Facing sky-high costs, it’s no wonder that struggling artists are opting for cities like Glasgow
Are young people, especially creatives, as excited about London, as driven to live in it, as people like me once were? The answer appears to be a very firm no, and, for the first time, I get it.
This is the real London for too many of those with any kind of arty disposition. Financial pressure acting as a spreading stain across their life. The kind of anxiety that drowns creativity in a bucket. It makes living the counterculture dream very hard. Too hard. Let’s be real: it makes it impossible.
Look at any list of artists from these eras, and chances are they spent time signing on and/or living in squatsformed twin pillars of creative freedom, producing a vibrant subculture that arguably became the culture. However, in 2012, squatting in residential buildings was. And, these days, people are forced off benefits into soul-sapping grunt work: sometimes several jobs just to survive . Basically, they’re exhausted before anything else can happen.
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