Katie59
I’m not agreeing or disagreeing, just throwing ideas around.
We have full employment in this area everyone is desperate for staff since EU workers left, the only jobless are unemployable, for whatever reason can’t or won’t hold down a job. All the migrants found accommodation somewhere and if more come the same will happen, many were not low paid and rented houses at the market rate, others lived in service accommodation
Nationally, we have nothing like "full employment".
I live in an area with very low unemployment (1.9%), but that's not typical - neither is your area Katie59.
The attached shows the differences in various areas. It's from the report I linked to earlier.
I looked up some more details of my area. The latest income figures I could find were for 2016, but back then approximately 15% of the working population had household incomes over £100,000 - I would guess it's higher now. That's much higher than the national average and is an indication of the divided nation we have become.
Property prices are high and public transport is poor. Most of the high earners work in the City (London) or in Cambridge (biotech). There is low paid work available, but people quite simply can't afford to live here and can't even commute to the area unless they have their own transport because we have so few buses. Those who can afford to live here will no doubt benefit from the recent tax cuts.
It would benefit the area as a whole, if jobs were available elsewhere because we wouldn't have so much pressure on infrastructure. There are other areas like mine, just as there are those where there is little well-paid work and new jobs could be created. An example would be the North East, which has a history of engineering and could become a hub for renewable technology - if there were a will to invest.