Bruce County

Country Life

By Sam ⋅ September 30, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Country Life is not all Peaches and Cream

This summer, as I drove around Grey, Bruce, and Huron County one of the things that struck me was the lack of abject poverty.  In fact, the lack of anything that looked like poverty. 

There are large ‘factory’ farms, the traditional ‘mixed’ farm seems to have almost disappeared.  You can argue the benefits of either side of the question.  Personally I think there’s room for both. 

Admittedly we tend to focus on the upside of life in the country.  And just in this part of Ontario.  In England things aren’t so rosy. 

This video of Show of Hands singing Country Life gives us a glimpse into the darker side of living in the country in the UK. and helps explain why so many Brits are buying property overseas.

Thanks to Charlie at Yahoo 360 for posting it.

I spend a lot of my time living in the country in the south of France and there’s a downside here as well.  The market for French wine is shrinking, even among the French, and vines are being pulled out.  So far no one seems to have articulated any kind of sustainable agrilcultural plan to replace wine making as the main source of income in the Corbieres, where I live.   The government focus is now on tourism which will create service jobs, notoriously low paying. Still, the kinds of problems highlighted in the video don’t exist here.  At least not in the country. 

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