Can it be right that people are forced into 'internal exile' just because they're poor?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17821018

Would Londoners sent almost 200 miles from their usual haunts suffer cultural shock?

[Old_Geezer]

Similar thread. Same basic issue. http://www.theanswerb.../Question1127736.html

[tonyav]

Keep em south of Watford Gap.

[daffy654]

You should live where you can afford to live. People who buy houses have to purchase within their budget even if it means moving, renters should do the same.

[Nibble]

That's the pricing issue with private rental properies in the south, the cost of renting in the London area is disproportionate to the actual house, but it's the effect of demand and supply, i.e people needing a house will always pay whatever the market requires. Even though this would be many times what the market demands in another area, London has always had a different set of demands on its housing stock, as opposed to another area.

[237SJ]

I don`t think this is the first time it has happened. I seem to remember housing shortages causing people to be sent to seaside B&Bs in the past. Although it`s not good for people to be forced away from their areas, it`s not good for the receiving towns either. Those practices turned places like Ilfracombe into Dole-on Sea.

[mrsmaveric]

well they are on about sending some of them here to stoke on trent,you just know that these people will be benefit claiming immigrants who are at the bottom of any social housing list...do we want them here in stoke on trent??...well i for one dont...we have enough immigrants here as it is as the local population have been more than an accomodating in making them feel welcome in the past..well apart from a couple of local nutters trying to blow a mosque up that is...

[emmie]

i am not sure about culture shock, but i would be very put out if this was suggested. Though our rents are well within government guidelines.

[emmie]

as i have mentioned before, many who came to this borough from overseas, who had large families have been housed ahead of people who may have been waiting on the housing list for years. This info was imparted by a friend who works for the local authority. That was not fair, and it still isn't.

[jomifl]

Depends on the person, I moved 500 miles to SW. Franceto retire, my sister(retired) wouldn't move more than 10 miles when she could buy a house.

[Snafu03]

will be even rougher on the people living in these areas having all these no-hopers dumped on their doorsteps.

[commoner]

IMO all the ones from overseas who have never contributed and can't pay their way should be moved just far enough for their feet to touch the soil of their respective homelands....can't see how they could possibly complain about that :-)

[ummmm]

How do we know they don't work? They could be on low incomes doing jobs that the indigence population turn their noses up at.

[emmie]

ah that old chestnut, indigenous people, whilst many on here don't even know what that means.