I have considered it but the cost of living is a fair bit higher (e.g. London). So we're talking about a 20% cost of living increase. Even the jobs coming out

I have considered it but the cost of living is a fair bit higher (e.g. London). So we're talking about a 20% cost of living increase. Even the jobs coming out of London aren't that good. My current job is better than most. As I said there is a lot of unemployed programmers around here and competition remains tight. A lot of people got thrown out when a bunch of service and or financial companies went bust, and they've been stealing all of the interesting or well compensated work.