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As a Londener - London sucks ! Would love to Live in Edinburgh - but the world's laundered money doesn't flow through Edinburgh :(
by wrong_variable 10y ago
As a Londener - London sucks !
Would love to Live in Edinburgh - but the world's laundered money doesn't flow through Edinburgh :(
- arethuza 10y agoFinance seems to be a big employer here - obviously not on the scale of the City but proportionally (Edinburgh isn't that big) it's a fairly high percentage of jobs.
- pjc50 10y agoYes, although they're "back office" and all the sexy high-paid trading, quant, actuarial stuff is stuck in London.
- arethuza 10y agoDon't think I've ever seen "sexy" and "actuarial" used together :-) What do all the actuaries do in Edinburgh then - I've seen to have known loads of them over the years! Or is pensions/life stuff not on the "sexy" side of things?
- pjc50 10y agoGood point, there's Sun Alliance etc here. I get the impression that they have the "good" but not "stratospheric" pay rates? i.e £50-£150k.
- arethuza 10y agoWhere's your "here" - Edinburgh? :-) Of the places I know employ actuaries in Edinburgh: Standard Life, Scottish Widows, Royal London... and there are quite a few consulting actuary companies around as well.
- pjc50 10y agoYes, my office is near the Standard Life building at the bottom of Dundas Street near the RBS ziggurat.