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I don't see how the city centre resembles anything in the south, or has a 'southern feel' at all. It's much bigger, and has a lot more concrete, and a lot more motorways. Likewise you can find affluent places anywhere that can easily rival anywhere in the South.
Yes, and Colmore Row is an attractive street, that can be found in any large northern city like Leeds, Manchester or Liverpool. What exactly is your point?
I know plenty of southerners who came here for University, and stayed here after their course ended. Even excluding Uni students, I know two people from London, who have families, who have settled up here. Likewise I'm sure many people stay on in Newcastle, that city isn't doing too badly, relatively speaking.
It's the exception to the rule, but people here (Leeds) are not moving down south, our economy is pretty buoyant. Now, places like Hull, Blackburn, Middlesbrough are a different story, but even people there are attracted to major cities in the North for work.
The cultural north/south divide in the UK isn't as extreme as in the US, but the economic divide is, and the difference is, northern England is not experiencing a boom in population, like the US south. Some cities are, but most of northern England remains firmly in the doldrums.
Newcastle has the lowest unemployment rate out of Leeds, manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool.
People may be moving to the Southern states but N and S Carolina and Florida (for eg) es all have unemployment rates that are on a par or worse then the UK and many of the towns/cities have rates that are equivalent to those in the NE of England eg Middlesboro.
People still continue to move South because of the massive difference in house prices and property taxes. In areas of NY people are paying $8000 and up per year property taxes for homes not unlike the 1920-40s 3 bed semis on small lots in the UK and they are worth half a million $ up.Similar scenario on parts of the West coast.
In NC for eg a similar house might cost $125k up to $300k in a very desirable area and the taxes will be between maybe $500 and max maybe $1200 per year.
In the UK you don't see such huge differences in property prices apart from London.
There are HUGE differences in salaries North to South and also EAST/WEST in the USA.
Average nurse (RN) salary in NC is around $57k but in California it's $85k and $74k for New York and New Jersey.
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