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Originally Posted by 10023
In my purely anecdotal experience, people don't generally move from London to other major cities in the UK unless they're going back where they came from. Maybe some move for jobs, but generally the outmigration from London is people will small children who move to suburbia or "the country" (villages and small towns, which may still be well within commuting range when necessary if not every single day... the line between the two is quite blurred of course), or perhaps small cities for various reasons. I know people who have moved from London to smaller cities like Oxford, Cambridge and Bournemouth, but no one that's moved to the next 3 or 4 largest cities.
I would expect that other major cities also experience net domestic outmigration, with population growth coming from international immigration.
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I took a look at the latest figures on internal migration for the year to June 2015 and for the whole of the London LUZ of 13.7m there were 308,070 people who moved out of that area during the year to other parts of the UK.
Breaking it down to where they went:
Other parts of Southeast England region beyond the LUZ: 104,820 (34.0%)
of which South Hampshire conurbation of Southampton/Portsmouth: 9,400
Other parts of Eastern England region beyond the LUZ: 52,230 (17.0%)
Southwest England region: 41,210 (13.4%)
of which Greater Bristol area: 10,430
East Midlands region: 24,350 (7.9%)
of which Greater Nottingham/Derby region: 7,900
West Midlands region: 24,230 (7.9%)
of which West Midlands County/Greater Birmingham: 16,890
Northwest England region: 18,850 (6.1%)
of which Greater Manchester: 9,890 and Merseyside/Greater Liverpool 3,290
Yorkshire/Humber region: 16,030 (5.2%)
of which West Yorkshire (Leeds/Bradford area): 7,970 and South Yorkshire (Sheffield area): 3,750
Scotland: 10,190 (3.3%)
Wales: 7,910 (2.6%)
Northeast England region: 6,260 (2.0%)
of which Tyne & Wear (Greater Newcastle-upon-Tyne): 2,710
Northern Ireland: 1,990 (0.6%)
So for all those other main cities I mentioned specifically they had a total of 72,230 people moving there from the London LUZ that year, just under a quarter of the total numbers moving out. So just over 3/4 people moving out of the London LUZ were moving to smaller cities, towns or rural locations.
In terms of broad regions just over half moved out into the two regions geographically adjacent to the London LUZ, Southeast England and Eastern England.
'Greater Southeast England' (SE+E): 157,050 (51.0%)
West Country and Wales: 49,120 (15.9%)
English Midlands: 48,890 (15.8%)
Northern England: 41,140 (13.4%)
Scotland and NI: 12,180 (4.0%)