title: Workforce.
abstract: 'On your bike.' During the last big recession in the UK, that was the advice of one government minister: if you are unemployed, move to where the jobs are. We are all familiar with the north-south divide, and a sense that south east England is where the money and prospects are.
authors.affiliation: At Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buchan