London

[Baines' left foot]

Oh god no. My whopper spotting is sound thanks. Works when I'm up north too.

No whoppers up North mate. They're all in London.

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

Oh god no. My whopper spotting is sound thanks. Works when I'm up north too.

Up north? Are you saying that all northerners are the same? Bad racist you

 

[ijjysmith]

No whoppers up North mate. They're all in London.

This guy really harmed you lot.

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

This guy really harmed you lot.

Where does he live? Yep, you guessed it London.
London attracts bells from all over the country.

 

[sageyefc]

Lacks freindlyness and warmth. Tbf theres one or two good people you can come across but theyre few and far between in my experience

 

[degsy]

meh

 

[Tree13]

Or perhaps living down south you have become immune to whopperism, and it's no longer a culture shock.

Au contraire, most Southerners feel absolutely no affinity to London and Londoners whatsoever - Someone said earlier that London feels more like a Principality than a city and the more I think about that remark, the more I agree. Londoners don't look at Southerners and see anything they can identify with; for Londoners it's a stark and simple "them and us" situation, with the M25 serving as a border.

The worst bit is when someone who was born in a quiet leafy Sussex village moves to London, becomes a douchebag and then occasionally comes back to visit - they will invariably start complaining loudly about the fact that there's nowhere to get (not "buy", they never "buy" anything, they always "get" things) a decaf soya triple macchiato with low-fat hipster pretensions at 7am on a Sunday morning - oblivious to the fact that no-one outside of London gives a toss about such lookatme lookatme consumerist bullshine. No, actually the worst bit is when they try to pay in the village shop for a pint of milk using their contactless apple pay spunk gargle technology, and the woman behind the counter gets treated like pond life for having the gall to ask for actual cash.

And they push up house prices in every pretty village or market town in a ninety-mile radius of London. Asshats.

 

[Tree13]

It's just a big and pretentious Norwich. Avoid.

Can't think of two places more different to each other than London and Norwich!

 

[Eggs]

.....have to go to London occasionally for work and I think it's a fabulous city. Love that little walk from The Strand through Trafalgar Square along Whitehall, left before Westminster Bridge and along the Embankment.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

I like it myself, never understood the idea it's a dirty unfriendly place any different to other cities in anyway.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Londinium smells. And all the politicians live there.

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

.....have to go to London occasionally for work and I think it's a fabulous city. Love that little walk from The Strand through Trafalgar Square along Whitehall, left before Westminster Bridge and along the Embankment.

It's a great city to visit. For the touristy things like you mention, it's just full of ponces.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's amazing how all 9 million people in London, even the ones from every country on the planet, are all the same

Of course, London isn't perfect, and I do miss easier access to nature, and the pace can be overwhelming, but within a 30 minute walk of my house I have (off the top of my head):

3 world class hospitals
2 mainline stations
3 universities
The Old Vic, the Globe and a shed load of other theatres
2 swimming pools, with another due to open this winter
The Oval cricket ground
Major employers such as IBM, Shell, ITV, the FT and NHS England
Tate Modern, the Southbank Centre, the BFI and Royal Festival Hall
Several parks, with things dozens of tennis courts, football pitches, BMX tracks etc.
The London Eye and Tower Bridge
and if I walk quickly you can add Westerminster, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery and Covent Garden
and several tube stations to make anything further afield a doddle to get to

Heck, that one stretch of road at King's Cross has 3 mainline stations, including access to France, the Wellcome Trust, UCL, the British Library, the Crick Institute, Future Learn and shortly Google.

So whilst it's not perfect, I can't imagine any other city on Earth offering such a rich array of possibilities.

 

[magicjuan]

London is great to visit for a weekend. I couldn't live there though, full of the most self centred, lacking a sense of humour, pretentious bells on the planet. It doesn't mean all Londoners are born this way, I believe London attracts these bells from other towns and cities. It's acts as a social magnet for bell ends., which we should be grateful for.

Also, in Liverpool you can tell if someone is gay or straight, in London even the straight fellas look gay.

And you need to know this why?

 

[magicjuan]

It's amazing how all 9 million people in London, even the ones from every country on the planet, are all the same lol

Of course, London isn't perfect, and I do miss easier access to nature, and the pace can be overwhelming, but within a 30 minute walk of my house I have (off the top of my head):

3 world class hospitals
2 mainline stations
3 universities
The Old Vic, the Globe and a shed load of other theatres
2 swimming pools, with another due to open this winter
The Oval cricket ground
Major employers such as IBM, Shell, ITV, the FT and NHS England
Tate Modern, the Southbank Centre, the BFI and Royal Festival Hall
Several parks, with things dozens of tennis courts, football pitches, BMX tracks etc.
The London Eye and Tower Bridge
and if I walk quickly you can add Westerminster, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery and Covent Garden
and several tube stations to make anything further afield a doddle to get to

Heck, that one stretch of road at King's Cross has 3 mainline stations, including access to France, the Wellcome Trust, UCL, the British Library, the Crick Institute, Future Learn and shortly Google.

So whilst it's not perfect, I can't imagine any other city on Earth offering such a rich array of possibilities.

At the cost of the rest of the country getting sod all...