Ourbroath
Sometimes picking something to write about and post on social media can be daunting and even though you have so many ideas you don’t exactly know where the starting point is.
I decided to write and post about the place where I call home and the place that made me… well me! My place of inspiration.
I moved to Arbroath a few years back, OK maybe more than a few years but for this blog post we will stick to a few. My parents decided to move back to the fishing town as my mother was originally from there and her family were still here so this was a better place than any to call “home”.
Growing up here wasn’t so bad and I think I managed to have a pretty great childhood. We would go on adventures daily to the scenic cliffs, the town center and even find ourselves playing in the surrounding fields (and stealing a berry or two).
We would eagerly spend our pocket money we had earned each week on something from the local shops in town and still even manage to buy a bag of chips, all for £2!
Get @DigitallyDevine’s stories in your inbox
Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer.
I remember the town being so vibrant and busy every day, always full of people chatting, hugging and a place where family and friends would bump into each other and catch up.
Then the recession hit in 2008 and it was all change. More shops were closing than opening, big businesses were going out of business and there was really nothing to stay in Arbroath for so people went to neighboring cities to shop or online.
It was as though a dark cloud covered the town.
It was a downward spiral from then on as shops closed this put people out of work, this then caused people to struggle to make ends meet and stopped them shopping locally as they had to source cheaper alternatives.
Luckily, we are now 10 years past the recession and back to a really exciting time where people want to be a community again, they want to shop local and they want to support their local towns.
The dark cloud has gone.
We have now entered into a time where we again have so much on our doorsteps, so I wanted to use this platform to be a center of knowledge, ideas and inspiration of things to do in “OURBROATH” and show off what this little town is really made of!
