Those of you who moved to Swanwick must know this better than most. But your move (although I am sure had many difficulties) was a better option than those Mancunians who are being asked to move to a totally different environment.
What is totally different about the environment? Did I fall through some dimensional wormhole to a place where Manchester had traded places with Athens, Sydney or Las Vegas??
Last I saw, both Manchester and Ayr/Glasgow were areas in the west of the UK where it rains a lot, people grumble about the same government, use the same currency and the public transport is never on time.
I do sympathise with the families of those who are moving, who will have to find new jobs and new schools etc... but it can't really have come as a surprise that it would be required.