(c) Indietravel
They came third and fifth with London and Manchester at 1 and 2. Frankly, I’m astonished that anyone thinks London would a better place to live. This is, of course, from Insider. Here’s a short extract and the usual list of related reports on the attractiveness of Scotland’s cities:
‘The results prove the importance UK workers place on maintaining a healthy work-life balance when considering their place of work. The study, conducted by totaljobs, also shows that the three key motivations for moving within the UK are better lifestyle (42%), increased employment opportunities (38%) and living in a desirable area (32%).’
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https://www.insider.co.uk/news/edinburgh-glasgow-top-five-cities-12977566
Edinburgh:
Edinburgh best place for technology in UK?
Glasgow and Edinburgh push London into third place in tourism hotspots survey
‘Edinburgh tops list of most influential small cities in Europe’
‘Edinburgh among the best for equality’
Value of top Edinburgh hotels grows significantly faster than rest of Europe
Best UK city for inward investment is Edinburgh
Glasgow:
More real economic strength revealed as demand for Glasgow office space increases dramatically
‘Glasgow named top convention spot for a record 12th year in a row’
Dundee:
Is Dundee ‘punchin’? The only UK location in Lonely Planet’s top ten
It’s Dundee hitting the headlines for all the right reasons and not for the first time this year
‘University of Dundee is UK’s highest ranked institution for influencing innovation’
Aberdeen:
Aberdeen 20: Dundee 12? The competition for Europe’s largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses
Aberdeen University makes ‘step-change’ advance in MRI scanning
Scotland’s economic growth evident in increased passenger numbers at Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports
Talking-up Scotland 
maybe the trend of having to leave Scotland to seek employment ,any employment is at last starting to turn , that raises the question why , why are all meaningful government departments in the south , why is all the car industry based in the south, it looks like one country has fist dibs on everything , It starts with Tourism the main entry point is Heath-row who in turn promote English destinations , Then this recent trend of sticking a Union flag on everything that is made and associated with Scotland , isn’t what they have enough for them ? do they need to try and assimilate everything and grab it for themselves .
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And ever will be so , much bigger nation in England , trade goes to where bigger populations are , that’s why Scotland needs to build on it’s small to medium businesses ,become more specialised . The Union Jackery we see on goods will only work if we buy them , I don’t , in fact I go out of my way to find an alternative .
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London has to be considered in a different light from the rest of `England and the South East. Most people who live and work in London were not born there, with a very high proportion being born overseas. The last census indicated that less than 50% of the residents of London had English as thirn first language. So, a large proportion of the people who live and work there have made a wilful choice to do so.
For many of the London residents who hail from other parts of the UK and Ireland, the choice has often had a strong element of compulsion because of the skewing of the UK economy, by all governments since c1976, towards the financial sector in London and the South East and the havoc wrought by the Thatcher Government on manufacturing in the Midlands, North, Scotland and Wales. The military campaign waged by the ‘British’ in Northern Ireland for over 30 years put that economy in shtook.
It is this skewing of the shape of the economy and the pillaging of the economies of the rest of the UK to provide infrastructure for London and to pay obscene wages and salaries to those in the financial sector and to encourage ‘non dom’ freeboooters to launder their money in London, that, as much as anything else, convinced me that Scotland had to become independent. (Strangling Kirk Meenisters with the last copies of the Sunday Post had minimal influence on me.)
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