"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 12:15:30 on Fri, 4 Oct 2019,
tim... remarked:

I've never had to do this, but does the Unemployment office in Barking
really send people off to jobs in Heathrow? Don't they just have a list
of "local" jobs

They don't list jobs much themselves (that was the bricks and mortar model
a generation ago),

Yes I know :-)

but I didn't know whether they let you pick your own jobs from the online
list or whether they pick some for you

they police the process whereby people search a bunch of third party
jobsites to look for jobs and then report back once a fortnight[1]. And
get cross if people aren't diligent enough.

based upon quantity

AIUI, one could easily decide not to look too far in a certain direction if
there was enough stuff in the other, easier to drive to, direction

tim

In message , at 19:59:42 on Sun, 6 Oct 2019,
tim... remarked:

Average house prices surveyed he

https://media.timeout.com/images/103113857/image.jpg

I doubt very much they those are "average" prices. Some of them are
barely above the price of the lowest property available in the area.

I suggest you take that up with Timeout's writers.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 20:03:18 on Sun, 6 Oct 2019,
tim... remarked:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 12:15:30 on Fri, 4 Oct
2019, tim... remarked:

I've never had to do this, but does the Unemployment office in
Barking really send people off to jobs in Heathrow? Don't they just
have a list of "local" jobs

They don't list jobs much themselves (that was the bricks and mortar
model a generation ago),

Yes I know :-)

but I didn't know whether they let you pick your own jobs from the
online list or whether they pick some for you

They expect jobseekers to scour a number of third party lists.

they police the process whereby people search a bunch of third party
jobsites to look for jobs and then report back once a fortnight[1].
And get cross if people aren't diligent enough.

based upon quantity

Broadly speaking, yes.

AIUI, one could easily decide not to look too far in a certain
direction if there was enough stuff in the other, easier to drive to,
direction

If you have a car!

But in the absence of sufficient "local" hits, we are left with the 90
minute rule.
--
Roland Perry

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:12:41PM +0100, tim... wrote:

find me a desirable part of London where you can buy a house for 300K

Thornton Heath. Hope that helps.

Of course, I now expect an argument because "desirable" is one of those
delightfully undefined things.

--
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There is no one true indentation style,
But if there were K&R would be Its Prophets.
Peace be upon Their Holy Beards.

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:47:38
on Fri, 4 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
I repeat, it's something that lots of people have done, and lots of
people do do, so is clearly not completely unreasonable.
First you have to finds a school with places, and the good ones are
likely to be full. Even if you are turning up for the first year of
Secondary because the allocations will have been done 9mths earlier.

The children will lose their friends, places on sports teams, have a new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public exams this
can be very seriously disrupting.

And yet people do it. No matter how many reasons you can think of for
not doing it, people do it anyway, thus proving that for at least some
families it's a sensible thing to do.

Or are you going to suggest that all the people doing this are selfish
monsters who don't care about their spouses and children?

--
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Today's previously unreported paraphilia is tomorrow's Internet sensation

In message , at 11:55:53
on Mon, 7 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:47:38
on Fri, 4 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
I repeat, it's something that lots of people have done, and lots of
people do do, so is clearly not completely unreasonable.
First you have to finds a school with places, and the good ones are
likely to be full. Even if you are turning up for the first year of
Secondary because the allocations will have been done 9mths earlier.

The children will lose their friends, places on sports teams, have a new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public exams this
can be very seriously disrupting.

And yet people do it. No matter how many reasons you can think of for
not doing it, people do it anyway, thus proving that for at least some
families it's a sensible thing to do.

The most common reason for moving (and children being forced to go to a
different school, or have a very long commute) is divorce.

I expect the second most common reason is some financial disaster
befalling the family (not that divorce doesn't involve that much of the
time).

Or are you going to suggest that all the people doing this are selfish
monsters who don't care about their spouses and children?

People moving the family simply for the convenience of the breadwinner
is thankfully very rare. Weekly commuting is a compromise in many cases.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:55:53 on
Mon, 7 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:47:38
on Fri, 4 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
I repeat, it's something that lots of people have done, and lots of
people do do, so is clearly not completely unreasonable.
First you have to finds a school with places, and the good ones are
likely to be full. Even if you are turning up for the first year of
Secondary because the allocations will have been done 9mths earlier.

The children will lose their friends, places on sports teams, have a new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public exams this
can be very seriously disrupting.

And yet people do it. No matter how many reasons you can think of for
not doing it, people do it anyway, thus proving that for at least some
families it's a sensible thing to do.

The most common reason for moving (and children being forced to go to a
different school, or have a very long commute) is divorce.

I expect the second most common reason is some financial disaster

which "losing your job and having to get a new one, some miles away" falls
into

tim

On 08/10/2019 11:51, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 11:55:53
on Mon, 7 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:47:38
on Fri, 4 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
I repeat, it's something that lots of people have done, and lots of
people do do, so is clearly not completely unreasonable.
First you have to finds a school with places, and the good ones are
likely to be full. Even if you are turning up for the first year of
Secondary because the allocations will have been done 9mths earlier.

The children will lose their friends, places on sports teams, have a
new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public exams
this
can be very seriously disrupting.

And yet people do it. No matter how many reasons you can think of for
not doing it, people do it anyway, thus proving that for at least some
families it's a sensible thing to do.

The most common reason for moving (and children being forced to go to
a different school, or have a very long commute) is divorce.

I expect the second most common reason is some financial disaster

which "losing your job and having to get a new one, some miles away"
falls into

When I was 17 my father was pretty much compelled to move from London to
Solihull, just outside Birmingham. It was a case of "move or find
another job" and as at the time work wasn't exactly easy to find, he
moved. My mother, brother and I had little choice but to move with him.


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I'm astonished to learn houses in Thornton Heath are available for
as little as £300K. That has always seemed to me to be a nice area;
not Blackheath or Woodford Wells, but more than acceptable.

"Robin9" wrote in message
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I'm astonished to learn houses in Thornton Heath are available for
as little as £300K.

me too

tim