Other popular destinations included Bristol, which welcomed 4,210 people from London, and Manchester which attracted 4,150 incomers from the capital. At £482,000, average London house prices remain more than double those in the rest of the UK – £223,000. Councils are sending homeless families out of the capital to cheaper properties at the rate of more than 2,000 a year. They included two families moved 280 miles north to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunderland, another two families to Merseyside, five to Bradford in West Yorkshire and 32 to the West Midlands. “The pace of life is crazy and it sweeps you up in this whirlpool of social life, work, never being home.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2017 12:00 UTC