Posted on 10/01/2017 19:33
Saw on the news all the wailing and moaning about the difficulty of getting into work for those living in London.
If it helps -
- We have no Tube system round our way.
- The nearest station is 5 miles away, with about one train per hour, going to two towns that I never go to.
- I think there are a few buses each day, not sure where they go to.
But somehow, we manage.
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Posted on 10/01/2017 20:26 by DavidKlyneI am sure Londoners will appreciate your sympathy as you clearly have no perception of how difficult it is to get to work in London without public transport. Using a car, which most people outside London would use, is not an option. If the Underground is not working buses can't make up the capacity. Even within London it can take a hour to get to work when everything is working so not much fun for all those people responsible for providing a quarter of the UK's wealth? As for people moaning about it perhaps we all would if our jobs were at risk?
David
Posted on 11/01/2017 13:11
The answer, as we all know, is NOT to concentrate all the jobs in one city, (The Capital city of England ) but to spread the work around the country. That way London would not be so clogged up, overcrowded and congested. Their Transport systems would be less busy.
Now that IT wide area networking has been perfected. There is no need to have millions of workers descending daily on one comparatively small area in the country. Companies can communicate with other areas of their business and their clients on line, just as easily as speaking face to face.
While I was working, London was a destination I regularly visited, flying down to meetings and presentations, staying in some of the nicer hotels and doing the sights at night. That was part of the job.
Now I'm retired would I ever go to London during my leisure time?.
Not on your Nellie
Cheers.................K
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Posted on 11/01/2017 13:11 by KennineThe answer, as we all know, is NOT to concentrate all the jobs in one city, (The Capital city of England ) but to spread the work around the country. That way London would not be so clogged up, overcrowded and congested. Their Transport systems would be less busy.
Now that IT wide area networking has been perfected. There is no need to have millions of workers descending daily on one comparatively small area in the country. Companies can communicate with other areas of their business and their clients on line, just as easily as speaking face to face.
While I was working, London was a destination I regularly visited, flying down to meetings and presentations, staying in some of the nicer hotels and doing the sights at night. That was part of the job.
Now I'm retired would I ever go to London during my leisure time?.
Not on your Nellie
Cheers.................K
Posted on 11/01/2017 13:00 by NavigateurIndeed, LONDON is different from the rest of the country. If you asked me I would say it was stupid being that way, but many generations have chosen to live like that and lots of people now see it as "normal".
Ten Terminal Stations? Any terminal station? Any station? Any railway? not here. Oh, and most of the buses go to the town on either side, apart from the occasional random one that turns up with a destination further afield.
Any time I have been in LONDON I have shocked the locals I'm working with by WALKING to places.
Posted on 11/01/2017 13:54
I too thank goodness for retirement as my husband spent all his working life in the capitol, the option to just go and work elsewhere would have caused serious consequences if everyone in his line of work did it, especially back when London was being bombed by the IRA or other extremists, or in the case of the Kings Cross fire or London buses exploding, yes he attended at all those incidents as did all the hospital staff, ambulance services and of course the police too, for them there is not the option to just take a few days off when there is a strike - you get there by hook or by crook and - often - stayed there for the duration. It is good that some have sympathy for the predicament many London workers are finding themselves in at the moment, but personally I am saddened by the 'smug' few who appear to have no conception of the difficulties of keeping a major city functioning at ALL times.
Alison
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Posted on 11/01/2017 13:54 by FiredragonI too thank goodness for retirement as my husband spent all his working life in the capitol, the option to just go and work elsewhere would have caused serious consequences if everyone in his line of work did it, especially back when London was being bombed by the IRA or other extremists, or in the case of the Kings Cross fire or London buses exploding, yes he attended at all those incidents as did all the hospital staff, ambulance services and of course the police too, for them there is not the option to just take a few days off when there is a strike - you get there by hook or by crook and - often - stayed there for the duration. It is good that some have sympathy for the predicament many London workers are finding themselves in at the moment, but personally I am saddened by the 'smug' few who appear to have no conception of the difficulties of keeping a major city functioning at ALL times.
Alison
Posted on 11/01/2017 13:32 by JVB66But if there was not such a huge talented population in The Home Counties paying such prices to commute and pay high taxes, how would we be able to support/subsidise the the other Countries of the UK
Posted on 11/01/2017 15:00
Is that so --- I'm sure there is as much, if not more talent in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast ETC - but if it's your belief that Londonshire is financing everywhere in the UK by all means you are entitled to that opinion, But ---------- please don't mind if others have a more intellectually rational opinion.
Cheers........................K
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Posted on 11/01/2017 15:00 by KennineIs that so --- I'm sure there is as much, if not more talent in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast ETC - but if it's your belief that Londonshire is financing everywhere in the UK by all means you are entitled to that opinion, But ---------- please don't mind if others have a more intellectually rational opinion.
Cheers........................K
Posted on 11/01/2017 17:27
K
If it was that simple I am sure many companies would jump at the opportunity to move to other parts of the UK as for one thing you could argue it would be cheaper and offer employees in many case a better quality of life. However London, and I suppose you could include all of the south east England has the power to draw talented people from not only the UK but from the rest of the world. So if a company that needs specialist skills move way out of London what happens when they want more staff with similar skills which are not available locally. If they stay in London they know those skills will be available with not many problems. It's not an ideal situation but it is what we have. Governments have tried moving institutions out of London with very mixed success. I have never worked in London but through my work had to visit fairly frequently so got to know parts of London quite well. It is still a really wonderful place to visit, even if retired as there is so much to see and do. Us tourists don't make it any easier for those who have to work there.
David
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