Firstly I would like to thank Infiltrator for the link, much appreciated and very useful – book now ordered from Amazon. Thanks also to everyone else for their positive and not so positive comments, always makes for good healthy discussion. This is my first time using one of these forums and I appreciate that I obviously didn’t word my initial post well aka Trout’s request for clarification, something I tried to do with my subsequent one. I have tried to clarify as best I can but I will add there is no political organisational involvement nor is it Shetland specific. I, like everyone else, can Google “Shetland regeneration†and be presented with a wheen of information about Oil and Gas, diversity in fishing, improved transportation links to the Scottish mainland etc. but the people who have the best knowledge and understanding of what works and doesn’t are the people who live here and have been through it. Having moved here recently and seen how valuable a website Shetlink is I thought this forum would be a good and interesting medium to use to ask local people for their opinions. From existing posts it is clear that not everyone thinks Shetland has adapted. I am not asking for hard facts, I am just interested in people’s general experiences and opinions good and bad. There is no malice or conspiracy in my questions but I understand and respect each individual’s decision to partake or not.
