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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Last year 250,000 people left London for places like Birmingham. Other places people fled to were : Brighton and others in the link below.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2013-12-03/thinking-of-leaving-london-heres-where-most-end-up/
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Most people left one busy city to others. I thought people might move to places like the Lake District?

Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Where people choose to move to depends on where there's a means by which they can earn a living, I would assume. Unless they're retiring or setting themselves up with an online business etc.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Absolutely - people are indeed very lucky if they are able to live in an area of natural beauty and still be within striking distance of decent work

Of course with more and more of us working from home as I do then this does allow a greater choice of decent areas in which to live so long as those places have decent speed broadband

I could do my job from almost anywhere in England and Wales so I'm really very fortunate Very Happy

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Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

I don't blame them to be honest, London is the last place I'd want to live.

Schizoidman · Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Posts: 1140 Location: Rural West Sussex

I don't know where this ridiculous article (sponsored by estate agents no doubt) gets its figure of 250,000 from. The accompanying statistics show that, apart from about 8,000 Londoners moving to Manchester and Birmingham, the rest (again only a few thousand) are merely moving to the outer suburbs in Essex, Herts and Surrey, which has always been the pattern anyway. It's a non-piece of news.

I agree that in the future, with improved technology and broadband speeds, more and more people will be working from home so don't have to live in the cities (so why are we having to spend £45 billion on the useless HS2?).

Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Schizoidman · Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Posts: 1140 Location: Rural West Sussex

Or the other way around of course. But why spend £45 billion just to get from say London to Leeds 15 minutes quicker (and destroy a lot of countryside)?

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I'm a great supporter of our railway system but I think that HS2 will prove to be a huge mistake - as Schiz says the saving in time will be minimal and experience in other countries in Europe suggests that such projects encourage far more people to travel to the capital rather than the reverse

The money would be much better spent updating and improving existing lines and possibly subsidising fares Smile

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