• AutoTL;DRB
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    51 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    More than four in five 16- to 18-year-olds say they need to move from their areas for better opportunities, including more than 90% of those surveyed in the north-east, Yorkshire and the east of England.

    A survey of 2,000 people carried out by the Social Mobility Foundation found that on average more than 85% felt they needed to leave.

    Tom Brennan, 18, who lives in Ipswich, said: “To be honest, the biggest thing going for the town is its proximity to London.

    Lisa Nandy, the shadow cabinet minister for international development, said young people were being forced “to get out to get on [as] the home towns they leave behind have suffered”.

    She said young people “will no longer have to choose between home and family and seeking new opportunities” under Labour’s aim for the UK to achieve the highest sustained growth in the G7 which would “provide good jobs across the country”.

    Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said the findings were “extremely worrying”.


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    • @M500@lemmy.ml
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      41 year ago

      I think young people everywhere feel like that.

      Life is expensive everywhere.