[Jochim]

It wasn't really a landslide though.

The winners only received ~1.5٪ more votes than their previous "disastrous" result.

The gains were largely due to the incumbent Tory votes being split by Reform, an extremely anti-immigration populist party.

> as an outsider, UK housing prices outside of London are actually quite affordable.

Much like Arkansas/Mississipi, both opportunity and salary are much lower than high CoL areas like London/California.

Both rent and house prices in the UK have far outstripped our comparable neighbours and are causing real issues for people.

New build housing is energy efficient but of poor quality and extremely expensive, often furnished with unusably small rooms.

[CuriouslyC]

A lot of Americans are going to cheap parts of the south because of the flexibility of work, but with global warming I think the English countryside is going to be nicer, and the locals are more open and quant in my opinion than their Arkansas/Mississippi counterparts.