Imagine the recession never happened, that Britain is booming. A Britain with new industries that are sources of fabulous wealth without scarring the landscape or polluting the environment; no crises, no widespread poverty; no racial tension; no hardcore unemployment-and a population with money in its pockets - in short, a Britain with a golden future. For one city in the United Kingdom this pipe-dream seems to be coming true. No city in the British Isles has seen such a transformation of its fortunes as Aberdeen. North Sea oil has pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the granite city and has generated a quality of life for its inhabitants that is the envy of the rest of the country. How have the Aberdonians coped with this new phenomenon on their door-steps? Open Space goes to the oil capital of Europe to find out.