Why are there never any threads about averagely earning northerners moving south with a budget of £200k ?

[Helenpshapiro]

It’s like the Escape to the country programme. It’s invariably individuals or couples leaving the south east to get that barn conversion for half the price and ‘the quieter pace of life’. The traffic seems to be all one way and northerners, unless in a really well paid profession, will never get the opportunity to move to the south east just because they can.
How can the whole of a country develop and prosper if the wealth imbalance is so great ?

It depends where your starting point is and where you are going!
If you mean from a shithole in Burnley to a detached suburb in Sussex, then nope!

I moved from the Lake District to south Shropshire, so a pretty long stride south for me, personally. No cost difference in my own experience.

Yeah but we have to pretend it's grim so that no more of the buggers come (and push our house prices up) 😁

Tbf it depends where you live. Parts of the north are truly grim but no southerner would ever boast about living there.