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lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers · 3 years

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It's not strictly about the approval needed for infrastructure, it's about a community that used to fund itself now not being able to do that.

In terms of teacher training - my school had a fuck ton of trainees and at the start of each new year the teachers who oversaw a lot of things would comment on how they moved further south for better salaries, I don't think all the way to the proper South because if the cost of living, I think areas south of us were just more able to give raises.

I don't think the south is doing fine, just that there is a range of industry that helped the transition away from mining that the south didn't have as much.

I usually say benefits but I've seen too many people saying that there shouldn't be "benefits" for not having a job because having a job is meant to being good things if that makes sense? The people that think those on benefits don't struggle. I find using other words makes them see benefits as a baseline not as some sort of extra perk.

Anyway, my opinions are just opinions and I just think it's good to hear from different people.

I’m going to continue to challenge this point about teachers, because I don’t think it’s true. School funding is crap everywhere in the UK, and nearly all of the areas that have the worst funding are in what would be considered “the south”.

I think it’s more to the point that communities with high levels of joblessness and poverty are depressing places, and people usually want to leave if they can. I don’t think it’s about salary, per se- it’s about living in a place that feels desirable and nice to live.

Post industrial areas of the south are still in decline. The areas where there are other jobs aren’t, generally, ex-industrial areas. And I think that’s true of the North, as well.

I accept your point about “benefits”, but I don’t think “welfare” is a good word to use either. It has a lot of negative connotations (although I accept “benefits” does too)- and I think it also implies a level of “taken care of” that universal credit just doesn’t provide. Universal credit is often below the baseline needed to survive, hence the increasing need for foodbanks in the UK.

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