That There London

[Plaything of the gods]

Great Article by Stephanie Flanders about something I long suspected but saw with my very own eyes a few weeks ago, London is not really like anywhere else in this country, it was like the recession had never really happened, and it was not just private investment there is a lot of public investment in transport etc

So how to we bridge the North South divide?

Is it down to better transport and infrastructure, or use various incentives to make it so cheap for buisiness to locate up here that it would be a "no brainer"

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Easy. Build a superfast railroad and watch the wealth flow to London.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

As opposed to where you're from being populated by racists? London's populated by every kind of person so it's easy to find your own individual niche.

Where do you draw that conclusion?

Because I said that London is full of foreigners it's populated by racists in Manchester.

Fuckin' strange.

Roughly only a third of people in London were born overseas and a number of them were brought here as children which means they grew up in London. To describe it as "mostly populated by foreigners" is profoundly ignorant and, literally read, is racist.

I was being deliberately rhetorical with my original answer. I don't know where you're from but I'm guessing it's not Moss Side, Longsight or Cheetham Hill.

-- Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:06 pm --

How on earth did you survive here for 25 years with that kind of attitude? I find people just tend to keep themselves to themselves. What this city is full of is opportunity for those that work for it. Everything is here.

Including almost limitless supplies of Bella Pasta outlets.

I've never eaten in one.

Think about it. You can eat food from anywhere, buy anything you need, see anything you want and witness numerous cultural activities in London. Something for everyone.

Manchester bored the living daylights out of me. I'd seen it all and done it all by 25.

You really must visit Sheffield sometime.

 

[johnny on the spot]

I've just got back from a top weekend partying with friends in London. Been about half a dozen times in the last couple of years and it's always done my head in. Really enjoyed it this time though.

 

[The Ox]

Fuck London, my mate said that in The Times on Sunday just gone that Altrincham was rated the best place to live in the UK.

 

[jimharri]

The main problem with this country is that it is way, way, too London-centric.

Politicians act as though the UK is London - and at a stretch, the South East. If you want a very recent example, see the proposal to subsidise people buying 600k houses, which anywhere outside London/SE is a luxury property.

Isn't every country the same, centre-ing everything around the capital? Over here, if you don't live in Dublin (or, at a push, the East Coast), the politicians/big business don't give a flying fuck about you.

 

[Rascal]

Easy. Build a superfast railroad and watch the wealth flow to London.

Not daft them cockneees

They can live closer to the team they support and still work in London

 

[Lavinda Past]

24 years in that London...

I'd had enough after the first couple of weeks, but a job's a job and you sort of get used to it after a bit.

IMO...

The place is crap. The 'nightlife' is vastly overrated. The beer has always been too expensive. Travel is OK North - South, but a waste of time West - East. Rush hour trains (i.e. any time between 06:30 and 19:00, seven days a week) are overpriced, dirty and full. People give money to tramps who have dogs and avoid eye contact with other human beings. You make friends at work and find that you all live at least 40 miles away from each other.

Apart from meeting Mrs Lavinda, and the hospitals delivering the kids safe and well, that London did nowt for me...

Oh.. apart from doubling my wages and tripling the value of our house in five years...

I feel like a traitor just for having lived in that London... I'm glad we escaped with our fortune intact...


(Lavinda sits back, lights a big cigar, and surveys his Norfolk estate...)

 

[peoffrey]

Roughly only a third of people in London were born overseas and a number of them were brought here as children which means they grew up in London. To describe it as "mostly populated by foreigners" is profoundly ignorant and, literally read, is racist.

Only a third?

The word you were looking to label me or anyone with an opinion with is Xenophobic not racist.

Do you bark that word in your sleep?

Census results from 2011 indicate 1 in 3. There's also lots of people who live in London for a period of time (Aussies, Kiwis, Saffas etc) before leaving.

It is racist. I try not to understand the mind of such ignorance but the statement made indicated white British people belong there whilst others do not.

And how would I know what I bark in my sleep? I'm asleep.<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:52 am --<br /><br />

You really must visit Sheffield sometime.

I have done. One of my mate's from school moved there when he met a Sheffield girl and I had nights out. I generally like Yorkshire as I find it less arrogant than Manchester. The pace of life is too slow or traditional and the hills are tiring. Nice enough place though.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Fuck London, my mate said that in The Times on Sunday just gone that Altrincham was rated the best place to live in the UK.

Clearly The Times have never visited the Broomwood or Sinderland estates when it kicks off.
Such as any weekend.