Are young people, especially creatives, as excited about London, as driven to live in it, as people like me once were? The answer appears to be a very firm no, and, for the first time, I get it. Yet another creative exodus appears to be under way, this time from London to Glasgow. Estate agents are reporting a significant spike in interest from Londoners. Prices have risen by 28% since 2019. Glasgow is a magnet for the alternative sensibility.
Dynamic and artist friendly, the: “It feels like in London you have to be constantly running on this hamster wheel … In Glasgow, there’s more time to be creative.” Creatives getting the chance to be creative? Imagine that.. It almost doesn’t matter where; the shift is that people have stopped dreaming of getting to London, and now dream of getting away from it. And these aren’t the old and knackered, who feel they’ve completed their stint in the metropolitan salt mines. These are young and youngish creatives. They’ve been burnt out, priced out, bummed out and now they’re getting ou