This is a bit of a theoretical question still, and I realise that the UK borders to the outside world remain open at this time. See for example this recent post.
Still, the thought occurred to me yesterday when Scotland published a document around its Coronavirus exit strategy. There's been a bit of jockeying between Nicola Sturgeon and Matt Hancock since then, but that doesn't seem to have eased the underlying tensions. The two nations opening up at different rates, or otherwise out of sync, seems like a real possibility.
So I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this. For example, will people pop over to Scotland to shop if equivalent stores are closed in England? Wales? Are any businesses planning for this eventuality?
Any thoughts you might have would be most welcome.
Edit - thanks to everyone who gave advice in this post, it was super helpful. I got a job and will be headed up to Glasgow in April. See you then :)
Hello all :)
I'm moving up to Glasgow from the south coast of England in a few months (very very exciting) and currently work clinically for the NHS. I've got a few interviews lined up and in my interview prep have come across some major (and better IMO) differences in the Scottish NHS that I just didn't know were there. I knew that the NHS is generally better funded and protected up there, but I hadn't realised the scope of how differently services are set up.
A couple to start you off:
In England, any provider can bid for NHS services, even 'for profit' ones (which is why Virgin Healthcare run loads of NHS services). I've worked for a public-private partnership and it is a nightmare - although it was still free for patients, the profit 'bottom line' infused EVERYTHING, and the culture was very businessy. Seems like in Scotland this isn't a thing (the competition for who runs services?).
We have 200+ clinical commissioning groups who are mostly GPs, and they decide where the money goes (as opposed to your Health Boards). This leads to a LOT of variety between places across England.
What other differences or issues do people think it would be useful to know about? Anything is interesting (and useful, from an interview point of view).
Hey guys I'm m23 from aus. A little background I recently had a close death in the family and my gf broke up with me. I've decided bugger it I want to change life up and move overseas for a while. As an aussy it's super easy to live in the UK for a while.
I'm a bartender and don't mind a drink so nightlifes important. I'm also pretty outgoing and appreciate a fun loving crowd. I'm just wondering does anyone have any advice on a homebase to work from. I'm currently tossing up between Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and Brighton but I don't know shit about these places other than that Google makes them sound cool. Any ideas are appreciated and I'd love to hear general advice too.
Edit I'm a knob Dublin isn't possible I should of known that
I usually start with searching for United Kingdom, but today I needed to check in for an upcoming ferry trip, and I noticed that the list was in alphabetical order....sort of. In the end, we were under 'Create Britain' within the G's, but beneath Greece Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
