Tell a Northerner about London

[Roadkill]

Then why don't you move back to Hull...? You could probably save your money and buy a mansion, or not have to work for several years...

For the simple reason that if I do, it's game over for everything I've worked towards for the last five years.

@Chrisfilter, and there was me thinking I'd not had a good rant about the place in a while. I was asked for my opinion, and I gave it. What's up with that? Besides, to each their own: you're entitled to like the place as much as I am to hate it. Bear in mind that I find all the laudatory posts about London as odd as you find my criticisms of it...

 

[marty21]

Roadkill

come to the hackney drinks next month, maybe we can tempt you to move to our beautiful borough

 

[Roadkill]

Roadkill

come to the hackney drinks next month, maybe we can tempt you to move to our beautiful borough

I suspect if I respond to this thread much more I'll just get up the noses of the London-loving crew even more than I already have.

Odd how the fans of a place that styles itself as the greatest city in the country, or the whole of Europe, are so defensive when they come across someone who doesn't think much of it. Maybe that attitude is everywhere, but it's only on here I come across it: I know many other people in London whose opinion of the place is as low as mine is.

 

[marty21]

I suspect if I respond to this thread much more I'll just get up the noses of the London-loving crew even more than I already have.

Odd how the fans of a place that styles itself as the greatest city in the country, or the whole of Europe, are so defensive when they come across someone who doesn't think much of it.

i haven't got a problem with people not liking london, i didn't like it for the first couple of years

it gets better after 15 years here

 

[hipipol]

Roadkill

You just sound really ground down by the sheer size of the place mate - which in truth gets to everybody to varying degrees. To find our current hideyhole near some trees without costing arms/legs/sale of soul signed in own blood took months of wandering over hills, down endless crap streets etc. but now it feels much better - even hear birds in the morning!!!!!!!!
Spring cometh etc it might not look so bad then
Good luck

 

[Belushi]

You just sound really ground down by the sheer size of the place mate - which in truth gets to everybody to varying degrees. To find our current hideyhole near some trees without costing arms/legs/sale of soul signed in own blood took months of wandering over hills, down endless crap streets etc. but now it feels much better - even hear birds in the morning!!!!!!!!
Spring cometh etc it might not look so bad then
Good luck

Innit. You learn to love London or else Roadkill

 

[Roadkill]

You just sound really ground down by the sheer size of the place mate

Not the size: more like the expense, the hassle, the attitude, the things I commented on in a couple of previous posts ... and a few things in real life I don't want to go into.

 

[Yossarian]

I suspect if I respond to this thread much more I'll just get up the noses of the London-loving crew even more than I already have.

Odd how the fans of a place that styles itself as the greatest city in the country, or the whole of Europe, are so defensive when they come across someone who doesn't think much of it. Maybe that attitude is everywhere, but it's only on here I come across it: I know many other people in London whose opinion of the place is as low as mine is.

How do you react to people running down Hull? Do you glumly agree that it's crap, or point out the many good things about the place?

There's a lot of crap things about London and a lot of good ones, I'm moving away in the very near future and I reckon there's enough good things about the place that I'm going to miss it, and enough crap things that I'll be in no hurry at all to ever move back, but if you can't find enough good things here to make your stay an enjoyable one either you're not trying, or you should cut your losses and move elsewhere because living somewhere you hate is no way to spend a life, IMO.

 

[Calva dosser]

Lived there 30 odd years. Don't miss it for a second. But them I'm a burned out old fart.

I used to still like the 'secret' bits, like the deserted nature reserve at the back of Hackney cycle track. That's all been bulldosed for the olympics though.

No ones mentioned Islington and Stokey have they? bit wanky, but excellent for mooching and boozing, and New River Walk in spring, when the terrapins are chasing the ducklings. Excellent sport.

 

[jæd]

For the simple reason that if I do, it's game over for everything I've worked towards for the last five years.

So... You're stuck here in then...? Might as well try and enjoy the place...!

 

[LDR]

I love London and think it's the best city in the world.

So there you go.

 

[sunflower]

I love London and think it's the best city in the world.

So there you go.

Why are you leaving then?

 

[LDR]

My Good Lady Wife is making me.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I do miss London, but i find once back there I start getting wound up after a couple of days. It's great to have some secret places innit though. Reading in the sun at the Holland Park entrance to Holland Park is teh cool.
Listening to the water feature in Hammersmith Park.
Walks along the river and a decent roast in a fullers pub.

London can be great, but you have to work at it. I am sure there are some very lonely people in the middle of all the chaos.

 

[Errol's son]

I moved to London from Nottingham in 1989. One thing that's always seemed unique to me down here is how you can get a road lined with £1 million pound houses on one side and a big run down council estate on the other.

It really is a mixed bag but I would say that the really wealthy areas are Highgate, Hampstead Heath, Belsize Park and Primrose Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, Knightsbridge, St Johns Wood, Barnes, Mayfair and Belgravia, Holland Park.

The poorer areas tend to be more East and South East London. The gloomiest place I've been to is North Woolwich - you don't get much more depressing than that. The worst areas for gun crime in recent years has been South London and Hackney.

I would add Putney, Barnes, Wimbledon, Kingston, Richmond, even East Sheen to the posh places. I put a new bathroom in a house in East Sheen in February and it was a fairly horrible red-brick new build worth well over a million. It really can't have cost much to build.

 

[Truepioneer]

It's a city of extremes and contrasts.

Can be really good or it can be really bad.

I can burn you out.

Despite that I still find it interesting and enjoyable.

 

[ringo]

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.”

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)