Problem is with the lack of council funding and the deregulation of Council investment it has created a stupidly risky situation where councils tried to invest money to cover the central shortfall and got completely wrecked by the poor market.
Devops is a nice skill to have for a backend developer, however I’m not sure it is fair on your friend if you take a role you don’t really want and might not perform well in.
Man I wish openreach would somehow upgrade, I miss having Virgins speeds but their custom service was shocking and their engineering shocking, chopped my cable and couldn’t repull it after 4 months…
FTTP is amazing, but I’d take stable openreach 80/20 over virgin / 4G fallback
It’s very sad, Lee Valley whilst nice is a long way to travel by public transport, all of the old crew are there though.
Sometimes it’s better that places like this become tourist traps with local monetary interest otherwise they end up getting vandalised or used to dump rubbish.