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by phatfish 2369 days ago
No idea if these statistics reflect reality or are just cherry picked, but one of the problems that England has is attempting to cram a everyone into the only city attracts top businesses and talent and then ship them out again. Daily.

Germany for example has multiple cities with over 1 in million population that are attractive for business and distribute resources and infrastructure. England has London with around ~7 million in population then Birmingham at 0.9.

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The greater Manchester area has a population of 2.5 million.