Moving away ?
36 % of young people say they don ' t intend to live near where they do now once they have finished their education .
10 % fewer young people want to stay near by than when we asked in our original survey . Again the wording of this question was slightly different when we asked this time , on this survey we specified within 50km of where respondents live now where we did not specify a distance in the first survey .
We broke this question down by vulnerabilities . We found that 47 % of those of a mental health condition said they planned to move away , an increase of 9 %. Members of the LGBTQ + community are 11 % more likely to move away with 49 % saying they planned to move away . And , although no more said they planned to move away , more respondents who received pupil premium or free school meals were unsure of where they would live .
We asked young people why they would move away from where they currently live as a follow up question on both surveys . To go university was by far the most popular option on both surveys , but this option increased in popularity by 9 % in our latest survey ! This is strange when slightly fewer young people said they were planning to go to university . The next most popular was to get a job that isn ' t offered locally at 42 % which ranked the same on both surveys .
On the second survey we tweaked a few of the options according to the comments we had in the " other , please specify " section of the original survey . Two of these options that ranked highly and made it as options on the second survey were to travel internationally and to move abroad . On this survey , 29 % of young people said they would travel internationally and 24 % said they would leave where they live now to live abroad .
Other comments in the other please specify section were focussed around Dorset , Bournemouth , Christchurch , Poole and Hampshire being perceived by young people as a quiet and boring places to live .
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