What's happened to Glastonbury (town - not festival)

Question

We go to Glastonbury (town) about twice a year, for a bit of pampering and healing etc. and normally there are some good therapists and decent accommodation if you book ahead as it's normally full in the summer. Having not been for about a year I contacted the reflexologist, and reiki healer, and tarot reader we normally see and all of them have moved out of Glastonbury, are practicing outside or in Wells or somewhere. When I to book hotels even the George and Pilgrim was booked and offering reasonable rates! Has something happened to Glastonbury to make people move out or not go there any more that I don't know about???

Answer 1

i live in glastonbury and the business rates are probably some of the most appaling in the south west.... even though wells is a bigger place there is more industry and more businesses so the rates for rental in premises seem to be cheaper.. plus glastonbury is ran by the masonic hall brothers who now seem to want to quash the smaller individual businesses and buy up most of the properties for furure developement ... the place still has its niceness but there is an undercurrent of governing systematic control and conformity...