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Gazza said:
Those places are usually way out of the communal areas reserved for industrial estates typically. And it’s not the area vs some businesses
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There are loads in built up areas in London. I used to drive one literally at a terraced estate near Herne Hill, one literally next to apartments in Battersea, thats just two off my head.

The highstreet has been in decline for 20+ years too. The rise of William Hills, Cash Convertors and Gregg's is far more third world and worrying IMO

The a wider point I absolutely love areas like Whitechapel, Brick Lane, China Town and New Maldon.....anything that shows some culture works for me
 
Grays_1890 said:
There are loads in built up areas in London. I used to drive one literally at a terraced estate near Herne Hill, one literally next to apartments in Battersea, thats just two off my head.

The highstreet has been in decline for 20+ years too. The rise of William Hills, Cash Convertors and Gregg's is far more third world and worrying IMO

The a wider point I absolutely love areas like Whitechapel, Brick Lane, China Town and New Maldon.....anything that shows some culture works for me
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New Maldon is a dive but I’ll give you the other two.

Nothing wrong with a Greggs.
 
Gazza said:
New Maldon is a dive but I’ll give you the other two.

Nothing wrong with a Greggs.
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Love the food in New Maldon.....unreal

I love the odd Greggs but it's indicative of the lazy or poorer classes, feed them sh1te and don't worry about health moment we are in
 
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Rorschach said:
Online retail is killing the high street.
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Yes.

But, to some degree the high street isn’t agile enough in the market, it’s not working hard enough to compete on price, and that’s partly because the land ownership isn’t smart enough to realise it also needs to be competitive on rents and rates.

Physical retail has been glacially slow to respond.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Absolutely this.

Also people are not acting smart enough as pubs and entertainment to maximize what they have. Pints footy and pork scratchings ain't cutting it anymore
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Hence why the Wetherspoon is doing quite well. But there is definitely a place for what you mentioned. I quite enjoy a lazy Sunday at a few locals for some sports and the rest.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Love the food in New Maldon.....unreal

I love the odd Greggs but it's indicative of the lazy or poorer classes, feed them sh1te and don't worry about health moment we are in
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The Korean food is unreal there but Greg’s definitely has its value … McDonald’s though can get in the bin.
 
Gazza said:
The Korean food is unreal there but Greg’s definitely has its value … McDonald’s though can get in the bin.
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I think the whole unhealthy living promotion in this country is a bigger strain on the NHS and our kids than any immigration problem will ever be.

People need proper food eduction and fitness eduction from a young age here.

Country full of fat, booze and drug problems bottle necking the NHS
 
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Gazza said:
It’s the sight of once prosperous areas becoming ghettos full where one high street will have money laundering shops like excessive number barber shops, excessive butcher shops, and run down facilities as the population are not contributing back into the areas through work. Instead you have people with larger families supported by the state, lots of men just hanging around without work in the streets, hardly a word of English spoken, rubbish everywhere and it looks like an absolute dump. The schools are overrun and the public facilities are at their limits. It doesn’t look like England.
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Look dude. I'd like you to stop interacting with me. Please.
 
Baleforce said:
Yes.

But, to some degree the high street isn’t agile enough in the market, it’s not working hard enough to compete on price, and that’s partly because the land ownership isn’t smart enough to realise it also needs to be competitive on rents and rates.

Physical retail has been glacially slow to respond.
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You just can't equalise the fixed costs of running a chain of 50 shops compared to running an online store solely out of
a distribution centre in Northampton.

The only real advantage a physical store has is a personal experience. And people care less and less about that, with most modern day 'personal experience ' coming thru their phone. Which also handily falls right into the lap of online retailers. Their promotion/offers/advertising/inventory all fed thru the thing stuck to the end of everyone's arm.

High Streets only angle for resurrection is to become social centres.

Or probably more sensibly (ie except the changes in society behaviour as a simple truth) converting retail back to residential.

If some of the high street remains as social ...bars, cafe, coffee, music, markets....then when you're single or a couple and relatively young that's where you want to live.
 
Mikey10 said:
Don’t disagree with your first point and can see some truth in the second point. For me, though, the biggest problems facing education today are:

1. The prevalence of poor parenting skills, frequently - but not exclusively - linked to technology use, both by pupils at home and their parents. This is also linked to the desire of many parents to be their child’s best friend, rather than their parent.

2. The difficulty for schools in dealing promptly with those who disrupt the learning of others.

3. The hollowing out of state services has led to teachers having to work in areas (such as social care and mental health) in which they receive only the most basic training, and which take up far too much of their focus in lessons.
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Personally I think education itself is vulnerable to AI .

Two reasons really.
1. The curriculum needs a complete reboot. We are still teaching something akin to the 70s and 80s. The world has changed so much.
2. It's been proven that 1 to 1 tuition (or even small groups) is far more effective and garners much better results and outcomes. AI can facilitate this with bells on.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
...and there's a couple of pillars of a new curriculum...and you can add financial education as well. Nothing short of a national disgrace.
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The importance of a credit score and work. More important that teaching inner city kids Shakespeare......

And we wonder why we have issues here

The lack of modern flair/fluidity to appear to all and adapt is....as you say....a national disgrace.

Not helped by the 4 years and done mentality to politics
 
Grays_1890 said:
The importance of a credit score and work. More important that teaching inner city kids Shakespeare......

And we wonder why we have issues here

The lack of modern flair/fluidity to appear to all and adapt is....as you say....a national disgrace.

Not helped by the 4 years and done mentality to politics
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Disagree. People arent robots. You need art and literature to teach them humanity, compassion, cohesion, respectful disagreement - all the core skills for life. Arts cant just be for private schools - that kills social mobility

Work skills become irrelevant in 2 seconds with the arrival of a new bit of tech. Human skills like independent thought and critical analysis are for life
 
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