No sh*t sherlock award - young people move to London says study

chucknorris

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I was 18 I had an offer to go to London. My friend's dad bought her a flat on the corner of Harley Street and she needed somebody to go with her, live with her, etc. My parents went ballistic, along with the usual strops and usual "if you go you can NEVER come back here again, EVER" threats. So I never went.

Two years later when I suggested I try London for work I was, again, threatened to never darken their doorstep again, along with threats that if I went to London I'd be kidnapped and murdered. "They can spot people like you - they're waiting at the railway stations looking for people who look lost....."

So ... I've never been to London.

My parents were like that too, they put me off starting an electrical contracting business (very small scale) when I was 18 and an apprentice electrician. They wouldn't let me travel up to Newcastle until I was 16, which meant that I couldn't play in chess tournaments as a youngster.

James_B.

I arrived in London aged 21, with a bag of clothes and a promise of a £6k per year grant to research particle physics. Still here 20 years later, but as per those in the OP's referred data, may downsize and move out in a few years, swap the flat here for a castle in France, and a big, big bag of retirement money.

I think London is still the best place to do this in the UK.

Joe_Bloggs

@James_B and chucknorris
what do you think of the USS debacle ?
J_B.

Perhaps Steven Segal and Chuck Norris should form an acting company and appear in each others movies, halving the time it takes to watch their total output.

chucknorris

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

@James_B and chucknorris
what do you think of the USS debacle ?
J_B.

Perhaps Steven Segal and Chuck Norris should form an acting company and appear in each others movies, halving the time it takes to watch their total output.

Our university's lecturers join the TPS (Teachers Pension Scheme), which is fantastic value (the USS scheme will be equally good value).

BigMac400

FOMO - stands for fear of missing out.

Its the same all around the world, young people from the country want to move to the city, because they think that is where everything is happening.

The problem is in London, when the young people have kids they find it hard to earn enough to pay such high housing costs,

The new high speed trains when finished will help no end, more families can live outside London and still work in the city.

James_B.

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

@James_B and chucknorris
what do you think of the USS debacle ?
J_B.

Perhaps Steven Segal and Chuck Norris should form an acting company and appear in each others movies, halving the time it takes to watch their total output.

I've no real opinion on it. I left not long into postdoctoral life, when I realised that I could have a more academically taxing job, of far more interest to me, and where I was far more in control of my destiny, if I moved to Finance from CERN.

It's not a decision that I've ever regretted. I regret only that Physicists are paid so poorly for research that so many others make the same decision.