"Adam Smith" wrote in message
om...

This is just typical of the situtation in London these days - people
with no
connection to the capital whatsoever are being offered jobs, and
relocating
here,

Non-Londoners in London...heaven forbid!!!


Quite.


and indiginous Londoners are forced further and further out to find
work. It makes no sense at all.

Well, actually it does if locals don't have the required skills.


I know there are people from Suffolk with exactly the same skills as me
doing the same job as me in London as I am doing in Suffolk. And inevitably
getting paid more.

I cry myself to sleep thinking about the bitter irony that is my life
sometimes.


And, yes, Bank to Hangar Lane is perfectly safe at any time, and is a
very
easy commute. Single journey on the central line.

Ahh, you finally got to the point, thanks.

I would, however, like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for
their responses, you've all (ahem ahem, most^:-)^)been really helpful
and have certainly put my mind at rest. I can't wait to move in!!


You know about the notoriously high levels of intolerance to non-Londoners
in the Hangar Lane area, right?

BTN

"Richard J." wrote in message
...

This is just typical of the situtation in London these days -
people with no connection to the capital whatsoever are being
offered jobs, and relocating here, and indiginous Londoners are
forced further and further out to find work. It makes no sense at
all.

Hmm, nice welcome to our visitor. Are you suggesting that the
recruitment process was biased against Londoners? If so, on what
evidence?


Well, for a start, the skillset of the inactive potential workforce in
London is entirely incompatible with most of the jobs that are available in
the capital, so it might not have been sensible to base the roles in London
in the first place, given the overcrowding of our infrastructure.

London suffers, because the poverty gap within the capital widens, and the
rest of the country suffers because their most talented people all end up in
London.


Go to just about any office in London, and you'll find a ragbag of
regional accents, while unemployment (or economic inactivity) in
the inner London boroughs is sky high. This problem is *far* worse
than any scaremongering about asylum seekers.

Sorry, what exactly is the problem? That some people outside London
have had the courage and initiative to move in order to find suitable
employment?


Did I have courage and initiative when I moved to take my job then? Of
course not - At a time when I needed a job, I went out and got one, and took
all the **** that goes with it. Gave me a nice chip on my shoulder too.


And, yes, Bank to Hangar Lane is perfectly safe at any time, and is
a very easy commute. Single journey on the central line. Not ****ing
bus-tube-tube-intercity-cab like *my* journey into work.

Your choice, presumably. Still, you've apparently got a job that
enables you to take time off to access this NG, so it's not that bad.


No, it's a pretty good job.

Just very irritating that I had to move out of London for it when there are
****loads of similar roles in London going to non-Londoners. Including, I
suspect, people from around here.

BTN

How safe is the tube at about 11pm?

Speaking as a semi-regular tourist, just keep your wits about you as you
would in any major city and you'll be fine. Know where you're going (or fake
it well), keep your valuables close at hand, and be aware of what's going on
around you without being paranoid.

When I was lost a couple of times in the city, I'd stop for some tea or hot
chocolate, and use that time to get my bearings. A company called Pop-Out
Maps makes a good credit-card-sized one that has the central city in some
detail along with a basic Tube map for that area. It folds up quickly and is
discreet, almost spy-like.

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In message , Fustanella
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How safe is the tube at about 11pm?

Speaking as a semi-regular tourist, just keep your wits about you as you
would in any major city and you'll be fine. Know where you're going (or fake
it well), keep your valuables close at hand, and be aware of what's going on
around you without being paranoid.

Speaking as someone who gets asked about "safety" by clients all the
time, I have to say that that's the best precis of advice I've seen in a
long time.
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Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Speaking as someone who gets asked about "safety" by clients all the
time, I have to say that that's the best precis of advice I've seen in a
long time.

Thank you very much. It's served me well from Atlanta to London and points
in between - the worst that's happened so far was a religious nut on the DC
metro trying to strike up a
"friendly" chat.