How many people are leaving London (spoiler: lots!)

[MagsJ (Surya Loka)]

Courtesy of TimeOut magazine:

This map shows how many people are leaving London (spoiler: lots!)

Noticed a bit more room on the bus recently? According to the latest ONS figures on net migration within Britain, London’s experiencing something of an exodus.

In the year to June 2015 we lost nine in every 1,000 residents to internal migration – that’s people moving to other parts of the UK. To put that in context, Yorkshire and Humber, the second fastest-shrinking area, lost 0.4.

Havering, Bromley, Bexley and Sutton were the only boroughs to draw in more new residents than they lost, while Waltham Forest, Newham and Brent saw the most significant declines. Young families in particular are thought to be abandoning the capital in favour of more affordable locations in the south-west and Essex. In fact one of the most popular places for people to move to within Britain was (drum roll, please)… Tendring. Wherever that is.

But even though London had a net outflow of 77,000 people to other UK destinations, that was more than cancelled out by the 78,000 more births than deaths, and 133,000 more foreign immigrants than emigrants. Looks like you’ll be standing on the bus after all.

I did notice more room on the buses and tubes… indeed, I could even sit down more for most of my journeys, as the birth rate ain’t gonna affect those, and the migrant numbers don’t seem to be affecting them either.

Is this a current trend in all big cities? in yours’?

Is there really a mass exodus, or is it just a current short-lived trend?

[Fixed_Cross]

London is defecating & taking a glorious dump now, shitting out all the parasites that it had in it from the EU… who are either indigestable poison or just prefab shits that now find their natural course into the toilet.

Everyone thats leaving now would be a piece of shit. On the flipside, people of real power and worth will now consider a move to England.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Being taken out the E.U. England’s special tax haven status has been called into question.

The rats are fleeing ship and probably headed to Dublin now nearby.