To ask, if you work in the Civil Service/ BBC etc in London and the SE and are asked to move North will you?

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Ok, I know this might be a bit niche.

Following on from the recent announcements of Treasury and Department of International Trade jobs moving to Darlington and BBC jobs going to Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow, I was wondering if people currently in those jobs (or anyone else who might be asked to move out of London) will/would move?

If you would move - why?
If you wouldn't move - why?

My reason for asking is that I'm in the North and I'm trying to work out if all these announcements are genuinely a good thing for the economy or if the only real beneficiaries will be LNER and the regional Premier Inns for a couple of nights a week.

If this was the other way around, and someone asked me to relocate from the North East down to London, then I wouldn't. I'd have much more expensive housing costs and a lower standard of living in London. Any 'London weighting' doesn't seem to make up those costs from what I've seen!

Perhaps. I'm from Manchester, but it would be a big decision for DH (it would more likely be his job).

I’ve got a friend in the Treasury who reckons it’ll be a mandatory ‘stint’ for more junior roles. He is genuinely considering buying a house up in Darlington to rent out the rooms to junior civil servants who’ll live in it while doing their ‘time’ up there before returning back down to London. As such I’m skeptical about it changing much up there!

Also it would be an even bigger decision for the girls just now (one GCSE year and one in Y7).

I don't know. I'm a Northerner, but since I was a child and first visited London, I wanted to live here. And I do, and I now work in the civil service, and I've made my life and had my family here. I have no desire to move back to where I came from, I love it here.

However, I also love what I do for a living. If it moved, I'd have to consider it. DH's job is pretty portable, and the kids are still young and so fairly movable. But I don't know. I'm not sure the job would be enough for me to leave the place I'm most comfortable living. I didn't grow up here, but it's my home.

The SCS I have discussed it with all seem to be experiencing only negatives and having difficulty recruiting for roles which are London excluded.
@NotAnotherUserNumber that will change gradually as it becomes more normal for civil service jobs to be available around the country.