AlterEgo
Veteran Member
Strange how you both espouse your love of the North East from Buckinghamshire
Yes, I wonder why people from the north move south (!)
Strange how you both espouse your love of the North East from Buckinghamshire
My earlier post comparing Sunderland and Bristol was leading on to my suggesting that the better educated / harder working / more enterprising people tended to abandon their home cities and move to more prosperous areas rather than employ their talents locally.
Strange how you both espouse your love of the North East from Buckinghamshire
Seems to work when remainers talk about what will happen after Brexit.That's impossible to know. As the saying goes "That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".
To be honest, there's not really much in the way of evidence on the 'Leave' side of the argument.Seems to work when remainers talk about what will happen after Brexit.
Yes, I wonder why people from the north move south (!)
Not all of us do so, as there are places such as "The Golden Triangle" of Prestbury, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge that are a beacon of good living and having residents such as I who appreciate these environs.
I don't really think comparing Bristol and Sunderland is very fair. Bristol is not so far from London, situated very close to two major motorways and near to the main two road and one rail connections to South Wales and is the largest conurbation for some distance: Sunderland has none of those advantages. Despite that, I would say that Sunderland has certainly managed to make a better fist of getting around the local area by public transport. Incidentally, I have an in-law who has spent the entire 60 years of his life living in one or the other place, so he is well placed to make comparisons.My earlier post comparing Sunderland and Bristol was leading on to my suggesting that the better educated / harder working / more enterprising people tended to abandon their home cities and move to more prosperous areas rather than employ their talents locally.
Turns out you can say it's Thatcher's fault that broadband is too slow, even though broadband wasn't around while she was PM.
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784
I don't really think comparing Bristol and Sunderland is very fair. Bristol is not so far from London, situated very close to two major motorways and near to the main two road and one rail connections to South Wales and is the largest conurbation for some distance: Sunderland has none of those advantages. Despite that, I would say that Sunderland has certainly managed to make a better fist of getting around the local area by public transport. Incidentally, I have an in-law who has spent the entire 60 years of his life living in one or the other place, so he is well placed to make comparisons.
You never miss an opportunity.
Well said, Ha ha. I for one can't afford a flat cap or a ferret. (Kidding).Of course not, as one of my tasks in life is to both inform and educate those in strange-sounding regional areas such as the "Home Counties" that some of the people in the "Northern" provinces do not all wear flat caps and have ferrets down our trousers....
Indeed, remainers have no evidence whatsoever to back up their statements as to what will happen AFTER we leave the EU.To be honest, there's not really much in the way of evidence on the 'Leave' side of the argument.
Ah mate that is like being on Chemo and it makes you feel ill so lets see what happens if we come off it.Indeed, remainers have no evidence whatsoever to back up their statements as to what will happen AFTER we leave the EU.
And become hangers on in an already prosperous area rather then making a difference where they are from. Just carry on perpetuating the problem. They sound more like successful parasites.My earlier post comparing Sunderland and Bristol was leading on to my suggesting that the better educated / harder working / more enterprising people tended to abandon their home cities and move to more prosperous areas rather than employ their talents locally.
Turns out you can say it's Thatcher's fault that broadband is too slow, even though broadband wasn't around while she was PM
That's not really fair. If, using an example, I was to study and become a neurosurgeon would I be a 'parasite' if I moved to a town that had a hospital rather than stay in my home town and flip burgers?And become hangers on in an already prosperous area rather then making a difference where they are from. Just carry on perpetuating the problem. They sound more like successful parasites.
That's not really fair. If, using an example, I was to study and become a neurosurgeon would I be a 'parasite' if I moved to a town that had a hospital rather than stay in my home town and flip burgers?
Do get a grip Paul.
I know that you are very rich and did very well out of those Thatcher years. Many did not. Many still do not. You seem unable to accept or acknowledge that. Much easier to blame the dirty scum for the problems isn't it?
Naturally there is, but the question still remains: if I have specialist skills is it parasitic to move to where I can use them rather than staying in my current location and not using them?There is something of a very wide skills gap between a neurosurgeon and a burger-flipper.
Naturally there is, but the question still remains: if I have specialist skills is it parasitic to move to where I can use them rather than staying in my current location and not using them?
And if they have the aptitude and desire to work in an area for which there's no local demand?Someone who wants to benefit his home city should study something he can use to work in and benefit that part of the country.
And if they have the aptitude and desire to work in an area for which there's no local demand?
That's not always an option - e.g. it's not easy to start an aeronautical engineering business from scratch, unless you happen to have several hundred millions of pounds stuffed down the back of the sofa.Create the demand by starting up a business, perhaps in partnership with other local people who want to see their city thrive. Or if sufficiently altruistic go and work in another similar area.
Its always fascinating how quickly a discussion on a forum moves from the point made by the OP to something completely different - even more so when the text quoted by the OP is probably completely incorrect in blaming somebody for something for which there appears to be no evidence
That's not always an option - e.g. it's not easy to start an aeronautical engineering business from scratch, unless you happen to have several hundred millions of pounds stuffed down the back of the sofa.
No, but something related may well be possible. It depends how much you want to compromise personal ambition for the good of your local community.
Indeed it does. Personally, having seen the emotional damage that can be done by and to someone who is stuck in job they are 'supposed' to do, I think self-realisation outweighs obligation coming and going.No, but something related may well be possible. It depends how much you want to compromise personal ambition for the good of your local community.
That was a bit more extreme than what I said. If you are from Ashington and study to be a Neurosurgeon you don't need to move to London to practice it.That's not really fair. If, using an example, I was to study and become a neurosurgeon would I be a 'parasite' if I moved to a town that had a hospital rather than stay in my home town and flip burgers?