Reply to: Independence for London - thickos need not apply

[The Plantswoman]

The top ten places in England people have fled from...



Cant quite put my finger on why people would be keen to leave these areas

I would imagine the people moving out to Essex are of a very different demographic to the ones flocking to Devon and Somerset.

White working class from the East End.

BBC did a documentary about how such people had been marginalised in places like Newham a few months back.

It was a real eye opener & this being the BBC, it was the sanitised version.

I would imagine the reality is even more colourful.

[DimPrawn]

The top ten places in England people have fled from...



Cant quite put my finger on why people would be keen to leave these areas

Suity lives/has lived/has worked there?

[Flashman]

The top ten places in England people have fled from...

Wish you were here? The top 10 places here people most want to live in the UK are revealed (and why people are fleeing London)  | Daily Mail Online

1. Newham (London)
2. Brent (London)
3. Luton
4. Waltham Forest (London)
5. Blackburn with Darwen
6. Ealing (London)
7. Bradford
8. Haringey (London)
9. Kingston upon Hull
10. Boston

....The ONS figures do not include people coming from, or moving to, foreign countries. But they do identify the areas of the UK that people have been keen to move out of...

Cant quite put my finger on why people would be keen to leave these areas

[Flashman]

Even back in the 1990s everyone from up North who graduated went to London. I applied for loads of jobs around the Manchester area and there was nothing apart from Oracle at the time and they were only pretending to Uni graduates. I went down to London before I graduated for an IT job and got the job conditionally based on my grades. The the City and big fat contractor rates, where you got treated like dirt but at least you were compensated with dosh.

London was expensive back then but it was at least livable. Nowadays...

[sbakoola]

Even back in the 1990s everyone from up North who graduated went to London

Even back in the 1990s everyone from up North who graduated went to London. I applied for loads of jobs around the Manchester area and there was nothing apart from Oracle at the time and they were only pretending to Uni graduates. I went down to London before I graduated for an IT job and got the job conditionally based on my grades. The the City and big fat contractor rates, where you got treated like dirt but at least you were compensated with dosh.

[The Plantswoman]

You will be on your knees begging to work within this utopia when the last few overpaying contracts die out in the regions. London is the only thing left that's actually world class in the UK.

Why is that going to happen?

[blackeye]

Good stuff.

Hopefully all the Wankerati will move back there then.

The ones that impose their metropolitan chauvinism on us local proles by rebranding our local market town as some kind of chi-chi, artisan capital of the South West .

They open trendy, progressive schools and put signs up declaring us s Frack Free Zone.

Under whose remit?

Complain about it and you'll get the stock answer of how the town was a quiet little backwater before the Londoners moved in.

Personally, I prefer a quiet backwater to what we have now full of yappy women called Xanthe running vintage clothes emporia and the like.

You will be on your knees begging to work within this utopia when the last few overpaying contracts die out in the regions. London is the only thing left that's actually world class in the UK.

[Mordac]

You don't need a degree to negotiate with agents. Some level of common sense and non-gullibility will usually suffice.

That's you buggered then.

[The Plantswoman]

That's inneresting....

Got to keep you on your toes

[greenlake]

Personally, I prefer a quiet backwater to what we have now full of yappy women called Xanthe running vintage clothes emporia and the like.

Barbour clad country types will be replaced by the yapping of women with names like Xanthe and Philomena

That's inneresting....

[shaunbhoy]

Indeed. Make money in a rich economy, retire to a poor one with your loot.
That's the secret of happiness.

The real secret of happiness would be to retire somewhere devoid of anally-retentive little duckfarts like you.

[The Plantswoman]

Good stuff.

Hopefully all the Wankerati will move back there then.

The ones that impose their metropolitan chauvinism on us local proles by rebranding our local market town as some kind of chi-chi, artisan capital of the South West .

They open trendy, progressive schools and put signs up declaring us s Frack Free Zone.

Under whose remit?

Complain about it and you'll get the stock answer of how the town was a quiet little backwater before the Londoners moved in.

Personally, I prefer a quiet backwater to what we have now full of yappy women called Xanthe running vintage clothes emporia and the like.

[GB9]

I note, with interest, that Southern Portugal comes in at a low 18%. When are you off again?

Portugal would have been 43% but they took the survey while Cretin was there......

[northernladuk]

I note, with interest, that Southern Portugal comes in at a low 18%. When are you off again?

Now that explains a lot!!

[darmstadt]

yeah because London's economy is all coffee shops and takeaways

Ah but if you were to believe half the posters on here...