The author obviously doesn't live in London. I could never afford to pay rent without a job.
The article is idealistic bullshit.
The article is idealistic bullshit.
As i understand it, the situation in the US is that there is Silicon Valley, where the salaries are high and the rents higher, and then half a dozen other places where there are significant concentrations of software jobs, and more reasonable living costs.
This is not really the case in the UK. There's London, there's a ring of big corporate offices just outside London (Guildford, Cheshunt, places like that), and that's more or less it. You pretty much need to live in London or its commuter belt to work non-remotely in software.
I get a lot of recruiter spam from UK recruiters, but truth be told, don't think I've ever got an email where the minimum offered was lower than £45k for London while for anywhere else the maximum range was £45-50k
There are enough companies hiring remote workers these days that I can't understand why anybody in England continues to put up with comically low and out of touch with reality London rates.
There's certainly enough remote work going for you to find a job. Or for everyone reading this page to do so. But there are over 100 000 people working in IT in London. Are there 100 000 remote jobs available?
Also keep in mind that every developer job is a remote one. It may not be advertised that way, but if you've proven that you're good at what you do and you decide to move out of your felt cube and claim back your quality of life, your company will find a way to accommodate that (if they're smart enough to do the simple arithmetic to calculate what it would cost to replace you in this market).