This is another reason why working from home is a good thing - I was born and raised in a little town which pretty much wouldn’t have career prospects, but I was lucky enough to get a well paying career that lets me work remotely. I’m spending a good chunk of my money locally, which helps to keep people in jobs in my hometown. I know I’m just a tiny, tiny cog in a big complex machine, but it’s better than channeling yet more money into the big cities. And as a bonus for this little town, it gets to keep an opinionated locally grown weirdo!
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This is the most senseless thing about the RTO movement to me. We have a tiny country and, in software at least, jobs are centralised in a few major cities. There was an opportunity for people from all over to live wherever they choose and spend in their local areas, spread the wealth throughout the country.
But nah, let's go back to the office, the congested and overburdened roads, the noise and air pollution, the hours lost travelling. It's hugely disappointing.
It’s absolutely shocking to me how much effort the capitalist class is willing to expend for such a small amount of control. It should be a no-brainer for them: reduced overheads, reduced office costs, etc. I guess I’m surprised that the control is worth more to them than the profit.
It should be a no-brainer for them: reduced overheads, reduced office costs, etc. I guess I’m surprised that the control is worth more to them than the profit.
And yet it is. Google didn't build a £1 billion campus in London because they couldn't do it in Bristol. They built it because it's where the power lies in this country. Sadly.
Apple doesn't dodge tax in deepest darkest Ballina town in County Mayo Ireland, it dodges tax in Dublin because that's where the power is.
Of course it's worth it for them. 😥
Come to Germany! We have great jobs here!
Bilingual Brits? No chance. Most can hardly comprehend English let alone another language.
Eh englisch is ok in many jobs, learning German is a learning by doing thing
Come to the Netherlands then. I know plenty of expats who live here for more than a decade already who still can’t speak a word of Dutch. You can get by with English alone especially in the cities like Amsterdam. Even their kids have low Dutch language skills since they go to an international school. You can stay in an English bubble for your entire life if you want to.
Please don't. I'm extremely welcoming to foreigners but I really don't like how many non-Dutch people move here and never bother learning the language. I don't want bubbles of foreigners, I want an integrated society. I don't want a bunch of international schools, public schools here are fine and kids learn languages quickly and easily.
I know a bunch of people who've lived here for a long time as well who don't speak any Dutch and honestly I find it a bit embarrassing for them. Imagine moving somewhere and not bothering to learn the language at all! I feel like you're just showing your laziness and ignorance.
I know how to say "appelmaus" but I've probably spelled it wrong.
Appelmoes
We need visas now 😡
I tried to move to Munich or Hamburg (also Helsinki but that's not Germany) to get out of London but nobody, even for jobs way below what I'd already got in London, would sponsor me a visa despite me speaking passable german (not great but I studied in school and as an extra-curricular at uni)
Most British people aren’t going to be moving abroad - it’s much harder now due to Brexit. People will be moving from the small towns and villages into the cities.
Any opportunities for us unskilled Brits who have EU passports? I've always wanted to live in Germany and learn the language <3
If you have an EU passport you can do any unskilled job, though you'll need to learn the language.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
More than four in five 16- to 18-year-olds say they need to move from their areas for better opportunities, including more than 90% of those surveyed in the north-east, Yorkshire and the east of England.
A survey of 2,000 people carried out by the Social Mobility Foundation found that on average more than 85% felt they needed to leave.
Tom Brennan, 18, who lives in Ipswich, said: “To be honest, the biggest thing going for the town is its proximity to London.
Lisa Nandy, the shadow cabinet minister for international development, said young people were being forced “to get out to get on [as] the home towns they leave behind have suffered”.
She said young people “will no longer have to choose between home and family and seeking new opportunities” under Labour’s aim for the UK to achieve the highest sustained growth in the G7 which would “provide good jobs across the country”.
Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said the findings were “extremely worrying”.
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I think young people everywhere feel like that.
Life is expensive everywhere.
"If it was good enough for me..." - Dick Whittington
The two people concerned in the article both study computer science.
I'm not saying that there aren't benefits to being local, but generally-speaking, software development is one of the fields easiest to do remotely.
I'm not saying that companies are always open to that, but it can be made to work.
There are a lot of jobs for which that isn't a realistic option, true enough. You can't be a plumber remotely. But of all the examples that they could have chosen, this seems like an odd one.
Since the 16th centry lol