[Gllug] VACANCY: MySQL Database Architect (Reading, Berkshire, UK)

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:16 +0000, Martyn Drake wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is why I think it really sucks to set up companies outside London
> > and people should really be told so. There was a company at the end of
> > last year that actually relocated to London because they simply couldn't
> > get the talent they needed outside (albeit this was a small company and
> > therefore easier to do).
> 
> Oh, I don't know.
> 
> For the past seven months I've been working for an award winning
> managed dedicated hosting company based in Guildford which hosts quite
> a few big name clients.  The company has been going since 2000 and is
> based at the Surrey Research Park (and still is).  I commute each day
> by electric pushbike paid for by the company.  It takes me 40 minutes
> to get in, 40 minutes out door to door.  Compare that to commuting to
> London each day which took nearly 2 hours each way from Woking - door
> to door.

My experience is similar to yours (though slightly different in that I
burned diesel).  

For six of the last ten years, I've worked on contracts outside London
(Kent, Berkshire, Kent again and then Cambridgeshire), whilst living in
Muswell Hill, and found that I could get to each of these areas more
quickly than I could get to my current job in central London!  

My current job demands that I mostly use public transport, which -
despite the claims of the Mayors - is stupidly slow.  The plans for the
Olympic debacle are going to reduce London's road capacity even further,
probably to the point that I'll be looking for jobs outside the M25
again!

Chris

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