How would you improve your community?
I live in a mainly bright town with many boringly similar but nice houses. There is a great deal of work locally. It’s mainly dual carriageways which until recently were in good order.
We have an indoor shopping centre which is not full of empty shops, and an old fashioned high street which whilst not great is mainly full of shops. The parks are lovely, there a many footpaths reducing the need to drive. All the big supermarkets, local shops and post offices everywhere, and more car parks than we know what to do with.
If you use a mobility scooter in Redditch you can get anywhere on the footpaths including to a very nice lake.
We have a cinema, bowling alley, restaurants, lovely pubs, and a theatre. You could not wish for more.
Yet it voted itself the unhappiest town in England!
This town really stands for having no clue how lucky you are! forty minutes in a car or on a train, from our thriving local station, and you’re in Birmingham seeing all the big shows, all the big names, or at the NEC with the variety of fun that offers.
In fairness little of that helps people with low incomes, yet they could live somewhere much worse.
The only part of the town I can’t settle with is that there is no sense of connection. I know some lovely people, especially at my supermarket, but there is nothing else. Front doors close with a bang and stay closed. It’s sad.
Attitude is everything
Luck is a mindset. Happiness is not based on money. Life is about who you are. You are the creator. Look on the bright side. Choose happiness. It changes everything.
If you let it.
Best love
Amorah-Deb
Deb Hawken - Amorah 