A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.There are a few mistakes in this one: can you spot them? Would you like a factory in your neighbourhood?Would you like a factory in your neighbourhood?Factories are an essential part of life. Everyone knows that, and all people accept that. They engine economies around the world. The more factories can produce, the more goods can be purchased, and when good that are purchased, more money goes into circulation pushing up employment, living standards, and general well being. Basically, they are the foundation of capitalism. Yet, however much an essential part of the economy they are, they provoke a lot of heated feelings and suspicion. No-one, it seems, wants to live right next door to one, or have one right in the heart of their community. Not surprising, I wouldn’t want one on my door step!They are dirty! Plain and simple. They increase traffic in any area, due to raw materials and parts going in and the finished products coming out. Heavy vehicles are noisy, and when there are kids around, as any residential community has, they are dangerous. They cause a build up of traffic, and this brings noise. We live with noise enough on a daily basis, we don’t need more.On the one hand, factories can tarnish an otherwise idyllic community, especially one in a quiet suburb or in the countryside, but on the other they can invigorate a local economy, with jobs. However, most of the jobs will likely go skilled people coming into the area in pursuit of the employment opportunities afforded by the factory, so it cannot be taken for granted local people will gain any direct benefit.Further to employment, arguable though it is that it is beneficial to a local community, it also spawns “parasitic” support firms, such as machinery maintenance and cleaning services, parts manufacturers, raw materials supply depots and so on. A factory, cannot survive without outside supplies and support. This all contributes to a possible tarnishing of whatever peace the community had prior to a factory being built, and since these companies likely already exist elsewhere, there is still no guarantee that local people will benefit from anymore jobs.This is all a moot point however, since it is highly unlikely that a factory will ever be built in a residential area, for the very reasons stated above. All town planners know that factories should be located in areas far from residential housing, and suburban settlements, so as to not destroy the quiet ideal of any rural or county residential dwelling place. Towns are built around factories, not vice versa. And that is the way it should be, for woe betides any town planner that thinks otherwise!
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