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Is the Isle of Man fit for purpose? Is it really providing the services required? Somehow it seems not.

The Steam Packet provide a ferry service that can best be described as poor. Booking online appears to be a random gamble as regards pricing with no apparent logic to the theory behind the practice. The airport is hardly a modern facility and flight destinations are limited. Companies seem to come and go regularly. Surely for an offshore financial operation, good transport links are a prime requisite?

As regards the local infrastructure..................

The simple fact is that the financial sector has had to be shoehorned into a decaying former holiday resort.

Poor quality roads, inadequate parking virtually everywhere.

Try getting a tradesman to actually turn up and do a job.

The shopping experience is very limited and the prices are ludicrous.

Telecommunications are not as the providing companies like to believe, leading edge.

There are few quality restaurants.

As for housing, the current ethos requires the construction of unimaginative, eastern block style apartment blocks with prices that bear no relation to value or quality.

Worth repeating - The simple fact is that the financial sector has had to be shoehorned into a decaying former holiday resort.

Some questions.................

Is there any other financial centre in the whole world where getting a Financial Times is a such a gamble dependant on weather, local delivery and the ability of the shop to actually open on time and be adequately staffed?

If it is such a wonderful place to live and work in, why are there always so many unfilled vacancies in the financial and allied areas?