Mike Mitchell wrote in message ...


But it's much more
difficult to persuade thousands of families to move, with all the
concommitant issues of work, relatives, roots, schooling, friends to
take account of.


Not difficult at all. It was done in the 1950's, they were called "new
Towns" and moved many thousands of mainly young people from overcrowded
urban conditions to rural areas where work was made available. Then we were
stupid enough to build more council houses in the urban areas and provide
cheap taxpayer funded transport, surprise, surprise, you get the overcrowded
urban living conditions of today.

Regards
Capitol