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Stop letting home grown talent disappear "up country"!

Being a Cornish school leaver some twenty years ago there was little opportunity for good local (not tourism based) jobs, now there are even fewer. The district council hubs have disappeared as well as smaller NHS hubs, they have all moved to the bigger towns in Cornwall. Living in North Cornwall there is virtually nothing here for youngsters to aspire to, to hope that they can remain in their local communities. They are effectively forced to leave the county, all of their friends and other social relationships just so that they can get jobs. Those that stay in the local community can look forward to tourism related work, that, according to aggrieved second home owners comments on social media during the lockdown, they should be grateful for. Should they be grateful for low paid, low skilled, seasonal jobs that hold no security for them? Please, please, please can we create a county with good jobs for local people in their own locality and stop letting our own home grown talent leave needlessly.

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