We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
There is a young German engineer at the company I used to work for (I'm retired now), who is there just for a couple of months and he was telling me that following the demolition of the wall 30 years ago, the German government spent the next 25 years pouring money into the area to upgrade and modernise. There are now modern state of the art companies that have moved into the eastern section and modern housing which is attracting a movement of people into that area.
Apparently, the problem of this workforce drain to the east is so great that they are getting worried about workers leaving companies in the Western section and moving east due to low rents and well paid jobs waiting for them.
The title is a bit flippant I admit, but it does highlight a problem that the Germans are experiencing at the moment.
Apparently, the problem of this workforce drain to the east is so great that they are getting worried about workers leaving companies in the Western section and moving east due to low rents and well paid jobs waiting for them.
The title is a bit flippant I admit, but it does highlight a problem that the Germans are experiencing at the moment.
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 7
|
By:
Why's it a problem? It's one Germany, one Berlin. As in every major city there will be periods when certain areas and postcodes become "trendy" or hotspots for certain industries and skills. It's like the residents of Fleet Street threatening to build a wall when the press started moving to Wapping.
|
|
By:
nobody lives in fleet street
|
|
By:
Well ok, all the cafe owners etc whose business was no doubt hampered by the move.
|
|
By:
get them to let in another million then build a wall around all of them
|
|
By:
One of the most nonsensical threads of all time.
|
|
By:
I have a better solution. Why not just make two countries? East Germany and West Germany? Make people speak Mandarin in one and Korean in the other. Ban german. Then tell me how many want to move to East Germany. Dont waste money building a wall.
|
|
By:
No problem - the Mexicans will pay for it!
|