• mark@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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