{"id":51250,"date":"2017-04-07T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-kirkcaldy-fife-a-beautiful-bay-and-an-excellent-farmers-market\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T22:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:35:52","slug":"lets-move-to-kirkcaldy-fife-a-beautiful-bay-and-an-excellent-farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-kirkcaldy-fife-a-beautiful-bay-and-an-excellent-farmers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Kirkcaldy, Fife: a beautiful bay and an excellent farmers\u2019 market"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis should be boom time for Adam Smith\u2019s home town. However\u2026What\u2019s going for it? Were Adam Smith to be reincarnated here in his home town (as a till-worker at Lidl, perhaps) he might come to different conclusions about the free market. The wealth of nations is in short supply in Kirkcaldy today: the hidden hand of capitalism is hidden indeed and the trickle-down of good fortune to those in need is more of a dribble. Kirkcaldy has not had a good half-century or so. Its raisons d\u2019\u00eatre (linen, whaling and linoleum) are, these days, rather lacking in \u201c\u00eatre\u201d. Yet the town has much going for it: its excellent farmers\u2019 market, for example, or its jazzed-up centre, to say nothing of its natural assets \u2013 a beautiful sweeping bay, the craggy castle at Ravenscraig and a commutable position halfway between Edinburgh and the prettiest stretch of the Fife coast. It should be booming. But then, as Mr Smith might conclude, theory is not always borne out in reality.The case against The waterfront needs some love: currently a dual carriageway fronts less than jovial postwar architecture. Local councillor Neil Crooks has pledged palm trees to bring a touch of Miami. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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This should be boom time for Adam Smith\u2019s home town. However\u2026What\u2019s going for it? 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