and primary schools are shutting down due to lack of pupils. It’s expensive as hell to raise a family in London and in a decent enough area. No surprise here
This describes perfectly what I am going to do.
I’ve had older London friends retire – some to lovely places in the country using their London house price to buy their dream place. Some to downsize in London or stay in their house.
The ones who really seem to be enjoying retirement are those who stayed in London. Without the focus of work then small town life is 5 restaurants, 10 great walks and 7 pubs, and they don’t like all of them.
The London ones have endless clubs or societies or hobbies they get involved with and leave and of course endless restaurants and pubs to get tired of and move on to. And all transport is free.
So I’m staying here.
Nobody can afford housing to start of family.
Lady next door to me lives in a 3 bed semi council house (recently had council re-do kitchen and bathroom) as a single retired person. Absolute waste of resources.
You want rich boomers? You get rich boomers.
ever since Sadiq Khan started those tuesday witchcraft rituals from the top of the Shard all my hair has been falling out and I’ve had this persistent taste of metal everywhere I go. Wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Drinking water out the Thames
Well maybe make housing affordable for young families and we wouldn’t have this issue
Because for the average people, it’s too expensive to be young in London now.
*shocked Pikachu*
Hardly surprising: young people can no longer afford to live independently in London.
I’m quite surprised, as a lot of older people sell their house, then buy a cheaper place in the country or up north, and have a nice little nest egg with the rest of the money. But I guess the fact that very few people start families eschews average age upwards
It’s probably a trend in all major cities. I remember living in Manhattan and seeing some young kids with their grandparents in battery park and thinking ‘wow I don’t think I’ve seen a family in months’, as most of Lower Manhattan was just working age people without kids
tl;dr birth rate has plummeted and fewer young people are moving to the city, fewer hospitality jobs available post covid and wfh blamed, even immigrants are living less centrally
my own take is it looks like only older people can afford to live centrally
>it suggests that the city could gradually become less exciting and dynamic
we’re seeing it already with the nightlife and I’ve seen companies with higher in-office hours struggling to hire roles at certain levels because anyone with kids can’t afford to live close enough
I don’t know why so many people (including the author of this article) act as if the only two options are London or the middle of nowhere.
Secondary schools in inner city boroughs are fucked.
Primary schools in my Borough are good. All the secondary schools suck though
It’s a wonder that aged care nurses/providers can afford to live nearby these older inner city Londoners. I imagine many will struggle to get the support they need with carers priced out.
oh, good, gtfo and let me buy your house.
Not enough housing and when something does get built the council makes sure a third goes to social
where I grew up there was a state primary just around the corner, laundrette, sweet shop & a fruit and veg on the corner, up the road there was a fish monger & butcher.
Primary school is flats, all the shops are gone & the house I lived in costs over 2million.
So can’t say I’m suprised. It’s exclusively for rich tossers now.
Congratulations on the dumbest headline ever. The reality of what this means is – “people in London live longer than the rest of England”
We can actually peel away another layer to reveal the underlying truth – “people with more money tend to live longer”
unless you are a millionaire , You have to be mad or insane to raise a family in London
I can confirm. Moved out of London 3 years ago, am now 4 years old
So they’re born…old?
Need more coke
Immigration plays a huge part in this , when you have someone move to a place in there 30-40 they are already have what there , it’s only a short term solution to GDP increase but long term it’s a cost
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Archived link [here](https://archive.ph/9c6rX).
and primary schools are shutting down due to lack of pupils. It’s expensive as hell to raise a family in London and in a decent enough area. No surprise here
This describes perfectly what I am going to do.
I’ve had older London friends retire – some to lovely places in the country using their London house price to buy their dream place. Some to downsize in London or stay in their house.
The ones who really seem to be enjoying retirement are those who stayed in London. Without the focus of work then small town life is 5 restaurants, 10 great walks and 7 pubs, and they don’t like all of them.
The London ones have endless clubs or societies or hobbies they get involved with and leave and of course endless restaurants and pubs to get tired of and move on to. And all transport is free.
So I’m staying here.
Nobody can afford housing to start of family.
Lady next door to me lives in a 3 bed semi council house (recently had council re-do kitchen and bathroom) as a single retired person. Absolute waste of resources.
You want rich boomers? You get rich boomers.
ever since Sadiq Khan started those tuesday witchcraft rituals from the top of the Shard all my hair has been falling out and I’ve had this persistent taste of metal everywhere I go. Wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Drinking water out the Thames
Well maybe make housing affordable for young families and we wouldn’t have this issue
Because for the average people, it’s too expensive to be young in London now.
*shocked Pikachu*
Hardly surprising: young people can no longer afford to live independently in London.
I’m quite surprised, as a lot of older people sell their house, then buy a cheaper place in the country or up north, and have a nice little nest egg with the rest of the money. But I guess the fact that very few people start families eschews average age upwards
It’s probably a trend in all major cities. I remember living in Manhattan and seeing some young kids with their grandparents in battery park and thinking ‘wow I don’t think I’ve seen a family in months’, as most of Lower Manhattan was just working age people without kids
archived/none-paywalled version [https://archive.is/9c6rX](https://archive.is/9c6rX)
tl;dr birth rate has plummeted and fewer young people are moving to the city, fewer hospitality jobs available post covid and wfh blamed, even immigrants are living less centrally
my own take is it looks like only older people can afford to live centrally
>it suggests that the city could gradually become less exciting and dynamic
we’re seeing it already with the nightlife and I’ve seen companies with higher in-office hours struggling to hire roles at certain levels because anyone with kids can’t afford to live close enough
I don’t know why so many people (including the author of this article) act as if the only two options are London or the middle of nowhere.
Secondary schools in inner city boroughs are fucked.
Primary schools in my Borough are good. All the secondary schools suck though
It’s a wonder that aged care nurses/providers can afford to live nearby these older inner city Londoners. I imagine many will struggle to get the support they need with carers priced out.
oh, good, gtfo and let me buy your house.
Not enough housing and when something does get built the council makes sure a third goes to social
where I grew up there was a state primary just around the corner, laundrette, sweet shop & a fruit and veg on the corner, up the road there was a fish monger & butcher.
Primary school is flats, all the shops are gone & the house I lived in costs over 2million.
So can’t say I’m suprised. It’s exclusively for rich tossers now.
Congratulations on the dumbest headline ever. The reality of what this means is – “people in London live longer than the rest of England”
We can actually peel away another layer to reveal the underlying truth – “people with more money tend to live longer”
unless you are a millionaire , You have to be mad or insane to raise a family in London
I can confirm. Moved out of London 3 years ago, am now 4 years old
So they’re born…old?
Need more coke
Immigration plays a huge part in this , when you have someone move to a place in there 30-40 they are already have what there , it’s only a short term solution to GDP increase but long term it’s a cost
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