London

[ijjysmith]

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

Yeah. There's definitely nothing else anywhere.

 

[ijjysmith]

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

'Full'

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

And you need to know this why?

So I know who's game for a bumming, obviously.

 

[ijjysmith]

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

Terrible people moving because of work.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

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

My borough is roughly the size (in population terms) as a city like Nottingham though, so it's not 'that' surprising

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Terrible people moving because of work.

37% of the population of London are foreign, so we must be attracting the bells from all over the world

 

[coollino]

Never get bored of peoples hatred of London because a person didn't say 'thank you' and a pint of lager is over a fiver.

 

[Kiwi]

It's in the top 1% cities in the world.

Missed two zeros there like.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Never get bored of peoples hatred of London because a person didn't say 'thank you' and a pint of lager is over a fiver.

I'd hate anywhere that was like this.

 

[Baines' left foot]

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.

I live a 15 minute walk from a 200 acre park. One of my favourite things about London is you're never too far away from a bit of nature.

Hollow Ponds boating lake in Leytonstone is lovely. Shame a dead body was found there Wednesday night!

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Right I hate London. Loads of reasons why.

First off, went there, went to get on a bus, asked how much, got the answer (whatever it was, can't remember), and like a normal person I went to pay with money.

Driver looked at me like I was an alien. "Can't pay with money." Felt like saying, "what am I supposed to pay with then, fresh air FFS" - but got told you have to have a bloody Oyster or something to get on a bus.

There is absolutely no way of knowing this unless you researched whether you can pay money on a bus in London or not beforehand, which is something you just wouldn't do.

So someone behind me pays with one of these cards so I can get on and I give him the money, although precisely why he wanted the money when in London it's apparently a bunch of useless metal I don't know. Anyway, get on, notice people looking at me like I'm stupid, ignore it, sit down.

Journey proceeds, few others make the same mistakes. Every single time the same reaction from the driver and passengers - one of stunned disbelief. I've came to the conclusion that the reason for those bloody cards might be a bit to do with convenience, a bit to do with drivers not carrying money (which makes sense as, in London, one in every two people are criminals, and those that aren't lack the imagination to be one) - no, it's basically so those living in the city can just laugh at the out of towners. That's it. Tits.

So meet someone in a pub near Kings Cross, order a drink.

"That's £7.80 mate."

"No, I said one pint."

"Yeah."

FFS. I can only imagine what they sell in Poundland in London. Half a pack of Tic Tacs, a thimble and a sock full of a tramp's piss probably. Was going to buy some pork scratchings, but didn't fancy finding out I'd have to mortgage my house to do so.

Done stuff in London, decided to walk to train station to go back to Liverpool which without any doubt resulted in me coming across the biggest bunch of tossers the world has ever known. You know in most cities were people have a bit of spatial awareness. Londoners don't. They just walk in a straight line and only a road stops them. I was carrying a laptop, ended up nearly having to use it as a shield to get through.

I always thought London was like the city everyone was trying to be as good as; that's why all other cities in the UK look the same and feel the same. But no. What it is, London is so bad that every other city is caught in the shat-tastic magnetic pull of its' gashness and are struggling for decency.

Got on the train after ducking about a thousand charity collectors ("all we're asking for is £3,000 a month - I mean come on, that's just a cup of coffee, isn't it, in London. Just your daily cup of coffee."). It starts. Air conditioner breaks. Hottest day of the year.

Someone next to me goes, "got to go back their again soon, love the city!"

Felt like smacking them.

Oh hello.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/london-pints.77231/

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I live a 15 minute walk from a 200 acre park. One of my favourite things about London is you're never too far away from a bit of nature.

Hollow Ponds boating lake in Leytonstone is lovely. Shame a dead body was found there Wednesday night!

Ah, I should have been more specific, as there are some great parks in the city. It's the mountains I love most of all, and for obvious reasons, they're not so accessible

 

[Lowste]

I think if you are young and want a vibrant city with anything and everything going on Lonon is the place.

I work in London on and off, and for me it is all too much and way to full on.

I guess being 52 I am at that age were big city life isn't for me

 

[longers]

Best city in England by an absolute mile, nowhere else in the UK comes close and i can't even begin to get my head around how anyone could think differently provided they are under the age of 35 and aren't a complete hermit.

So much more to do, amazing architecture, amazing history, every form of entertainment covered and then some, amazing nightlife which destroys everywhere else in the UK in terms of variety and options.

Everyone i know who lives here absolutely loves it, most people who hate on it seem to be on the internet and live in places which 99% of the worlds population would reject in favour of london.

Lived in Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton and Bristol... none of them have got anything on London.

 

[bigbadjeff]

I'll be in London this Thurs night, in full dress for The Rocky Horror Show.
Anybody else here going?