>> [But then, "London" now covers about 25% of all the land space in the 
>> UK, so...]
> 
> Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be 
> rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's 
> the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone 
> according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
> 
> That's interesting, I've never had cause to work it out before and it's 
> actually bigger than I imagined.

Pretty big, eh?

I'm told in ancient times, "London" was a small town in the edges of the 
Thames river. Since then it's grown, swallowing other towns around it, 
until now it makes up a significant fraction of the whole country.

> I couldn't comment on the proportion of the IT sector that resides 
> there, however. :-)

Like I said, I think 80% of *all* employment is in London. Certainly if 
you ask Monster for jobs, almost all of them are from London. And it 
doesn't seem to matter *what* kind of jobs you ask for!

[Then again, when I changed Monster to search by postcode rather than 
geographic area, it started giving me jobs only from Canada, so maybe 
Monster is just defective!]

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