Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by foldr on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:09AM
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>But you need to take the downsides with that and stop moaning.
This is the whole problem with the UK. Many of the current problems with London are fixable. People need to keep moaning about them in order to get them fixed.
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by dev_north_east on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:15AM
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Tbh I think the "easiest" single thing which would improve the UK immensely would be to ditch FPTP and bring in some type of PR voting.
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by xcklo on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:30AM
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What I will give your argument of moving is that once you have something to fix it usually already have become a feature for someone else. It is usually not realistic to fix much of anything so much as moving in another direction from a different position. I just don't see any places really doing that. Not that it would necessarily be visible, but people are looking. While certainly having slightly different criteria Nomad List for example doesn't feature much in the UK. https://nomadlist.com/
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by reallydontask on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:55AM
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If we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen?
Would a general election be called?
It's a bit farcical that the country will have a PM that was not the leader of the governing party at the last election.
Granted with the Brexit mess they could arguably have some legitimate reasons for not calling it straight away but it seems that they've all ruled out calling it at all, AFAIK.
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by dev_north_east on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:15AM
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> If we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen?
Ireland has a form of PR (single transferable vote), they've had plenty of instances of the Taoiseach (PM) being replaced and not going to a general election straight away.
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by foldr on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:23AM
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That or turn London into a city state :)
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by dev_north_east on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:37AM
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As long as the City of London is independent of that!
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by vallode on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:32AM
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Not sure I understand... you're gonna call bollocks on the idea that someone can have different likes and dislikes from you?
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by dev_north_east on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:09AM
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London is not the only city in the UK. That's what I'm calling bollocks on.
Re:Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study ...
by vallode on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:33AM
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Ah my bad, somehow I omitted the fact they said London is the only city! Yeah that is a little weird, plenty more to the UK than just London :)
I'm gonna call bollocks on that :)
I agree with the rest to an extent. You're going to be paid higher (well not everybody, but most HN readers would be) and have all the other advantages of London. Fine. But you need to take the downsides with that and stop moaning.
When I was emigrating to the UK I considered everywhere. London was one of the first places I crossed off my list.