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>If you want to catch up to California, steal their people by paying them at least the same salaries. If you want to catch up to London, do the same. Salary is
by fnord123 9y ago
>If you want to catch up to California, steal their people by paying them at least the same salaries. If you want to catch up to London, do the same.
Salary is probably the prime component that people use in their interpretation of quality of life. It's a raw number so you can make trivial comparisons. But you can probably steal people away from London and the Bay Area if you offer a better QoL across the board.
Manchester can never do this because of the shitty weather. Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Côte d'Azur are probably the only places in Europe suited to take over.
- SirHound 9y agoManchester weather must be pretty bad then, because I looked into Amsterdam and the weather is worse than London. I'd prefer to see better jobs than QoL - me and my girlfriend have been looking to move out of London and we'd love to go to Amsterdam. It would mean taking a more rudimentary position in both our professions (front end and data scientist) than what we get in London.
- fnord123 9y ago>I'd prefer to see better jobs than QoL Job satisfaction is a factor in QoL, I guess.
- PaulRobinson 9y agoManchester weather is better than you'd think, and within an hour you can be in the Lake District, Snowdonia, Pennines/Yorkshire Dales or Peak District depending on which direction you head. Yes, it's not as sunny as Barcelona. But it's not the torrential hole that most people imagine. It actually rains more in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco as a total rainfall, it's just that in Manchester the number of days it rains are higher.
- fnord123 9y agoIt's not just the rain and the spit that just hangs in the air. It's also the depressing overcast skies. http://www.manchester.climatemps.com/precipitation.php http://www.manchester.climatemps.com/precipitation.php http://www.san-francisco.climatemps.com/precipitation.php http://www.san-francisco.climatemps.com/precipitation.php Hours of sun vs cloud for Manchester is a big deal. In the winter you only have 8 hour of possible light and the ~90% of it is covered by clouds.