09 11:17 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Going on about what? First time I've said it.

Arvo goes on about how the UK is a picture of a man riding a pig. I am SURE that you validated him at some point. I just can't see it, myself.

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