The great northern brain drain: 'I daydream about moving back'

Every year, thousands of graduates leave the north to live in London. Two writers reflect on their own journeys south; one who found a new community and another who couldn’t resist the pull of home ‘At first, it was a disaster’: northern readers on moving to LondonPromises of a “northern powerhouse” have been challenged by figures that show a decade-long north-south brain drain, with up to 310,000 graduates leaving the north to move to southern cities, despite the f