re: #13 iossarian

Nice place to grow up! Scenery-wise anyway…

Oh yes! But “you can’t eat the scenery” as they say in Local Hero
Actually the employment situation is much better there now than when I was a kid - but the price of houses has become ludicrous due to second-home ownership so people on a normal wage are priced out

That you can hang on Maggie - well at least in part
(Geology or at least geography still has an effect, the Lakes is a small area of a small crowded island)