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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
If you are looking for one reason above all others for the decline in the borough, it is that...
White Flight.
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Spot on -though it's probably politically incorrect to be so candid (no pun on white intended!)
I don't count myself as my own movement was more circumstancial.
But in the past 10 years: My parents have sold up and de-camped to Tenerife; my sister, brother-in-law and their 3 children have emigrated to New Zealand; his sister and her family moved there 2 years ago and my cousin and her family also moved to NZ 6 years ago....apart from my parents who are retired, they are all working professionals whose children are now in higher education...what a loss to the Accy and to the UK in general...this is the true extent of the brain drain -i don't believe my family is exceptional in this respect.