Norman House prices are an issue in UK. If young folk are priced out of existence then our community has no future. Sorry no patronising meant. but our community needs young families and they need houses. Incomers are of course welcome as they have been for 1,000s of years, but the life blood of Orkney is not those who decide to retire here. It is the young folk who TRY to stay. I will not apologise for saying that as without families, children, and community Orkney is dead. You all need to look at what is happeneing in UK, more and more young people are voting with their feet and leaving because of our upside down system. Sorry but when house prices get so skewed by incoming money you can just expect that there will be a reaction - emigration.

Charles Tait wrote: > Norman > > House prices are an issue in UK. If young folk are priced out of > existence then our community has no future. Sorry no patronising > meant. but our community needs young families and they need houses. > Incomers are of course welcome as they have been for 1,000s of years, > but the life blood of Orkney is not those who decide to retire here. > It is the young folk who TRY to stay. > > I will not apologise for saying that as without families, children, > and community Orkney is dead. > > You all need to look at what is happeneing in UK, more and more young > people are voting with their feet and leaving because of our upside > down system. > > Sorry but when house prices get so skewed by incoming money you can > just expect that there will be a reaction - emigration. > All that is no doubt true, Charles, but all that Jim innocently asked about was what was worth watching on television. Though you say that "incomers are of course welcome" to Orkney, are you suggesting that those aged over 60 aren't? That would be me turned back at the border, then! Norman Tulloch

The same thing happening here and, I suspect, most places. Marion (Maine) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Tait" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Orkney winters > Norman > > House prices are an issue in UK. If young folk are priced out of > existence then our community has no future. Sorry no patronising meant. > but our community needs young families and they need houses. > Incomers are of course welcome as they have been for 1,000s of years, > but the life blood of Orkney is not those who decide to retire here. It > is the young folk who TRY to stay. > > I will not apologise for saying that as without families, children, and > community Orkney is dead. > > You all need to look at what is happeneing in UK, more and more young > people are voting with their feet and leaving because of our upside down > system. > > Sorry but when house prices get so skewed by incoming money you can just > expect that there will be a reaction - emigration. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message