How a community of UK rural people are doing stuff for themselves

[OnDoutside]

We Bought The Abandoned Local Pub

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Hope they make a go of it and it becomes a model for other communities

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!

[OnDoutside]

3. Here in Ireland the idea of the community shop is popular, and maybe a model that they could use in the US

https://courtmacsherry.ie/listing/courtmacsherry-community-shop/

[niyad]

2. I would very much like to see the whole thing, but the jerky,

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