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The main problem I have here in the UK is that I live in a suburban area but have excellent train, bus, tram, road links into our nearest city and several other
by thorin 12y ago
The main problem I have here in the UK is that I live in a suburban area but have excellent train, bus, tram, road links into our nearest city and several other local cities.
Every job I've expressed an interest in recently has an office outside of the main centre, normally near a major road junction. This makes the office inaccessible by public transport and much easier to get to by car. These are IT jobs in different industry sectors: retail, defence, finance, utilities etc.
I suppose this is due to the price of land and availability of office space out of town. There is no incentive for most of these companies to be in a city centre.
This is the major reason I'm likely to continue to drive to work. At the right time of day it takes 20 mins to drive, proabably over 1.5 hours by public transport - a mixture of train, bus, walk and much more expensive. How dissappointing!
Of course this isn't an issue in London, I'm talking about provincial towns and cities.