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> This basically amounts to advising them not to live in a city (which is fine). But some people do like living in cities, and London is really the only option
by dev_north_east 7y ago
> This basically amounts to advising them not to live in a city (which is fine). But some people do like living in cities, and London is really the only option in the UK if you want to do that.
I'm gonna call bollocks on that :)
I agree with the rest to an extent. You're going to be paid higher (well not everybody, but most HN readers would be) and have all the other advantages of London. Fine. But you need to take the downsides with that and stop moaning.
When I was emigrating to the UK I considered everywhere. London was one of the first places I crossed off my list.
- foldr 7y ago>But you need to take the downsides with that and stop moaning. This is the whole problem with the UK. Many of the current problems with London are fixable. People need to keep moaning about them in order to get them fixed.
- dev_north_east 7y agoTbh I think the "easiest" single thing which would improve the UK immensely would be to ditch FPTP and bring in some type of PR voting.
- foldr 7y agoThat or turn London into a city state :)
- dev_north_east 7y agoAs long as the City of London is independent of that!
- xcklo 7y agoWhat I will give your argument of moving is that once you have something to fix it usually already have become a feature for someone else. It is usually not realistic to fix much of anything so much as moving in another direction from a different position. I just don't see any places really doing that. Not that it would necessarily be visible, but people are looking. While certainly having slightly different criteria Nomad List for example doesn't feature much in the UK. https://nomadlist.com/ https://nomadlist.com/
- reallydontask 7y agoIf we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen? Would a general election be called? It's a bit farcical that the country will have a PM that was not the leader of the governing party at the last election. Granted with the Brexit mess they could arguably have some legitimate reasons for not calling it straight away but it seems that they've all ruled out calling it at all, AFAIK.
- dev_north_east 7y ago> If we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen? Ireland has a form of PR (single transferable vote), they've had plenty of instances of the Taoiseach (PM) being replaced and not going to a general election straight away.
- vallode 7y agoNot sure I understand... you're gonna call bollocks on the idea that someone can have different likes and dislikes from you?
- dev_north_east 7y agoLondon is not the only city in the UK. That's what I'm calling bollocks on.
- foldr 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_economies_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_economies...
- vallode 7y agoAh my bad, somehow I omitted the fact they said London is the only city! Yeah that is a little weird, plenty more to the UK than just London :)