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Getting On With Brexit in the City That Hates It the Most
European connections helped power Bristol’s prosperous economy. Now its vibrant high-tech companies are struggling to plan ahead.
Boats sit moored on the harborside as a river ferry passes by in Bristol, U.K.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/BloombergBristol’s Temple Quay Market looks like the Britain that wanted to stay in the European Union.
Tech workers in jeans and loose shirts mingle with lawyers in dark suits at the weekly food bazaar, its stalls selling everything from Taiwanese-inspired pork belly bao to Greek lamb wraps and grilled-cheese sandwiches featuring woodland mushrooms. A few steps away, cyclists whiz by on a curving pedestrian bridge over the Avon River, on their way toward the revitalized city center.