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‘Local’?

Isn’t that everything?

You need your own village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it{c}

You could argue that, on a small island like St Helena, everything is ‘local’, but you’d be wrong…

Explain?

St Helena is only 16 by 8 kilometres, or 121 km² (see our page How Small Is St Helena? to understand this better), and it takes under an hour to drive from one tip to the other{1}, so surely everything could be considered as ‘local’? And yet, even within such a tiny area (1/13 the size of Greater London{2}, for example) local places have local ‘personalities’:

Most of these differences are not immediately apparent. After you’ve lived here for a while you learn to spot where people live, or were brought up, by the way they behave. All this on 16 by 8 kilometres, or 121 km² (see our page How Small Is St Helena? to understand this better)!

So if you advertise a dance in Blue Hill, you can be reasonably sure that most of the people who turn up will have travelled fewer than 3Km. This is not because of drink-driving restrictions{3}. It’s just that your event will be seen as a local event and non-locals, though doubtless no less welcome, feel it is not for them.

The editor of this website was once told by someone living in Longwood that she felt isolated from her roots; she had grown up in New Ground in St Pauls, just 4Km away…

Where people live

LOL

Credits:
{a} Ed Thorpe{b} St Helena News (group){c} Cesare Pavese

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Footnotes:
{1} Though you’d need a 4-wheel drive - the roads don’t stretch that far.{2} Though with only 1/1,900 of the population!{3} Which are apparently not enforced outside the Jamestown and Half Tree Hollow areas.

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