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No it is a commuter town like all those other stations and with MK heading for a 500,000 population it is not inconceivable that people will use a train to commute there.

Point taken about Harrow but I think my point is valid for the rest.

I've worked in MK for 20 years - in that time among my various colleagues I can think of only 1 person who lived in High Wycombe and 1 who lived in Amersham.

When you get down to Watford and Rickmansworth you're competing with the London job market where salaries and employer choices are much greater - there isn't, and I doubt very much there will be, a flow from Rickmansworth to MK for an hour plus journey (which it would be via Amersham) when you can get to Central London in under 30 mins or to Heathrow in 45 mins (using the 724).

Just because MK is heading for a 500k population, doesn't mean it will have jobs to attract people from 40+ miles away - the aim is for people to move there for jobs, not commute that distance.
 
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I've worked in MK for 20 years - in that time among my various colleagues I can think of only 1 person who lived in High Wycombe and 1 who lived in Amersham.

When you get down to Watford and Rickmansworth you're competing with the London job market where salaries and employer choices are much greater - there isn't, and I doubt very much there will be, a flow from Rickmansworth to MK for an hour plus journey (which it would be via Amersham) when you can get to Central London in under 30 mins or to Heathrow in 45 mins (using the 724).

Just because MK is heading for a 500k population, doesn't mean it will have jobs to attract people from 40+ miles away - the aim is for people to move there for jobs, not commute that distance.
I agree with a lot of this. Who's to say how it will evolve, but I don't see the types of jobs or companies settling there which will compete with the London job market. And if you lived in Ricky and wanted to get to MK, you'd drive. Or get a fast train from Watford.

However, people do travel from London, outer and all over, out to Reading, Oxford and of course Cambridge for great jobs, to a lesser degree, Slough, Watford and a few others - so it may well happen with MK. Hopefully it will develop its own clusters of more national/regional law, financial services, insurance etc opportunities, as well as the retail, property and logistics sectors, like a 'regional capital' - Newcastle for instance.
 

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I agree with a lot of this. Who's to say how it will evolve, but I don't see the types of jobs or companies settling there which will compete with the London job market. And if you lived in Ricky and wanted to get to MK, you'd drive. Or get a fast train from Watford.

However, people do travel from London, outer and all over, out to Reading, Oxford and of course Cambridge for great jobs, to a lesser degree, Slough, Watford and a few others - so it may well happen with MK. Hopefully it will develop its own clusters of more national/regional law, financial services, insurance etc opportunities, as well as the retail, property and logistics sectors, like a 'regional capital' - Newcastle for instance.

But it's illogical to say 'well MK is expanding to a population of over 400,000 ergo people from Rickmansworth will want to commute there' - a good chunk of the 400,000 in MK will actually be looking to commute *outside of* MK - so London, Birmingham, Luton, Oxford. It's not a guarantee that the expansion of MK will lead to more jobs and therefore more people wanting to commute to it.
 

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I agree, to an extent. But with size comes diversification. The MK of half a million might have more interesting opportunities and attractions than that of today (how could it not). I'm not really talking about Rickmansworth specifically here. It's a London suburb on the tube.
 
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