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Related: About this forumHow a community of UK rural people are doing stuff for themselves
We Bought The Abandoned Local Pub
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How a community of UK rural people are doing stuff for themselves (Original Post)
OnDoutside
Apr 2024
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bucolic_frolic
(48,498 posts)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
(20,680 posts)3. Here in Ireland the idea of the community shop is popular, and maybe a model that they could use in the US
niyad
(122,035 posts)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.