About three-quarters of English job growth last year was in London and its hinterlands, but high prices make it hard for people to move there from less favoured spots.
A divergence in housing prices between wealthy cities and the hinterland is a familiar problem in other countries—just look at London and Lincolnshire, say, or New York and Nebraska.
If they are wrong, the newish ceo may have little choice but to consider reducing Amazon's exposure to some of the more peripheral parts of its hinterland.
The hinterland, which is to say its international business, includes dozens of countries, from Japan to India, parts of western Europe and elsewhere, that punch well below their weight.
This, of course, was Anthony's idea—Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a shadowy hinterland.
Cloaked in the gossamer wings of audacity and aspiration, he embarked upon a voyage that would traverse vast continents, spanning the opulent waterways of Venice to the enigmatic hinterlands of the East.