Often, the reason a location is cheaper is that the wages are lower. My parents moved to the Midlands (UK) long before I did. On one of my numerous visits from down south while looking through the local paper I exclaimed: "Wow, the rents up here are nearly half what I'm currently paying!" a couple of months later I handed in my notice, packed up my belongings and made the move it was only a few weeks later I found out the reason for the low rents, the wages were a disgrace!
Mind you, the interview process for the most basic of manual jobs was interesting: "What's your name? When can you start?" LOL
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I sold my flat in Surrey two years ago and bought a house in Hereford - nearly the Midlands!
I think these days with minimum wage, there's a bit more uniformity.
Something I don't understand is why there are ANY nurses in the South East - I mean you earn the same wage anywhere in the country (although there's probably a London weighting), so why they don't all move west and north is beyond me!
With teachers I get why you might want to live in a richer area - less behaviour issues, but with nurses, it's not as if caring for the poor is going to be harder than caring for the middle classes! Just different I would have thought.
I dunno, I suspect you get a better class of scumbag in richer areas?
So I have Twin daughters, wait for it, one is a Nurse and the other is a Teacher. LOL
The problem with Nursing is not the lack of funds, there's plenty of money and it's not the lack of vacancies there are 44,000 Nursing vacancies as of 2019 https://fullfact.org/election-2019/ask-fullfact-nhs-vacancies/
The problem is retaining (UK) trainee nurse this is why they actually did away with the bursaries. Lots of people sign up to train as nurses (Or did should I say?) but once their practical started where they had to wipe bums and mop up puke while someone was trying to stop their half severed arm from falling off the trainees started dropping out like flies. My daughter's course started at a hundred or so by the end there was five yep five that qualified out of her set so the bursary paid out for all those places which only produced five.
That's one hell of an attrition rate.
I know they employ a lot of people from abroad the NHS!
That's why they have to trawl abroad. I think we lost our backbone on Flanders fields. 😉