Doesn't anyone get to go where they want to go?
By the way TJFC, I left home 10 years ago! This would be a career change for me. More a case of having a wife and a home in Cheshire and us both wanting to come back here eventually. Thanks for the advice anyway and to all the others who took the time to add something.
By the way, a long wait for what if posted to NERC? A transfer? Validation? For the place to become operational??!!
Someone told me about a friend who qualified from Bournemouth not so long ago who apparently laid it on thick for a compassionate posting to Manchester and got it. Anyone any experiences of that?