Len Rum
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I have a 'view on' London.
But not a 'relationship with' London.
Bit of a poncey thread title really.
But not a 'relationship with' London.
Bit of a poncey thread title really.
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How would you describe your relationship with London?
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Blue Til Death
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I'm in London a couple of times a week for work and cant stand the place, not even close to Manchester in any way, shape or form...!
Blue Til Death
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Me and my Manchester love affair have come to an end, i'm at the point in life where there is nothing left for me here so am making the move down to London in October. Still got a season ticket though and would be travelling to away games if any London based blues fancy a tag along.
Stay where you are mate, I'm here already and I want to go back to Manchester, London sucks...!
manctheknife
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Was actually thinking of starting a thread on this....where the fk are all the Mancs going?....I think in my office I'm one of 3 out of about 60...we are being overrun with southerners...Me and my Manchester love affair have come to an end, i'm at the point in life where there is nothing left for me here so am making the move down to London in October. Still got a season ticket though and would be travelling to away games if any London based blues fancy a tag along.
I've been down on and off for about 5 years now. Always liked the place, suppose i've been lucky to have been travelling to North London most of the time. My son is down there so makes complete sense to me.Stay where you are mate, I'm here already and I want to go back to Manchester, London sucks...!
urban genie
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Was actually thinking of starting a thread on this....where the fk are all the Mancs going?....I think in my office I'm one of 3 out of about 60...we are being overrun with southerners...
People move about more nowadays I left Manchester 17 yrs ago for a couple of years, and then came back, and I am glad I did, broadened my horizons, at present I work with a woman from droyslden who does her big shop in ashton and thinks going to town is a big day out, for a holiday she only goes benidrom every year. She doesn't understand why people want to visit anywhere else.
Blue Til Death
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I've been down on and off for about 5 years now. Always liked the place, suppose i've been lucky to have been travelling to North London most of the time. My son is down there so makes complete sense to me.
I'm mainly in the City so I have to run the gauntlet of the commuters and the tourists, been here years and travel up for the games, the London away's a bonus but aside from that I would rather be back in Manchester
Ignorance is blissPeople move about more nowadays I left Manchester 17 yrs ago for a couple of years, and then came back, and I am glad I did, broadened my horizons, at present I work with a woman from droyslden who does her big shop in ashton and thinks going to town is a big day out, for a holiday she only goes benidrom every year. She doesn't understand why people want to visit anywhere else.
jay_mcfc
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Frosty.
OB1
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Pretty polarising subject among many blues, I expect.
Mine is a pretty complicated one.
A one day working visit on Thursday of this week, became two and I had to unexpectedly stay in central London last night. Went 'up West' for a few drinks and some food and I was struck (not for the first time) about what a ball of energy the city is. Full of incredible buildings, eccentric characters and as rich a history as any conurbation on the planet. It truly is one of the world's great cities. Whenever I go there, for the first day or so, I always feel a twinge of disappointment that I never 'made it' in London when I lived there twenty years ago. However, I've never been there for more than a couple of days and not been ready to go home, wherever that is at that particular time. It's expensive, full of itself, can be a nightmare to traverse and has an egregiously high proportion of utterly rude cunts at the best of times.
For me, it's a wonderful place to visit, but an unappealing place to live, but I understand its appeal to others, especially to the ambitious, whatever sacrifices living and working there may entail.
What's your relationship like?
I'll be another one in the love / hate category. I lived there for about 15 months in the mid 80's but living in a big city isn't my preference and I chose to return to Cheshire. I did enjoy being able to roll out of work in the West End and see the latest movies and the options for going to higs were great. I also only missed on England home game in my time there but was still going to 30 odd City games a season at that point. Probably also didn't help that I got involved with my wife to be shortly after moving to London; she lived in Macc.
We moved to Oxfordshire, rather unexpectedly, due to my job in 1990 so London has been pretty close at hand since then and we have had plenty of days and nights out there, the frequency dipped when our daughters were small but has picked up again. The city offers so many things culturally and entertainment wise but it is frequently a pig of a place to travel into and around but we usually say that we should go in more often.
It is really is one of the world's great cities.