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tl;dr: We may never know as the article doesn't address the question, choosing instead to list the author's favourite reasons why London is so awesome. I beg to
by stevetrewick 11y ago
tl;dr: We may never know as the article doesn't address the question, choosing instead to list the author's favourite reasons why London is so awesome. I beg to differ, personally. Poor air quality, overcrowding and hopeless mobile infrastructure put it low on my list of desirable places. If your idea of 'culture' is state subsidised opera and looting then maybe London is for you, but there are superior and more diverse cultural offers around the UK. YMMV.
Anyhoo, a more cogent statement of the question the article poses might be 'London has recently greatly benefited from globalisation in ways the rest of the U.K. has yet to duplicate, why ?
- parsnipsumthing 11y agoAgree that the article doesn't actually answer the question. I love London but the article is poorly reasoned. Additionally a lot of it is focused on the post-2008 recession period which is ludicrous. London's dominance is a century old, it has nothing to do with "London bankers".
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoTLDR its "I dont want to go to Salford" The BBC to curry favor and to save money and screw people on pensions moved a load of its shows to salford in Manchester. You do understand thats why Dr Who and other shows are made in wales.
- rjsw 11y agoThere are plenty of nice places to live in Manchester.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoWell ill give you Alderly edge as long as you don't mind having footballers as neighbors.
- rjsw 11y agoHave you been reading glossy magazines ?
- pjc50 11y agoLondon gets a large chunk of public transport spending and investment which the rest of the country does not: http://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/transport-spend-per-head-is-p2700-for-london-but-p5-per-head-in-north-east http://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/transport-... London extracts money from globalization through the financial services industry, which has to be in one place because it's dependent on all going to the same pubs. (The back office work is a bit more distributed across the country, but none of the high-value jobs).