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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostActually you are fine cycling in most areas.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostIndeed. The average wage in London is supposed to be £35k? Maybe all of London is full of people who own their own accommodation.Comment
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View PostCycling round your gated community doesn't count."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostI cycle on the roads and I don't live in a gated community.Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostI cycle on the roads and I don't live in a gated community.
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Commuted in from Brookmans park when I lived in that area. 28 mins to Liverpool St on a slow day.
Potter bar up the road was very reasonable in house purchase terms, and 20 mins on the fast to Liverpool St.Comment
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Random ramble.
When I moved to London in 2001 from Birmingham (single and mid-20s) it was a no-brainer as neither Birmingham or Manchester could compete with it on many levels.
My starting salary was £37k back then and it was not enough.
15 years on and I would seriously consider not moving to London at all unless it was a career changing move.
I still live in the outer suburbs of London but having spent the past 7 months in Manchester working on a contract I can't see London's appeal at the moment. Even compared to 2001 it is even more vastly overcrowded and Brum, Manc can offer 95% of what London gives you.
The one thing London still holds is a much higher proportion of £150k+ jobs.
People smirk at rebalancing away from London but I think it has been progressing steadily since 2011 and I can't see it slowing down.Comment
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Originally posted by Bluenose View PostRandom ramble.
When I moved to London in 2001 from Birmingham (single and mid-20s) it was a no-brainer as neither Birmingham or Manchester could compete with it on many levels.
My starting salary was £37k back then and it was not enough.
15 years on and I would seriously consider not moving to London at all unless it was a career changing move.
I still live in the outer suburbs of London but having spent the past 7 months in Manchester working on a contract I can't see London's appeal at the moment. Even compared to 2001 it is even more vastly overcrowded and Brum, Manc can offer 95% of what London gives you.
The one thing London still holds is a much higher proportion of £150k+ jobs.
People smirk at rebalancing away from London but I think it has been progressing steadily since 2011 and I can't see it slowing down.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostI can see offshoring going the full circle and London firms doing what American ones do and using cheaper resource elsewhere in the same country. While it's more expensive than another country, you get all the benefits of a single country of operation - timezone, working hours, language, legal, no multinational faffing around, etc.
Eastern Europe has loads of cheap resource!Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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