Yep. Particularly notable for me in the article: " Because of this, London is becoming like Washington DC in the USA, where I used to live. DC is dived with p

Yep. Particularly notable for me in the article: " Because of this, London is becoming like Washington DC in the USA, where I used to live. DC is dived with poverty at one end serving the wealth at the other, and the wealth doesn't hang around. DC is a place where people go to further their careers before moving on to settle down because it's too expensive to stay." I bailed out of Washington, DC 11 months ago. Got so sick of trying to grind out a basic quality of life. I ended up moving to "flyover country", and I love it. Trees, fresh air, good jobs, and a house in a great neighborhood. The people are nice, and I have this crazy thing that some people refer to as liquid assets, others call it disposable income. It's nice. My brother, who remained behind in DC with his family, has a house that is less than half the square footage of my modestly sized country house. It's cramped, even by urban standards, and majorly in need of repairs. It is also a duplex, and the neighbors sharing the structure are rather snooty and unfriendly. He paid over $500K US for it. Did I mention the schools are so bad he'll have to send his son to private school? Yeah, I'll take the affordable cities any day over that crap. Unlike my brother, my house isn't making decisions for me, like "can one of us stay home with the new baby instead of putting her in daycare?" (His mortgage had a firm answer of no to their bank account.)