#3209

Did it have suitable Dube storage facilities?

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#3210

London-weighted wage is a slight myth as well, at least in my industry we benefit from having banded wages so if you have a london and manchester office then the mancunians benefit from having the same wage as londoners but lowing living costs (and better quality of life :wink:). And public sector the london weighting doesn’t in any way covers the cost of living differential

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#3211

And a city where it literally never stops raining

#3212

It’s not just wages though is it, it’s the jobs in the first place. With industries concentrated in London, sometimes that’s where you have to be. My wife works for a large international company that has a big office in London. There’s not really a comparable job she could move into in another UK city.

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#3213

Woah that looks so grim

#3214

Yeah I’m being completely mugged off here compared to my colleagues doing the same job in our Teesside site.

But they don’t get all the assorted benefits associated with an active local punting scene, so the joke’s on them.

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#3215

Good Netrunner scene in Teeside?

#3216

yeah for sure, completely understand that.

#3217

I’m not disputing this… Well I am really… Sorry :blush:

What jobs are there that you can only do in London?

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#3218

Soft one. The concentration of good players across the sarf of England makes the competition much fiercer.

#3219

Cockney chimney sweep.

#3220

Well, does Google have a Preston office? (My wife doesn’t work for Google).

#3221

You could be a king in Teeside. The women would flock to you, the master of Netrunner.

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#3222

We’re going to have this problem in the next few years. Finding a cataloguing role in a library not in a city (and even then they’re nearly all in London) is basically impossible :grimacing: (for plasticmike it will be easier I think)

#3223

The patent twat profession is extremely London-focused, for one. Obviously jobs exist elsewhere, but landing a job that’s in your technical area AND for your level of experience AND where you know they’re not all cunts is hard enough if you also want to work in a particular not-London location.

For private practice, anyway. The in-house roles are clustered in Oxbridgey tech-heavy places or spread out on industrial estates in places like Teesside.

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#3224

This is my retirement plan. I have a lot of family in Teeside. My uncles 3 bedroom house who recently passed away is up for £45,000.

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#3225

Probably not, I bet there’s a multinational IT place in Manchester though

Its probably me but I just find the whole ‘I have to live here because of my job’ so alien. Without wanting to sound like a warped thatcherite… If I wanted to live somewhere but couldn’t keep the same job, I’d ditch the job.

Appreciate others have different approaches to life :relaxed:

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#3226

No, I get it too - like all these things, it’s just a series of compromises. If you’re good at something, enjoy it, reap the rewards of it, then that can go a long way. At some point, the balance will no doubt shift.

#3227

It’s a struggle to get a new job in London at the best of times so i think people feel smaller cities may be even harder?

When I say struggle, it’s not because theres so many more people applying for jobs. There just aren’t a wealth of jobs available.

#3228

I get a little bit cross every time I think about how much houses cost in Cambridge compared to the salaries on offer. Where the fuck do all these people who can afford £550-600k shoeboxes work? Do that many people commute to London for work?