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In the UK it is very much survival of the fittest except you are competing against everyone in the world. If you can't manage that competition you will inevitably be pushed out of London or any of the major cities and very quickly find yourself at the bottom of the social ladder. The UK is a free for all and naturally more people have become exploitive or desperate because of it.

[graemep]

Not living in a major city puts you at the bottom of the social ladder? Wow.

A lot of people living outside major cities seem to have a better quality of live than those in them.

[Havoc]

Not sure social ladder per GP is quite the right phrase but in UK London vs not-London definitely has a pretty sharp divide that is noticeable. Especially in terms of type of jobs

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It is where most of the economic activity is. Many parts of the UK are poor.

[nephihaha]

London is probably the most subsidised part of the UK although it pretends to be the opposite. It does produce vast amounts of money but also because its infrastructure etc is maintained and it is constantly promoted via the TV etc.

[robtherobber]

That's an interesting take, which contradicts what I know. I'd be interested in reading some specialist literature on that.