Things you'd miss about London

[Firky]

I miss teapea for some stupid reason
I also miss the endless supply of things to take photographs of
I miss the little curios that you only get in London like the Jewish Christian church
I miss the food

I could go on but the list of what I don't miss will always be bigger than what I do miss! My biggest complaint about London was it was a mission to get into an area where you're alone, you have to travel at least two hours outside of London to the likes of the New Forest before you experience some proper rural england. I'm born and bred in the country and as much as I hate it, I love it!

 

[Firky]

I LOVE going over the Thames, walking, in a cab, at dawn fucked out of my tiny mind or whatever.. I <3 The Thames

Yeah, man. Although I get shivers up my spine when I go over the railway bridge in Newcastle, crossing over the tyne and looking at the quayside.

<3 Newcastle for its bridges, they're as iconic to Newcastle as the Tower Bridge is to London.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Waitrose. Decent clubs. The Tate Modern. Soho, especially the Coach and Horses. That's about it really - I left three years ago and haven't missed it enough to visit in the last two. Last time I went back I noticed how grubby it all looked. I loved it for 12 of the 13 years I lived there - I'm more of a seaside person now (getting older ). I'm glad I got out when it started making me miserable though.

 

[jbob]

I left London about 4 years ago, and doubt I'll be able to afford to return. I missed it terribly for the first few years, but just recently, I've begun to miss the place less and less. I still pop down a few times a year, and I've felt a bit weird and disconnected from it all. Seems too busy and noisy, which is what I used to love about it.

Now I'm living in a smaller city, I will say that I agree with the opinion that there is a general air of tolerance and safety that you have in many parts of London, that is absent from a great deal of England. Friday nights in the city centre where I am are well dodgy, which is something it took a while to adjust to (i.e. stop going out on Friday night!).

I do miss several pubs in London. There's some really classic boozers down there, hopefully the relentless drive of the gastropub and flat development won't render them extinct

The main thing I miss is having decent cinemas showing non-blockbuster films. London is stacked with 'em, in the provinces it is a little trickier.

Other than that, the cost of the place and how different it's become in the last 10-15 years - a playground for home counties snobs - just makes me angry now, so my love affair with it all is departing.

 

[wrysmile]

Riding my bike across bridges and looking out on the Thames and the south bank, Westminster etc on a sunny day, picnics in the park in summer, nightlife, the huge variety of places to eat, drink, party. Galleries and the amount of fantastic free stuff, architecture, the city's grand and amazing history that makes you proud to be a part of it and call it home. The loads of green space in central London, which sets it apart from most other European capitals - you're not even allowed to sit on the grass in a lot of them! The friends I've made, kept and the incredibly different types of people I've met and spent time with and learned from. As Han said earlier, the tolerance and open-mindedness of many (not all) people in the capital - the fact that mostly you can wear, do and say whatever the you like and no one bats an eyelid.

I know there's plenty of shit things about London, but I love it more than anywhere else I've ever lived. I was just thinking about this the other day... I have such an abiding affection for London, that I don't think I've had for anywhere else - as a city, I mean. Quite simply, London rawks

 

[Orang Utan]

Yay!

 

[Kanda]

Walking back across the river in the early hours after a club when spannered and watching the Sun come up

 

[Kanda]

Fuck, just realised I'd already posted... I'm spannered

 

[Numbers]

Riding my bike across bridges and looking out on the Thames and the south bank, Westminster etc on a sunny day, picnics in the park in summer, nightlife, the huge variety of places to eat, drink, party. Galleries and the amount of fantastic free stuff, architecture, the city's grand and amazing history that makes you proud to be a part of it and call it home. The loads of green space in central London, which sets it apart from most other European capitals - you're not even allowed to sit on the grass in a lot of them! The friends I've made, kept and the incredibly different types of people I've met and spent time with and learned from. As Han said earlier, the tolerance and open-mindedness of many (not all) people in the capital - the fact that mostly you can wear, do and say whatever the you like and no one bats an eyelid.

I know there's plenty of shit things about London, but I love it more than anywhere else I've ever lived. I was just thinking about this the other day... I have such an abiding affection for London, that I don't think I've had for anywhere else - as a city, I mean. Quite simply, London rawks

Pretty much sums up my thoughts exactly.

London is a brilliant place where you can do brilliant things with brilliant people. You learn so much about so many things.

I like going back to where I still call home in Ireland, but London is my home and I always love coming back whenever I've been away.

 

[pennimania]

Having lived in Skye for about 5 years , but still being able to return frequently until last year - when I rented my house...

I only miss - walthamstow market and relatively cheap restaurants.

mr mania misses the local pub.

I do not miss dirt, bad manners and overcrowded streets.

But I am rather middle aged

 

[lunatrick]

it's just a london thing......I miss the buzz you get from being slap bang at the heart of the known universe...I used to be able to see the London eye from my desk and walk around the southbank at lunchtime......then I was working in covent garden and so could stroll around soho in my lunchtime..........the world class clubs - all night long at the end being my favourite...the relentless buzz, and the feeling of history right below your feet. Famous iconoclastic images that appear in music and film time and time again.

 

[brokenyolk]

i do miss some of the oomph but i do not at all miss the urgh. until i left london i wasn't quite so aware of how much urgh there was.

when i get back in a few weeks time i shall be mostly going to the tate, eating a d.bess patty, window-shopping records at sounds of the universe and strolling through wonderful brockwell park. oh and going to offline at the albert.

 

[jbob]

i do miss some of the oomph but i do not at all miss the urgh. until i left london i wasn't quite so aware of how much urgh there was.

Nicely put That sums it up for me. When I go back now, I can feel my blood pressure rising, and not in the good way that I used to have when I lived there and say left for a weekend and came back. Now there's a taint of dread and exasperation, which is not good.

Having said that, it's alright once I get outside of central London itself, and in more kinda local-ish places. It's the crammed up-ishness that does me now.

 

[Yossarian]

I´m going to miss certain people, certain pubs, free festivals in summer, etc, but I can´t think of anything unique to London that I´ll miss except perhaps the range of live music on offer. I don´t think there´s another city in the UK I´d want to live in for long though...

 

[Fidel]

I have been gone for 3 years now, sold my place and now live outside of the UK.

I now dont really miss anything, but the first couple of years I missed loads.


Sloshing
Friends
Drugs
Night life
Food
Notting Hill Carnival
Riding my bike
Certain streets
People
Shops
The River
Parks
History

 

[London_Calling]

The criss-crossing between hugely diverse social/cultural groupings. Totally unique to London.

 

[dash_two]

Born and raised here, what I'd miss would depend on where I was moving to. Probably decent food, you can get any kind here. If I could get a cushy little job in another city in Britain I'd probably move tomorrow. London is for young people and rich people.