[Info-vax] OT: What happened to the Malborough-Shrewsbury area ?

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In article <5d1450b5-d8da-4494-90ed-9b622a5762fd at googlegroups.com>, Ian Miller <gxys at uk2.net> writes:
>On Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:26:53 PM UTC+1, brendan welch wrote:
>> On 10/24/2013 2:47 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
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>> > The Malborough-Shrewsbury area used to be a hotbed for the computer
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>> > industry with a lot o R&D done there, Digital, and a whole BUNCH of
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>> > other companies.
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>> > They seem to be all gone now. And even Intel is abandonning the old DEC
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>> > FAB at Hudson.
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>> > Has this be a big economic blow to the area ? Or was the area diverse
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>> > enough to widthstand the gradual disapearance of the computer industry ?
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>> > What has sustained the area since then ?
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>> One answer, of perhaps many.
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>> The Boston Globe newspaper has a section on Thursdays
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>> called Globe West.  A large lead article in today's
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>> is entitled "Making room for biotech in Marlborough".
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>> 30% of the city's commercial real estate activity last year
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>> came from the life-science sector.
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>Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, UK 

Enough about those English in-breds sucking off of the British commoners.

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