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19/05/2008, 11:34 Hoddy Joined on 23/08/2004 .....Forum Moderator..... NW Leics/SE Dordogne Posts 2,189 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... Not at all John+1. The villages which lie in the flight path have more problems than those alongside it. Hoddy    Report

19/05/2008, 12:34 Nell Joined on 14/08/2007 24 Posts 138 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France...  Dick Smith wrote: Quite. I get a bit fed up with the people who buy houses next to circuits and then expect the circuit to be closed down to suit them. The circut is not up and runnning yet, so the people you get a bit fed up with, Don't exist....    Report

19/05/2008, 12:41 Dick Smith Joined on 23/08/2004 Surrey and Manche (Pays Mortainais) Posts 8,914 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... Brands Hatch doesn't exist! Blimey - I've been part of a mass hallucination since 1964! Regards Dick Smith Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground    Report

19/05/2008, 15:10 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot (46) Posts 7,793 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... British ex-pat's Dordogne race track plans irk French neighbours Clair Real Virtual French Person    Report

19/05/2008, 15:44 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,960 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... Oh Clair, thanks for the warning.  I now know which area to avoid as I go about my househunting. The very thought of the track is horrible and, making no apologies for my own in-built prejudices, the people look horrible as well!    Report

19/05/2008, 16:09 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot (46) Posts 7,793 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France...  sweet 17 wrote: ... making no apologies for my own in-built prejudices, the people look horrible as well! Oh! you're harsh!! Clair Real Virtual French Person    Report

27/05/2008, 9:22 f1steveuk Joined on 29/03/2007 Belves, Dordogne and Sussex Posts 298 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France...  sweet 17 wrote: The very thought of the track is horrible and, making no apologies for my own in-built prejudices, the people look horrible as well! The Booker-Careys are friends of mine, and they are very very nice people! The idea for the track was actually to use an area destroyed by a storm and bring some very much needed commerce into an area slowly dying. The plans include much much more than just a track (not for racing, and not for racing cars par se, which would be silenced), so just ignore the hotel, the equistrian centre, health spa etc etc, and that 90% of the staff will be locals, who are desperate for work Oh and ignore the fact that 90% of the objectors are ex pat Brit's, not the local French, and of those, 75% moved there AFTER the plans were announced................................ "Some scoundrel has taken the cork for my lunch" W.C Fields    Report

27/05/2008, 11:11 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,960 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... Oops, sorry!  Perhaps I shouldn't have been so quick to jump to conclusions.  I did just think that if a race track was being built near me, I'd be cross as hell! Mind you, I think the departmental road just outside our house, is a race track at times.  At least, the traffic doesn't half go at a lick day and night.    Report

27/05/2008, 11:57 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 W of Cahors (46) Posts 4,151 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France...  cooperlola wrote: Some of us would pay good money to have a circuit on our doorstep. Some did didn't they My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

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