Arthur wrote:In order to have an affluent population there need to be highly paid jobs that can provide a high level of disposable income.
According to the Office for National Statistics (Oct 2020) 24% of employees had been working only from home since 22 September. For many people commuting daily to an expensive office space is over.
One question DDC should be asking is how to attract these people, many in extremely high paid jobs, to make their home in Dover.
Who wants to live in London any more, saddled with an enormous mortgage, when you could live near the sea, AONBs, Grammar Schools, Golf Courses and cheap housing with great connections to London by HS1 for the odd occasion you really, really need a face to face meeting?
They could be enjoying a much better life down here surely? At least until the bean counters realise that if a job can be done 'anywhere' it's a lot cheaper to get it done in Bangalore (India produces over 160,000 computer science engineering graduates each year, the UK produces just over 30,000!)