London is a handful of very pleasant millionaire villages - Primrose Hill, Hampstead & Highgate, Ken + Chel etc - surrounded by terraced Edwardian worker slums.
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.
The other smaller startup city is Cambridge, which in some ways is even worse - less dense housing and a complete lack of decent transport links in of any kind, because all our transportation centers on London.
Finance seems to be a big employer here - obviously not on the scale of the City but proportionally (Edinburgh isn't that big) it's a fairly high percentage of jobs.
Don't think I've ever seen "sexy" and "actuarial" used together :-)
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.
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.