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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by madaxe_again on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:56AM (#50368373)
This’ll cheer you up: Northampton is used as a case study for a successful post-industrial town. Below average unemployment, above average services and citizen satisfaction.

And it’s true. Northampton is doing pretty great compared to a majority of the U.K.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by cucumber3732842 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:26PM (#50373860)
>This’ll cheer you up: Northampton is used as a case study for a successful post-industrial town.

That same bent of evil people came to my town to peddle some "looks good from my ivory tower" type municipal trash policy that incentivize all the wrong things. They cited an adjacent town that adopted their stuff and is renown locally for its filth as a "success story". The public's reaction was literally "hahahaha, oh wait you're serious, hahahahahahahahahah". It was glorious. The city council is not likely to adopt it at this point.

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