oh, and the first comment for the article you cited:
" John, Fife, 1 year ago
It’s really no surprise because the good people of London are so much more sophisticated, intelligent, hard working and much better looking than everyone else in the UK. The rest of us are so lazy and gormless. Why wouldn’t anyone want to live in London with such fabulous people. The fact that London tax payers are supporting the resut of us has nothing at all to do with the fact that most of the investment in infrastructure, financial and other service industries and everything else is in London."
hear hear.