Welcome to my blog Why Gibraltar!

I have decided to start blogging about what life is like in Gibraltar for all of us who have come here to work and live.

I decided to call the blog Why Gibraltar for various reasons. Mostly because Why? seems to be a question one asks very frequently in this place. Why do the police turn the traffic lights off and start directing traffic manually? Why is everyone honking when driving? Why do they clean the runway in the middle of morning rush hour everyday? Why have they spent the last year reforming the American Steps only to put cannons inside glass cages? Why is marriage allowance only paid out to the husbands in 2007? Why does no one appear to see the border issue as a problem that requires an immediate resolution? Why does everything seem to be so inconvenient for modern living?

This blog is not intended to criticize Gibraltar and the Gibraltarians but to pose questions and provide a forum for reasoning and raising concerns. There is an awful lot of tension in Gibraltar already between Giraltarians and Spanish and between Gibraltarians and the British - I do not intend to create more tension. SO PLEASE DO NOT FEEL OFFENDED! But we all agree to some extent that there are a lot of problems with Gibraltar and a lot of questions starting with Why that does not seems to have an apparent answer.

The frustration with Gibraltar that many of us feel who live here but are not from her I believe stem from an enormous lack of ambition and strive for development, a sense that it could be so much more, but is not. It is this I would like to get to the bottom with.