On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:39:58 -0000, "Capitol"
wrote:


Mike Mitchell wrote in message ...


But it's much more
difficult to persuade thousands of families to move, with all the
concommitant issues of work, relatives, roots, schooling, friends to
take account of.


Not difficult at all. It was done in the 1950's, they were called "new
Towns" and moved many thousands of mainly young people from overcrowded
urban conditions to rural areas where work was made available.

And then the factories closed, businesses were privatised, people lost
their jobs, houses were repossessed, and High Street shops closed
down.

Then we were
stupid enough to build more council houses in the urban areas and provide
cheap taxpayer funded transport, surprise, surprise, you get the overcrowded
urban living conditions of today.

Where else would you have built them? On greenfield sites miles from
anywhere? Which would have *required* cheap taxpayer funded transport
to move the workers to where the factories were - in urban areas -
since the occupiers of those homes would patently have been unable to
buy cars.

MM