Super commuters

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5187096.stm

Fed up with over-priced cities and overcrowded trains? The new breed of commuters are going to fly into work from their homes in Spain and eastern Europe, claims a trendspotting report.

When you think of the commuter belt around London you don't immediately think of Barcelona, Marrakech and Tallinn.

But a future-gazing report suggests that we could see a new type of commuting - where large numbers of people work in the UK but live overseas.

High house prices, cheap flights, flexible working hours and e-mail and the internet making it easier to work from home are all set to combine to create a new breed of long-distance commuter.

By 2016, there will be 1.5 million people working in the United Kingdom but living overseas, using Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted as commuter terminals - predicts a report from the Future Forum, set up by travel firm Thomson.

So instead of grinding into work on packed commuter trains, people will be looking for a better quality of life in accessible, more affordable overseas cities, working in jobs where they don't have to be in the office each morning.


Bollox, the jobs will move overseas, to India and China. The Brits will be commuting to ASDA and B&Q.

HTH

 

[ratewhore]

hmm, fly into stansted, park on the M11 - nice...

 

[Badgers Armpit]

I read this earlier & it got me thinking. I'll be commuting into Waterloo, which will take around 1hr20m. I could go live in France, get the Eurostar & still have a similar commute! Plus be closer to a cheap & extensive supply of vino!

 

[BlasterBates]

Hang on this is old hat, ....now how many of you have commuted on a weekly basis to Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Brussels

Well this is exactly the same but in reverse.

 

[bogeyman]

Fed up with over-priced cities and overcrowded trains? The new breed of computers are going to fly into work from their homes in Spain and eastern Europe, claims a trainspotting report.

When you think of the computer belt around London you don't immediately think of Barcelona, Marrakech and Tallinn.

But a navel-gazing report suggests that we could see a new type of computing - where large numbers of people work in the UK but live overseas and don't breath any air.

High house prices, cheap flights, Cocaine-laden hotdogs and flexible working hours and e-mail and that Interweb thing making it easier to work from home are all set to combine to create a new breed of long-distance computer.

By 2016, there will be 1.5 million people working in the United Kingdom but living overseas, using Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted as computer terminals and vast public urinals - predicts a report from the ****knows Forum, set up by travel firm Thomson.

So instead of grinding into work on packed computer trains, people will be looking for a better quality of life in accessible, more affordable overseas cities, working in jobs where they don't have to know what the feck they're doing.




Makes as much sense, doesn't it? Journalists? I've sh1t 'em.

 

[The Lone Gunman]

Hang on this is old hat, ....now how many of you have commuted on a weekly basis to Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Brussels

Well this is exactly the same but in reverse.

Munich, Ulm, Brussels, Heidelberg and ....ermmmm Hull.

 

[Xena]

I used to commute to Slough.

 

[bogeyman]

I used to commute to Slough.

There are no words

 

[AlfredJPruffock]

There are no words

My only reaction was that at least it wasnt Basingstoke.

 

[TwoWolves]

Commuting by flying-pig more like.

What do these idiot journalists think planes run-on?