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Roland Perry · October 4th 19, 10:32 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 10:47:38
on Fri, 4 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:56:27AM +0000, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:43:48 +0100
David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:39:40PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
And moving house to be near a job, especially one like Heathrow, isn't
a walk in the park.
It's something that vast numbers of people did in the past, and that a
lot of people still do. I've done it myself.
Not quite so easy if you have a spouse who also works and kids who go
to school.
Are they supposed to just up sticks because you've had enough of your
commute?

I repeat, it's something that lots of people have done, and lots of
people do do, so is clearly not completely unreasonable.

First you have to finds a school with places, and the good ones are
likely to be full. Even if you are turning up for the first year of
Secondary because the allocations will have been done 9mths earlier.

The children will lose their friends, places on sports teams, have a new
set of teachers, strange classmates, quite likely a different syllabus
with some subjects not available, and in the run-up to public exams this
can be very seriously disrupting.

Picking things up part-way through an academic year just makes it worse.

Buying new school uniforms is just a drop in the ocean.

A family is all about compromise though and I don't pretend, unlike
some people on the internet, to have The Answer For Everyone.

A lot of people move to be near a school they want for their children.
That's a compromise where parents likely have a longer commute.
--
Roland Perry

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