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Originally Posted by garinda
A one in twenty seven chance of it happening seems a bit slim.
Although 20,000 students spending their dosh in the local pubs/shops, would be a very good thing for the area.
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You are right on there .... a university puts a hell of a lot of "dosh" into the local economy .... Queens University at Kingston, the oldest degree granting institution in English Canada, puts over 2 billion dollars annually into Kingston ... and the students, most of them well-heeled, spend over 250 million.
... there would be fewer problems with pub and store closings with all those students spending their cash.
An aside: Part of Queens campus is in England. Queens owns Herstmonceux castle in Sussex, donated by a grateful alumnus, Alfred Bader, who also gave Queens a couple of Rembrandts.
