...UK residents trying to move there is very wrongheaded--as is trying to move London's growth to other northern cities.
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London got to where it is with strong *local* business growth, not by getting transplant after transplant from more successful cities.
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And are impotent to solve, b/c London has what those northern cities do not--which is why people try to live there, etc
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Be that as it may, the northern cities can't be made suddenly desirable by fiat--London's size is a crucial part of what makes it desirable
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London didn't get to where it is today by "attracting" industry & wealth, but by *creating* it, and that creative capacity is what drew ppl
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I increasingly think the best thing we could do would be to move the capital to Manchester. Government, we can move.
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Yes, moving the government is feasible--moving the economy is not
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