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How a community of UK rural people are doing stuff for themselves (Original Post) OnDoutside Apr 2 OP
Hope they make a go of it and it becomes a model for other communities bucolic_frolic Apr 2 #1
Here in Ireland the idea of the community shop is popular, and maybe a model that they could use in the US OnDoutside Apr 4 #3
I would very much like to see the whole thing, but the jerky, niyad Apr 2 #2

bucolic_frolic

(43,614 posts)
1. Hope they make a go of it and it becomes a model for other communities
Tue Apr 2, 2024, 06:12 PM
Apr 2

In the US private equity restaurant management companies would be buying up such and making a chain of restaurants. Ran into one of those and was surprised to learn they own many old restaurants for 50 miles around!

niyad

(114,146 posts)
2. I would very much like to see the whole thing, but the jerky,
Tue Apr 2, 2024, 06:35 PM
Apr 2

continuous movement of the camera, and the breathless way the guy speaks, renders it painfully unwatchable.

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