Job market is awful

That's because the kind of jobs that 16 year olds could do in an office no longer exist. There are no typists, filing clerks, mail clerks, etc any more. About the only office job available to school leavers now is receptionist, and even then that is less accessible than it was as most larger companies will want someone who is multilingual and very polished.

I wanted to live in England as I thought it would be nice, but I have been unhappy in my life since Ive moved here.

The main thing: is the people. I start to feel like I'm living in a weird zombieland

In other countries, people are so friendly, kind chatty. They help each other along.

In England, many people I've met have been cold, unempathetic and seem completely unable to have a chat.

I went to Ireland last week. I went to a shop.I had never met the person working there. She heard me cough. She said 'ah do you have a cold you poor pet, I had one last week'. Then she started chatting about something else. Just a minor chatty interaaction with a stranger. i went into a cafe then, and the woman also chatted away.

Ive lived in the same town in England for two years. The people have always been unfriendly. I've gone to the same local shop for years. If I mention the weather or anything to get a small bit of chat going, they glare at me. So now I don't say anything.

A woman that I work with has an Italian student staying with her for the summer.

She said the student turned to her and said 'why are the people so weird here in England'

It's the unfriendliness that needs to be changed.

I work in HR and this has a name...restructure by attrition. Basically see how you make do after people leave as you can't get budget to backfill. We even have a list of not to replace roles already identified, although at least we are not at the point of enforcing redundancies

Because China, despite being at the forefront of automation, has by far the worlds largest manufacturing industry and required literally millions of engineers and product designers to keep that industry at the forefront of innovation.

They need this strategy at my local council….there are lots of roles they could do without and others that are vital but under-resourced e.g. bin lorry drivers and loaders.