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Courtesy of the living pen of Rosie Brooks. This is posted in celebration of my new job, and consequent rise in salary, which I have achieved without having to a) move to London or b) commute to London. Hurrah!

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  1. jo | 27 October 2005 7:12 pm

    Hurrah indeed! :)

  2. Steve | 28 October 2005 2:29 pm

    why do you never post about racism? Presumably you do not care about it as it affects men as well as women

  3. Antonia | 28 October 2005 2:32 pm

    Steve,

    I do, for example here and here.

  4. Tim Roll-Pickering | 28 October 2005 4:38 pm

    What’s wrong with London? It’s a fantastic place! (And yes, I have both lived and commuted there.)

  5. Antonia | 28 October 2005 4:51 pm

    Nothing wrong with London at all - until you move out and realise the quality of life you can have elsewhere. (And I’m from London and proud of my home city - I just don’t want to live there).

  6. Jo | 28 October 2005 4:54 pm

    It’s crowded and smelly and expensive… And it’s too far from the rest of the country :)

  7. Tim Roll-Pickering | 28 October 2005 11:10 pm

    London has great quality of life. It has everything a person could ever need - great people, great places, great open spaces, easy to get round most of it, great restaurants - the lot.

    And it’s hardly “too far from the rest of the country” - it took me only two hours to get from London to Belfast yesterday. What part of the UK can boast shorter travel times to everywhere?

    Tim - proud to be London born, taught and resident.

  8. Justin | 28 October 2005 11:25 pm

    On London:

    http://justinhorton.blogspot.com/2005/10/no-particular-place.html

  9. Jane Tomlinson | 31 October 2005 6:12 pm

    Congratulations Antonia! Can’t wait for you to join our team.

    And especially delighted you won’t have to leave Oxford - best place in the world to live.

  10. Emma | 31 October 2005 7:31 pm

    Congratulations, Antonia!

    (Every time I manage to get another job that doesn’t involve leaving the city I love and moving to London I mentally pat myself on the back. Do you not fear that the day will come, though?)

  11. Antonia | 31 October 2005 8:39 pm

    Hello Emma,

    Yes, unfortunately, the day will come when in order to do what I want to I’ll have to move (or, more likely, commute) to London. But I’m putting it off for as long as I can, because I quite like having evenings, thank you very much, and because (it may sound stupid) but I like the local Labour party here, and they seem to like me. Having a congenial CLP is so important, don’t you think?!

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