[garinda]

It's nothing to do with pride.

There's no one more passionately proud to have roots in this area, thanks to the many generations of my family who lived and worked here before me, but sadly pride doesn't fill an empty kid's belly.

It's all well and good pontificating about what we'd like to see, but if you're a shopkeeper, and what you're selling is either too expensive for people to buy, or not what they want to buy, then that shopkeeper's children are going to have empty bellies.

Simple free market economics,

Supply and demand.