leaving london for good....
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clandestino
no llevar papel
but
Have you ever been there before ?
Best of luck
No...
My job title is on the key workers list so we can get fast tracked (erm...less than 12 months!) for entry into Canada.... Vancouver is voted as 4th best place in the world to live. It's cheaper than here, we could afford to buy somewhere decent there, so we figured, sod it, let's go!
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
Word of warning - my sis was on the key worker list (she works for the Canadian health service as a senior speach therapist) It wasn't as easy as she was led to believe and the red tape was unbelivable, however, she is there now and once she arrived buying a house and settling in was easy
You're right. Total shitpile.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Nice place, but too full of try hard wankers. Everyone you meet is a DJ or a designer - when in reality they work in a cafe or at Amex.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
clandestino
no llevar papel
So where, if anywhere, is Brixton-on-sea?
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
RubyBlue
faded and jaded
^ yeah - years ago I would've liked to live there but not now - shitpile is right!
clandestino
no llevar papel
It's the best city in the UK and one of the best in Europe.
If it had warm weather it would be one of the best in the world (IMO). Sadly the grey skies make it suck a lot of the time - even here in Newcastle, while it's bollock freezing, there are quite a lot of nice blue sky ice cold days
If it had warm weather it would be one of the best in the world (IMO). Sadly the grey skies make it suck a lot of the time - even here in Newcastle, while it's bollock freezing, there are quite a lot of nice blue sky ice cold days
To think that in the mid 80s it was a proper rundown old seaside resort with not much going for it...
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
I think it's a reaction to the whole Brighton mind set which usually is slightly "look down your nose" at London/Londoners, and an absurd belief that Brighton is the equal culturally etc of London.
We've got 2012 fairly firmly pencilled in - Kyser wants to see the Olympics before we go. We'll move to Oz, can't decide what city though, although there's a few years to think about it. Work/family stuff will determine it in the end probably. But I love London so much, I'll leave a part of me here. And I can't quite imagine being anywhere else just now - such a fine city, for all her faults. I loves her!
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
You're probably right. I love St Kilda.
Ydah, me too. One day I'll live there again.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
The prob I suspect it that London generally reckons it can look down its nose at EVERYWHERE else and it causes great probs when anyone does the same back!!!
Brighton is basically Kensington-on-Sea with a silghtly higher ratio of Dorothies mates like - other than than its proximity to London it wouldn't have the kudos it does, but it aint a bad place
Siblings often argue and the younger one has to put up a bit of a fight to get noticed.........
hipipol
Peckham Wry
For a minute there I thought you were on about St Hilda's
"Girls who board live in one of 10 boarding houses. There are four senior houses (for the Sixth Form girls) and six junior houses (for 11-16 year olds). The junior houses are St. Helen's, Farnley Lodge, Glenlee, Sidney Lodge, St. Austin's, St. Margaret's and the senior houses are St. Hilda's, Beale, Cambray and Elizabeth." - this from Wiki
I suddenly realised why you seemed so familiar as I had several young gropes with lasses from Cheltenham Ladies College
As it was the Schools 155th Anniversary on the 13th of this month - it seemed rather apposite
5t3IIa
Registered User
The prob I suspect it that London generally reckons it can look down its nose at EVERYWHERE else and it causes great probs when anyone does the same back!!!
Brighton is basically Kensington-on-Sea with a silghtly higher ratio of Dorothies mates like - other than than its proximity to London it wouldn't have the kudos it does, but it aint a bad place
Siblings often argue and the younger one has to put up a bit of a fight to get noticed.........
I think Brighton is a bit more Hackney-on-Sea mixed with Studentville.
At the risk of being an old fart it was amazing techno fun in the 90's but fell victim/self-selected right into the house price madness and is now a very specialised kind of dump. You can't make London money in Brighton but you can pay London prices. Plus it's teeny tiny for a 'city'. You can walk from one side of town to the other in an hour.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
The prob I suspect it that London generally reckons it can look down its nose at EVERYWHERE else and it causes great probs when anyone does the same back!!!
Brighton is basically Kensington-on-Sea with a silghtly higher ratio of Dorothies mates like - other than than its proximity to London it wouldn't have the kudos it does, but it aint a bad place
Siblings often argue and the younger one has to put up a bit of a fight to get noticed.........
thing is that when I moved back up to London, I did a fairly innoculous blog for myself, pretty much detailing me dealing with my father's death, and what free things I could blag myself into, for which I was harrased by an ex-work collegue. Pretty much his justification was that I was wrong to like London so much, and that London really couldn't hold a candle to Brighton. That's one of the reasons why I find the whole Brighton attitude so risable.
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
I prefer Hastings
Brighton had it's moments for certain in the 90s and now it's all a bit crap...Hastings is however, keeping it real!
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
hahaha... no... I lived there for 13 years, and I just think London is much better in every way apart from having a seaside and the rolling downs on your door step (but then again that's what the train is for).
