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But there are places out there *gestures beyond the M25* where you can do that and now (hopefully, due to enlightened and generous employers) continue to easily earn your existing London wage, increasing competition for charming rural hotspots that were previously ideal only for slacklyfe people like myself. My worry, anyway. We were looking to up sticks end of the year, reckon we’ve been set back 12 months by all of this.
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But there are places out there gestures beyond the M25 where you can do that and now (hopefully, due to enlightened and generous employers) continue to easily earn your existing London wage, increasing competition for charming rural hotspots that were previously ideal only for slacklyfe people like myself. My worry, anyway.
Of course, this does beg the question why employers would continue to pay a premium for employees to be based in London, when a person based outside is somewhere between 10-25% cheaper.
Where I work we already see a lot of people living a long way from the main office. They work from home or on other sites and commute occasionally. Which, imo, is good. It means I can job hunt, and employers recruit, across a far wider part of the country. Which put's the onus onto skills & suitability more than 'who's nearby'.
LHL
I think the opposite - it's making a lot of us realise how much we like going somewhere and getting the human contact and ease of discussion that you only get face to face...