BobKowalski
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Worked in the City for 20 years and loved it. Still do.
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How would you describe your relationship with London?
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There's plenty of countryside in London, some of it right on the doorstep. Hampstead Heath. Richmond Park. Epping Forest. More public parks than anywhere else in the country. Walk down the River Lea towards the Olympic Park. You'll see cattle grazing on the marshes and horses in the fields. It's in inner London but you wouldn't know it, it's not all bricks and mortar.
I absolutely get that - I work in Kingston a lot of the time and that's beautiful. Comes with a huge price tag though which is a long way out of my budget.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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Its the epitome of everything that has gone batshit crazy about the UK. Its artificially inflated and expensive to the point that nobody from there can afford to buy a garden shed to live in, while crooks, foreign villains and oligarchs keep buying like its a monopoly board. But it puts property prices up, and this radiates outwards, so everyone fixates on them. Nobody seems to understand that hugely inflated house prices are not good news
BlueHammer85
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I joined a shipping company in Holborn when I was 17. I'm now 30 still at the same place. I would not want to work anywhere else! ... So many lovely bars and resturants near my way. Plus my gym is there. London is practically my life. It's nice at weekends to have a break away from London and I live in area with greenery which is nice. I've never fancied living in London.
Barcon
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Anytime I have ever been there I have ended up getting shit faced in Cafe Pacifico on tequila, then spent the next day lying on the hill at Greenwich, puking and sniveling.
And that's usually after watching us lose a match.
And that's usually after watching us lose a match.
sir baconface
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Worked full time as a commuter for 10 years, plus intermittently ever since.
Good work opportunities, relatively cosmopolitan workforce, high tech/innovative companies, great art galleries, museums, historic buildings, transport network, etc. On the downside, too much "me-me", ridiculous property prices.
Never fancied living there. I like a bit of countryside around me.
Good work opportunities, relatively cosmopolitan workforce, high tech/innovative companies, great art galleries, museums, historic buildings, transport network, etc. On the downside, too much "me-me", ridiculous property prices.
Never fancied living there. I like a bit of countryside around me.
Worked down there for 5 years, overall it was ok.
I loved the weekends, there was so much to do whether you had money or were skint. You have so much choice of where to go out, you weren't stuck with just going to town, you could go to Camden, Angel, Crouch End, Hoxton and many other places to go. I miss the sport as well down there, teams were more organised and sociable. If you were skint there was loads to do with a lot of the museums being free, the parks are amazingly clean and there's many other sites to see.
I do however genuinely believe the standard of living down there isn't as good as it is in Manchester/ the North. The tube is an amazing piece of engineering and so handy, it's easily taken for granted, being able to head in to central London within 12 minutes from a Zone 3/4 area is just incredible. However during the week I fucking hated it, just the glumness and how over crowded the tube network is. If the tube was down then everybody was fucked, there was no alternatives you are stuck. I felt like I didn't have much of a life during the week in London as getting home tended to be a ballache on top of working late. As we mostly drive in Manchester I feel I have so much more freedom and time off in the week. I felt quite limited in London, roads are just angry and congested and everything in generally over crowded whether it's the gym or supermarkets, I felt like I'd taken a hit on the standard of life.
It is an amazing city packed with culture and history with amazing people, I'd recommend the move to anybody, but for me 5 years was enough, fair play to anybody who sticks it out longer down there.
I loved the weekends, there was so much to do whether you had money or were skint. You have so much choice of where to go out, you weren't stuck with just going to town, you could go to Camden, Angel, Crouch End, Hoxton and many other places to go. I miss the sport as well down there, teams were more organised and sociable. If you were skint there was loads to do with a lot of the museums being free, the parks are amazingly clean and there's many other sites to see.
I do however genuinely believe the standard of living down there isn't as good as it is in Manchester/ the North. The tube is an amazing piece of engineering and so handy, it's easily taken for granted, being able to head in to central London within 12 minutes from a Zone 3/4 area is just incredible. However during the week I fucking hated it, just the glumness and how over crowded the tube network is. If the tube was down then everybody was fucked, there was no alternatives you are stuck. I felt like I didn't have much of a life during the week in London as getting home tended to be a ballache on top of working late. As we mostly drive in Manchester I feel I have so much more freedom and time off in the week. I felt quite limited in London, roads are just angry and congested and everything in generally over crowded whether it's the gym or supermarkets, I felt like I'd taken a hit on the standard of life.
It is an amazing city packed with culture and history with amazing people, I'd recommend the move to anybody, but for me 5 years was enough, fair play to anybody who sticks it out longer down there.
BrianW
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Don't like it one bit. As the first Duke of Marlborough said of Ireland: 'I wouldn't live there to be king of it.'
When I was younger I lived in the South East for a while and since then I've visited London many times for business and pleasure. I've attended meetings at locations as diverse as the US Embassy and HMS Belfast. Seen all I want to see, and don't care if I never go back.
It's a pity that so much of the cultural side of things (that the whole UK pays for) is kept down there though. Some of it, at least, should be somewhere more central. Like Wembley should have been, in fact.
When I was younger I lived in the South East for a while and since then I've visited London many times for business and pleasure. I've attended meetings at locations as diverse as the US Embassy and HMS Belfast. Seen all I want to see, and don't care if I never go back.
It's a pity that so much of the cultural side of things (that the whole UK pays for) is kept down there though. Some of it, at least, should be somewhere more central. Like Wembley should have been, in fact.
mancitymick
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300k ish for a one bedroom flat. Yep a great place to live!