Fuck London

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I think the secret of being happy in London is finding your little area, get to know it really well, get your mates to live round there too is poss, don't go to far a field cos its stressy, avoid centre wherever poss, have a decent commute to work, shop in the little shops near you, go to all the amazing stuff that is on, keep a keen eye on all websites etc for free stuff and then you kind of have the experience of living somewhere a bit smaller but with the resources of a huge city. Basically be dead parochial!

this is 200% on point. I have arranged my life similarly, with the exception that my friends live all over, annoyingly.

one thing i can't STAND about london/the worst thing for me: people are so obsessed with being 'busy'/'booked up' it makes it acceptable/the norm to talk to someone as an appointment rather than a human being. I'm glad I have a few good friends who don't behave like this. Contemporary alienation, innit. :slanted:
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Is that why at most nights I go to in London it feels as if half the people are there just to kill time before the next night?

My favourite thing about London is complaining about it like a country bumpkin to Londonders. ''Woi carnt you boy a point fer lers tharn foive quard?''
 

alex

Do not read this.
london is nang, purely for the drunk jokes you can have going from A to B on the tube, friday night.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
unless you make the horrific mistake of being completely sober yourself. Saturday night (particularly) sober in central London is like taking your protective glasses off during an atomic explosion.

(x-post, obv)
 

alex

Do not read this.
cor yea, Leicester Sq is fucked on saturday's.

That witherspoons is heaving like 95% of the week. From opening until close!
 

bassnation

the abyss
it's dirty and it smells. yeah it's got some big parks but even right in the centre it still smells of buses. and you pay through the nose for the privelidge of living in place where you have to pay through the nose to get public transport anywhere. even at night in the centre it's busier than leicester on a saturday afternoon.

london is the only place i have seen a woman cough phlegm onto herself and not clean it off.

london is the only place where i have seen tramps fishing empty sweet wrappers out of bins for crumbs with crowds of people around.

i can get everything i want in the midlands and all with added advantages of things like hills, countryside, the ability to breathe fresh air, see the stars.

i can understand if you grew up there. i can't understand ever moving there.

oh really? well i grew up in wales and i've lived variously in the north west of england, home counties and london. i've seen things outside of london (and esp. in wales) which seriously make me doubt the future of the human race, no joke.

and sure, there's poverty and deprivation in london, but where isn't there? its highly disingenous and somewhat ludicrous to suggest that the midlands doesn't have its fair share of problems. are you saying there aren't council estates, child abuse, homelessness, drugs, alcoholics? i call bullshit on that one. i actually leave london from time to time and the behaviour of people in small towns never fails to stagger me sorry.

and the reason why i moved to london was to get away from those exact same small towns. even birmingham seems ludicrously parochial to me. the only place where i'd want to go after this is NYC. it certainly ain't going to be wolverhampton, or dudley. birmingham city centre looks like it was designed by a team of blind misanthropes, unbelievably ugly (but nice people, i have to say).

and i also want to call bullshit on the glib secondhand insult of london being unfriendly. if people wander out of the areas mostly populated by tourists and maybe venture down to south london you will find its a hell of a lot more real than some commentators give it credit for. where i live in tulse hill, i know everyone. people say hello in the street. its a community. so much shit is spoken about the capital i don't know where to start in terms of rebuttals.
 
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benjybars

village elder.
one of the reasons i went there cos i grew up in cornwall, there were quite a few ok jungle nights etc there when i was at uni but too much of it waas bukem.

when i went uni i remember thinking most of the students who weren't from London were basically idiots..

i'm a bit of a london snob really and i just look down on anyone who isn't from London and think they're worthless, uncultured and haven't got a clue what's going on... haha.
(not really. only a bit)

although.. i think scousers are fantastic. they're all amazing (apart from Slackk ;))

anyway, fuck west london!
 

scottdisco

rip this joint please
price of success..

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just a bit of fun, don't necessarily agree w' it all!
 
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continuum

smugpolice
I like London and if I was to move it would be there. Most of my school friends moved there from Milton Keynes (often cited as a London overflow town). Oxford where I live is great though and I find it a nice balance between countryside and city life. The central areas of Oxford are very much like London (cosmopolitan, touristy etc.) but you don't have to go too far to get completely away from that if you want to.
 

mixed_biscuits

_________________________
How the fuck did Dallas get in Beta? It's a rubbish place, nothing but soulless convention hotels. The only good bit is the Kennedy Museum (which seems a bit wrong, but hey, that's Dallas)

I don't think it's meant to be assessing the settlements' 'worth', saying whether somewhere is stylish or exciting; it's an assessment of each place's connectedness to other places viz: The connectivity measures are used to classify cities into levels of world city network integration.

That Dallas has lots of hotels says something for its connectivity.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Dallas is presumably connected to Huston, and Huston is connected to SPACE.

Re. unfriendly Londoners: I don't really see this. I mean, yeah, it's often packed on the tube and the busses, but considering the severity of the congestion I think you see fights and arguments surprisingly seldom. And so what if people don't talk to each other - do you really want every nutter giving you his life story while you're trying to read your book on the way home?

Sounds like sufi had a shitty time trying to get through the West End during the evening rush hour - well of course it's horrible, that's the West End all over, it's tourist-packed, overpriced tat from one end to the other. But it's ludicrous not to give London credit for its other aspects and areas, you know, the ones that are actually good...

For me, the wost bits of London are how little of the tube network actually runs at the weekends, and how noisy it is at night where I live. Emergency vehicles screeching down Bow Road with sirens blazing, lairy rudeboy dicks yelling their heads off at all hours, the constant alarms, drunk knobs coming home at three in the morning making a fucking racket all over the place...probably hard to avoid this in any decent-sized town or city, though.
 
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bassnation

the abyss
I'm London born n bred.

I still really like it here but I like other places too, I'm not too bothered, and getting defensive about places is stupid.

It helps me to get out of London / where I am alot - even just for a day - or if not have big spaces you can live in or hang around in. It's all about claustrophobia I think. And if you are feeling claustrophobic and can't get out, just look at some footage of India and then London suddenly all seems really empty and serene.

i know loads of londoners. my girlfriend is 2nd generation british jamacian, born and brought up in london. most of my mates were born in london. my ex wife is from london. i'm a welsh ex-pat obviously and i also know people from every corner of the globe who live here, but there are still lots of true londoners.
 
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