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Land costs are too high in the UK. Everything except banking must leave.
by branchless 9y ago
Land costs are too high in the UK. Everything except banking must leave.
- raesene9 9y agoLand costs in the South East of England may be too high, but that really doesn't apply to the whole of the UK...
- branchless 9y agoThey are very high in most urban areas where you are likely to have a dev centre.
- estel 9y agoWaterside is absolutely able to accommodate a dev team.
- raesene9 9y agoI'd say there are several locations in the UK with quite low costs (definitely massively lower than SE England). For example Glasgow. Average residential prices are 23% of London, that's a lot cheaper and there's a good level of skilled workforce there.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoSouth Wales where the one of the BA service centres used to be, for example, is low cost and 2 hours train from London (there's Cardiff airport; and St.Athan's [ex-RAF?]).
- Doctor_Fegg 9y agoLand costs are really not high in Birmingham and the Black Country, the second biggest urban area in Britain. You could build within walking distance of (say) Sandwell & Dudley station, with mainline trains to London, for comparative peanuts.