London is handing out free meals for all primary school children

Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by ClumsyPilot on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:36PM (#34871916)

I am an immigrant to Britain, and I am sad for Britain, and I am said about moving to Britain. It is really hard to describe.

before I moved to Britain I thought it's a rich country, but actually it's a poor country with one rich city (London + Oxford/Cambridge)

GDP of London is $66,000. Second biggest city in UK is Birmingham, has GDP per capita $30,000. I have wasted 10 years in that god-forsaken place. Birmingham is not unique, Manchester, Glasgow, and other big cities are withing ~15% error margin.

Second biggest city in Germany is Hamburg, has GDP per capita $85,000. To find a city in Germany that is as poor as Birmingham, you have to go to the 4th poorest city, Oberhausen [1], population 200K, rank 59 by size and rank 104 by GDP.

UK even loses comparison to post-soviet countries - Prague, Czech republic, GDP PP is $57,000, Double of Birmingham. Bratislava, Slovatia - $45,000. Warsaw, Poland - $32,000

And that's average. Then there are some truly god-forsaken places like North & East Ayrshire, has GDP €16,200. I don't even know how that's possible, Yakutia, Siberia has GDP of $18,000

Brexit vote was about stopping immigrants from getting in, British people do not realise they should be the ones getting out. You could hand an average non-london Britton a ticket to a random European capital their standard of living would improve.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_cities_by_GDP#:...

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by jacooper on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:05PM (#34872235)

It sounds you moved out, if so where to?

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by ploppyploppy on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:23PM (#34873112)

You speak of my country with disgust and it offends me.

You know what's kept those wages outside London so low?

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by ClumsyPilot on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:04PM (#34873575)

I am sorry if any of it came across as disguist.

I am feeling very compassionate to people that have suffered tremendous economic mismanagement.

I have seen people get offended at the suggestion that maybe some 'lesser' fountries are doing better, and we can learn from them. Even compairing Britain to Poland was disrespectfull to them.

> You know what's kept those wages outside London so low?

My guess would be, lowest public investment in the regions in OECD?

https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/uk-near-bottom-oecd-rankings-nat...

Also 'native' white British poor people get treated like crap?

Look at british TV shows - Benefit Street, Villabising poor people. Or how much educational outcomes are 70% predicted by parents income.

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Re:London is handing out free meals for all primary school c... by chrisntb on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:46PM (#34873391)

I lived for several years in Cambridge and then several years in Manchester and then several years in Glasgow and then several years in London and then several years in Oxford and then several years in ... Each city was the best time in my life, including ... :)

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