Yeah, it’s complicated. It’s about friendships, it’s about jobs, it’s about nightlife and events and transport, …
I work for a big tech employer in Coventry. We’d be very happy if some of the London/South-East based employees wanted to move here. And we’re within easy commuting distance of a number of towns and villages as well as the city itself. And we’re only an hour from London on the train - hardly the back of beyond.
If people actually want to move, it is perfectly possible for them to do so right now. If they don’t, for any one of a number of reasons, it is their choice. But it is very naive to imagine that Government subsidies would help when simple economics already provides a subsidy worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
My employers office is in London, I visit a few times a month and the rest of the time I work at home in the northwest. Really hit the jackpot of jobs for myself. 1hr 47mins to London on the west coast mainline. When I visit I can get the 6.30am train and be at the office before 9
There are massive incentives to move. You can get the same house for less than half the price of a London house all over the country.
If that vast financial incentive doesn’t make people move out of London then Government subsidies never will.
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Yeah, it’s complicated. It’s about friendships, it’s about jobs, it’s about nightlife and events and transport, …
I work for a big tech employer in Coventry. We’d be very happy if some of the London/South-East based employees wanted to move here. And we’re within easy commuting distance of a number of towns and villages as well as the city itself. And we’re only an hour from London on the train - hardly the back of beyond.
If people actually want to move, it is perfectly possible for them to do so right now. If they don’t, for any one of a number of reasons, it is their choice. But it is very naive to imagine that Government subsidies would help when simple economics already provides a subsidy worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
My employers office is in London, I visit a few times a month and the rest of the time I work at home in the northwest. Really hit the jackpot of jobs for myself. 1hr 47mins to London on the west coast mainline. When I visit I can get the 6.30am train and be at the office before 9
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