There is a video doing the rounds of social media where a young man wearing what appears to be a striped dressing gown explains at some length why he is leaving Britain to set up business in Vietnam.
Just like the mid 1970s . Another Fabian Society administration had bust the country again , unemployment was high , the unions were always arranging strikes , , nothing worked , etc etc . We all left then - best thing we could have done .
I don't really disagree with a lot of the sentiments here, but I think this quote worth looking at: “One in 10 students who will graduate from UK universities this summer are planning to leave the country for better job opportunities, according to a new survey.” Bearing in mind that about 25% of students in Britain are foreign, I suppose that's not that surprising.
What really caught my eye here was the admission that people 'Up North' routinely blame London as the cause of all their ills, whereas it is the whole of the country that is to blame, and also shares the pain.
London has always been impossibly expensive a place to live, whilst offering the greatest opportunity to fulfil your dreams. Hebden Bridge will offer you a fantastic cultural experience, but if you have ideas of building the next generation money transfer system then you need to get out and find a place where people talk the same language as you.
What the UK, and perhaps the world, needs is people who are hungry. And a society that accepts that their hunger for money and recognition is something to be values. These people are trying to build new world. People like myself do not have that hunger and we hang on to their coat-tails, hoping to get some share of their success. The problem is that there are too many people living comfortable lives going to the Hebden Bridge Trades Club and not enough would-be entrepreneurs heading off to London with their cat.
Migrating to London without a good cv is a mistake. And with a good cv, well paid jobs are available but living conditions are costly and cramped. The benefit system in the UK now allows to stay put. Get married, have kids. Encourage friends to do the same, because a circle of friends is priceless. I don't know anyone fit physically and mentality to emigrate, to go through what I went through.
Don’t know about Wilsden but expect there is no point building a hundred identikit houses in a field in a quaint but dull village without transport, jobs, amenities etc. The NIMBYs may be selfish types but we have a point, displacement by building and ruining area A while letting area B fall apart is not a proper solution. There are too many structural problems with the economy, training, energy, regulation, taxation, transport to worry about, so we set meaningless targets for house building and pretend to be creating growth.
Is Vietnam super safe and do you get a lot in terms of public services? People are free to ‘set up a business’ there but the idea won’t appeal to most.
Just like the mid 1970s . Another Fabian Society administration had bust the country again , unemployment was high , the unions were always arranging strikes , , nothing worked , etc etc . We all left then - best thing we could have done .
I don't really disagree with a lot of the sentiments here, but I think this quote worth looking at: “One in 10 students who will graduate from UK universities this summer are planning to leave the country for better job opportunities, according to a new survey.” Bearing in mind that about 25% of students in Britain are foreign, I suppose that's not that surprising.
I would have loved you to link to the video of the young man in the striped dressing gown. I can´t find it.
Here it is...I'll put the link in the article later today. https://x.com/frederickjames/status/2092947077135315389
What really caught my eye here was the admission that people 'Up North' routinely blame London as the cause of all their ills, whereas it is the whole of the country that is to blame, and also shares the pain.
London has always been impossibly expensive a place to live, whilst offering the greatest opportunity to fulfil your dreams. Hebden Bridge will offer you a fantastic cultural experience, but if you have ideas of building the next generation money transfer system then you need to get out and find a place where people talk the same language as you.
What the UK, and perhaps the world, needs is people who are hungry. And a society that accepts that their hunger for money and recognition is something to be values. These people are trying to build new world. People like myself do not have that hunger and we hang on to their coat-tails, hoping to get some share of their success. The problem is that there are too many people living comfortable lives going to the Hebden Bridge Trades Club and not enough would-be entrepreneurs heading off to London with their cat.
Migrating to London without a good cv is a mistake. And with a good cv, well paid jobs are available but living conditions are costly and cramped. The benefit system in the UK now allows to stay put. Get married, have kids. Encourage friends to do the same, because a circle of friends is priceless. I don't know anyone fit physically and mentality to emigrate, to go through what I went through.
Have you gone or are you still here?
Don’t know about Wilsden but expect there is no point building a hundred identikit houses in a field in a quaint but dull village without transport, jobs, amenities etc. The NIMBYs may be selfish types but we have a point, displacement by building and ruining area A while letting area B fall apart is not a proper solution. There are too many structural problems with the economy, training, energy, regulation, taxation, transport to worry about, so we set meaningless targets for house building and pretend to be creating growth.
Is Vietnam super safe and do you get a lot in terms of public services? People are free to ‘set up a business’ there but the idea won’t appeal to most.