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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3467 Location: Doha. Is hot.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 11 4:22 am Post subject: |
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Hairyloon wrote: |
Treacodactyl wrote: |
Edit to add, for example, someone just over the 40% threshold living and working in the South East is likely to have far less spare cash than someone just under the 40% threshold living in many other parts of the country. |
Again, that is their choice. |
Sorry to backtrack a bit, but...
You're right, in theory. People do have the choice as to where they work geographically. However, when people do the job they are best at, it benefits society as a whole. The kind of work I do can only be done in London or Aberdeen in the UK, both of which are hideously expensive to live in or near. The only way to fix this according to your vision would be for the UK to be completely decentralised such that there were no expensive population / employment centres, which wouldn't work (IMO), or for the country to stop doing the kind of work that needs people to get together in numbers to be productive (in other words, ship certain industries in their entirety overseas and import the same services from elsewhere). |
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Hairyloon
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Hairyloon
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oldish chris
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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