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Moving Back to London and 2023 Review

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The elephant in the room for me reading this article, is that the income the author reports for his projects is nowhere near enough to live in London.

Does he explain that elsewhere? Is he living off savings while building new income streams?

“Work has continued apace on my existing projects and client work of course.” (Emphasis mine)

I can’t believe how much energy some people have! Good for him

i assume the reason they went was for a job, no?

How can one person do all those things in a year and raise kids. And move countries with them. Please share your secret.

People I know that do this usually offload kids to kindergarten, hire nanny or let SO handle them. Or combination of above.

Cut out the stuff you don’t value, the amount of stuff you can do when you don’t own a TV and never visit news or social media sites[1] is astounding.

The downside is your reply to any questions like “have you seen <popular show>?” will perpetually be blank stare, shrug

[1] 1 exception - a ruthlessly curated rss feed reader, and this site - although i’m experimenting with using this site via a “best of” aggregation feed. For all popular stories here there are a 2nd wave of thoughtful posters who arrive to a thread a day or 2 late. I’m thinking they are also filtering similarly but i have never asked.

One cannot. One or more of those things is suffering, and I hope it's not his kids, though people like this usually delegate childcare to their spouse or paid care.

Not sure how this got upvoted. Title is a click-bait and makes you believe this is about London the place whereas it’s mostly about this guy side projects.

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I was hoping for more about the geographical move. I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering why someone would move TO London right now, given all the issues people are currently facing in the UK.

London is an attractive world city. Population grows about 1% per year.

London has a number of advantages:

* Lots of people speak English, so London is easy to emigrate to from that perspective - no need to learn a new language to be able to live there

* It's a massive business centre and as such it's possible to find work in all sorts of domains, relatively well paid (relatively to the rest of the UK, but not enough to actually afford to buy housing for most people)

* It has a lot going on in terms of entertainment - there are bars, clubs, sports, music performances, standup comedy, theatre, cinemas, etc.

* It is big and relatively well connected, with varying advantages and disadvantages (you can live in a house with a garden or an apartment in a skyscraper, and anything in between, and still be "in London" and at least decently connected to where work and entertainment is... if you can afford it)

* You won't be the only immigrant, so it's much easier to "blend in"

Downsides are that the weather is pretty bad, and housing is absurdly expensive.

Well, there was also that Brexit thing.

That has made little difference to London.

Yes, it's harder for EU citizens to move there, but the pool of people happy to move to London for work is vast and global. No longer being in the EU can be a downside depending on the business but in general, as a service-based economy operating globally, London is just carrying on undeterred.

Except all the extra costs and red tape when doing business with the EU.

Which depends on the business and, again, which is not a killer issue when you are doing business globally... For instance, in financial services the UK is still the world first exporter and does more business with the US than with the EU to begin with: doing business with the US is also 'extra costs and red tape' and yet it is thriving...

London is likely going to be the least effected area of the UK by Brexit, which is ironic given the leave/remain vote distributions.

The real problems are not for global businesses, but for small businesses that lost access to a market around the size of the US (on their doorstep no less) with effectively zero trade restrictions.

Global businesses can eat the red tape required to access external markets, others take a hit to profitability or simply can't survive selling into the UK market alone.

Hopefully this can be slowly reversed otherwise the UK will see a drop in home grown businesses that had the potential to grow organically and stay based in the UK. I foresee small businesses getting bought out more frequently by overseas competitors because they couldn't grow fast enough in the UK alone.

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