Well, as an Edinburgh resident I'm personally mystified as to why anyone would want to live in London! :-)
[NB Of course there are perfectly good reasons for wanting to live in London - just never appealed to me!]
[NB Of course there are perfectly good reasons for wanting to live in London - just never appealed to me!]
There's also been a new build boom in the East. Some areas were almost affordable for a while.
The big advantage compared to the rest of the UK is networking potential. Even the biggest competing cities - Manchester, Birmingham - are an order of magnitude less happening. And places like Leeds and Swindon have almost nothing at all.
The UK has really screwed the proverbial pooch here. Compared to traditional industry, Internet and creative businesses have huge potential for almost no infrastructure spend, and can create jobs almost everywhere.
Aggressively promoting startups across the country should have been a no-brainer. But... that's not what we got.
Would love to Live in Edinburgh - but the world's laundered money doesn't flow through Edinburgh :(
What do all the actuaries do in Edinburgh then - I've seen to have known loads of them over the years! Or is pensions/life stuff not on the "sexy" side of things?
Of the places I know employ actuaries in Edinburgh: Standard Life, Scottish Widows, Royal London... and there are quite a few consulting actuary companies around as well.