Entry 17: Busy Bee Business (and Eastbank)

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Entry posted by 89James89 · June 4, 2019

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Firstly I'd like to apologise for the rather large gap in entries. Been a bit busy in real life and distracted with a couple of other games but am still plugging away at expanding this region! Now onto the actual replies.

hammysonata: Lol thanks, yes I suppose you could say he was a bit of a mogul but, given the education levels in Harrington you could argue that a beaver could make a decent businessman. Glad you like the MMP work, takes a while but well worth it.

Takingyouthere: Thanks, glad you like it. The streets can be a bit annoying to work with but I've learnt to just go with it all lol.

Entry 17: Busy Bee Business (and Eastbank)

So today were back in Harrington with a look at someone who's already been mentioned beforehand , Beekeeper Barry. Living outside of the small settlement of Needle Point, this is an old image of the Beekeeper and his beehives.

Well, you might remember that he choose to open his small plot of land up to the citizens of Harrington to give them a look at the exciting world of beekeeping! This, as it happens, was actually pretty well received (mainly because there was nothing else to actually do in the area but there we go). Anyway, over the years Barry's Beekeeping outgrew its small plot and moved to this much bigger meadow nearby to his original clearing.

Barry, always happy with his quiet little life outside of Needle Point, then realised that fame comes with a price as more and businesses flocked to take advantage of the beekeepers popularity.

So much so that Barry's nice quiet little home soon found itself neighbours too some rather noisy shops and then, as is normally the case people moved in and now Needle Point is much bigger and much louder.

Oh well, I suppose you can't have it all!

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Meanwhile, moving on from Barry and the price of fame were back in Eastbank where the mayor has made some not so popular findings. Still struggling to get any sort of industrial appeal and attraction in the growing town, the mayor was about to just give up, having already sold the unused industrial spaces to commercial businesses (which, is actually a pretty profitable place for the businesses given that the ferry link is just down the road from it).

Anyway, after a last ditch attempt too actually address the issue it came to the mayors attention that the tax rate for the industry sector was a whole lot higher than everyone else's and that the town's recent financial upturn was thanks in large part, too the hard working industries in the area. Before word of this was made public and afraid of being lynch mobbed (and actually feeling pretty bad about the whole situation), the mayor publically reduced the tax rates and announced that all the money that had been gathered from the unintentionally high tax rate would be used to fund this school.