another one for the data-nerds
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20036/performance_and_statistics/1012/edinburgh_by_numbers
fascinating, actually.
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Edinburgh by numbers
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Posted 11 years ago #
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The Parks statistic is something that Edinburgh can be proud of.
I do wish they had kept the colour key for Edinburgh consistent across all charts when comparing with other cities though. Minor niggle.
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10.3 Carbon dioxide emissions....Edinburgh at 3 megatonnes for 0.48 megainhabitants is actually ahead of Birmingham (5.7 megatonnes for 1.08 megainhabitants) on a per capita basis; Edinburgh 6.25 tonnes per citizen vs Birmingham 5.28 tonnes per citizen.
4.6 Only 442 French workers in the Burgh? Hardly enough to form a batallion.
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IWRATS what's the emissions source breakdown of Edinburgh vs. Birmingham?
Scotland often gets beaten for higher household per-capita emissions than the southeast of England, without correction for the colder climate and longer, darker winter nights.
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4.6 Only 442 French workers in the Burgh? Hardly enough to form a batallion.
Seems incredibly low. Also, more Italians than Irish?
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And how there are more Spanish people working in Edinburgh than Polish, but weirdly the Spanish don't appear to be "stealing our jobs"?
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And how there are more Spanish people working in Edinburgh than Polish, but weirdly the Spanish don't appear to be "stealing our jobs"?
I had a Spanish ex-girlfriend who, when the EU was expanded, complained about Eastern Europeans taking the jobs of Spanish people in Edinburgh.
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Given the nature of Edinburgh's economy, there are always plenty of "casual" jobs going - i.e. bar work, hotels, restuarants, festival work, temping for financial services etc. And there's alwaysbeen in my memory substantial pool of transient labour from different countries "passing through". It was Australian backpackers for a while who seemed to be working behing every Irish bar in town (back when every other bar in town seemed to be an Irish bar) but apparently it no longer became so profitable/affordable for them to leave Australia when the economic boom caused the Dollarydoo to appreciate. Apparently Irish bars are also no longer as trendy as hipster bars with bare wooden surfaces, burgers served on bits of slate and lots of "American style IPA" on offer. There's certainly a lot of Spaniards around just now, you can tell them easily as they can be heard chatting from 2 or 3 blocks away and they always have better looking picnics than your typical Meadows student barbecue.
I suppose as time passes, different groups of people come and go, having left their home countries for whatever reason (mainly economic) and ended up in Edinburgh given the ease of picking up work in a nice city.
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"a lot of Spaniards around just now, you can tell them easily"
The girls still sport mullets too. Though there is, oddly, no word for 'mullet' in Spanish.
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"IWRATS what's the emissions source breakdown of Edinburgh vs. Birmingham?"
Best attempt to read the graph without axes;
Mbra
Industrial 40%
Domestic 30%
Transport 30%Brum
Industrial 40%
Domestic 35%
Transport 25%Posted 11 years ago #
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