Yeah, there’s no doubt parts of the north are absolutely grim. If anyone thinks Liverpool is bad, well… try going to some of these old Yorkshire pit villages like Featherstone, where everyone has been on smack since 1984.
The point I was making was really just… imagine you are say, a retail store manager (a median-income job in the UK), if you are in Liverpool, you could be living in Mossley Hill or Aigburth, a well-to-do suburb with plenty of green space and doing some quite pleasant things with your weekend like hanging around cafes having brunch, basically an easy-going middle class lifestyle, whereas if you were doing the same job in London your life would be much less pleasant - probably living in some absolute hole like Erith and commuting in to the West End on packed, expensive trains every day, running the gauntlet of stabbings and estate crime in the evening (if you even go out).
I mean, no offence Ed, you’re clearly from a wealthy family and you have a white collar job, and you only bought your first property last year (with a leaky roof).
