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> Take those techCity funds, and rent out corrotated iron sheds in country lanes all over the land, and hand them to young idiots with an idea. You may think t

• lifeisstillgood 11y ago
  I worked for two years in a ex RAF barracks. Not corrotated iron but the idea is we don't need to be in the south east or even in particularly fine accommodation - good enough is good enough when you are striving upwards. When they succeed there will be folks wanting to build a better glass and steel edifice overlooking fine country side - and rent out a small part of it to help with the mortgage. My biggest tech-envy went to a guy who had parlayed a freelance gig into a firm and built a small set of buildings out on farm land backing onto his house. It overlooked the best part of Essex, and was just how a "campus" should be - even if it was just twenty people. Not an office, not a house, but a tech based, well it was nice and I wanted not to work there but to copy him. I still do ...
  • rjsw 11y ago
    ... because BT loves to provide high speed broadband to sheds on farmland. There is plenty of cheap office space in northern cities, good infrastructure and reasonably priced housing. I work from home in Manchester but only have to walk 100 yards to a light rail station that can take me either to the airport or in to the city centre. I see that Tech North is running events here as well as elsewhere, I don't have a feel for whether they are doing anything useful though.