On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 18:33 -0300, Ricky Clarkson wrote: [ . . . ] > If I still lived in the UK I'd have been aiming for London, as there's > something I like about not having to drive everywhere and the culture > it forms, plus the proximity to some of the programmers I'd most like > to learn from.
Having lived and worked in London for 28 years, 23 of them in our current 1 bed flat in Clapham Junction, I am biased: Commuting in the standard commuting hours, really, really, really sucks. So don't do it. Ensure you get some form of flexitime so you can arrange travel to be comfortable. Cars are only for use when you travel from London to somewhere else outside London, and it always takes 30mins to get out. We could sell our 1-bed flat and buy a street of houses in Leeds. Getting good Internet in the leafy countryside generally requires spending a lot of money to get a fibre line put in. Being in the city there are lots of high speed systems. But this only really matters for folk like me who work from home. Unless you want to join the "get all entertainment by streaming" community. The flexibility of living in the city beats the joy of living in woodland. We live next to a cemetery, so we have trees, robins, blue tits, great tits, foxes, woodpigeons, magpies, jays. Almost like being in real woodland. London has the majority of technical activity, user groups, meetings, etc. LJC is an EC member -- represented by Ben and Martijn mostly, but its a serious lively and growing bunch of folk. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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