For those who live in big cities..do you get used to the pollution smell?

[smelly_legend]

I can't say I have every smelled pollution down in London as I'm always picking my bum then picking my nose.

 

[Devrij]

London is a big place, it depends where you live/work. Living right out in Surrey at the edge of the M25 it is barely London but easily commutable into London Bridge then through The City into Shoreditch. Great area to live and bring up children and a very nice area of London to work in and around.

I get to skip through Croydon and never go there, I have to travel to the docklands regularly for the data centres and skip through horrible places like Shadwell before ending up at the Docklands which is a very nice area and would be my location of choice to live if I wasn't bringing up a family.

Going into London people think "gotta use tube coz every uses tube it is the done thing". Reality is that it is avoided at all costs and that is where you get the crap up your nose, the air quality in London is stunning when taking into account all the building work going on and the traffic. Places are really not that far to walk (I know people that have used the tube to get from Bank to Moorgate and genuinely didn't know the way to walk), there is something about a big ass vibrant city with huge buildings that make it epic - but epic to work in and not live in (IMO).

*Note: i was brought up in Brimscombe near Stroud over in Gloucestershire.

If you lived in Surrey, and someone asked you where you lived, would you say London?Surrey is Surrey. If you're outside the M25 I think of it as "not London". I agree Surrey is a nice place (depending on where in Surrey you are, anyway), and I would consider living there. I just vehemently dislike the vast majority of London.

 

[JBod]

If you lived in Surrey, and someone asked you where you lived, would you say London?Surrey is Surrey. If you're outside the M25 I think of it as "not London". I agree Surrey is a nice place (depending on where in Surrey you are, anyway), and I would consider living there. I just vehemently dislike the vast majority of London.

Depends who I am talking too, it really is Greater London.

 

[Freakbro]

You townies are all welcome to your heart disease and lung cancer!

Air pollution, chiefly from traffic exhaust fumes in cities, is having a serious and sometimes fatal effect on health, according to two studies that link it to lung cancer and heart failure.

 

[inogen]

London stinks. All the other cities I've lived in I got used to, or don't smell anywhere near as bad. But London really smells bad.

 

[JBod]

London stinks. All the other cities I've lived in I got used to, or don't smell anywhere near as bad. But London really smells bad.

That'd be all the immigrants and muslims </dripping sarcasm>

 

[MooMoo444]

Suppose it depends where you grow up. If you grow up in a small town/village in the countryside then yes, the smell will hit you like a truck.

A bit of carbon monoxide does the body good anyway....

 

[Rroff]

Suppose it depends where you grow up. If you grow up in a small town/village in the countryside then yes, the smell will hit you like a truck.

A bit of carbon monoxide does the body good anyway....

I grew up in rural Somerset - going straight from any length of time down there straight into the City it does hit you at first but pretty quickly stop noticing it, if like I more normally do tho go upto my flat out in Zone 4 and spend a few days there before going into the City then I barely notice it.

 

[muon]

Unless you're standing right next to traffic, what smell?

 

[willhub]

Camden Town smelt like the tube, smelt of smoke and dust.

 

[Yas786]

It's like city slickers asking country bumpkins if they get used to the smell of all the animal manure around. Or southerners asking northerners if they get used to the smell of the poverty

Of course you do, you acclimatise to your situation.

Awesome post 5*'s

 

[Spook187]

Great up here, fresh air in the cumbrian hills

 

[thedoc46]

That'd be all the immigrants and muslims </dripping sarcasm>

This really. Not being sarcastic either. If you go down an ethnically diverse neighbourhood, you get a whoof of their cooking. Go to Soho and all you smell peking duck.. Go down a lot of other places and the whoof of curry hits you in the face.

Is what is is. Not being racist.

 

[Gilly]

This really. Not being sarcastic either. If you go down an ethnically diverse neighbourhood, you get a whoof of their cooking. Go to Soho and all you smell peking duck.. Go down a lot of other places and the whoof of curry hits you in the face.

Is what is is. Not being racist.

That's not the London stink though, and nor does it cause disgusting deposits from the nose.

Your post is valid though; cooking does smell of cooking.

 

[bainbridge]

Well with fortnightly bin emptying and the cost of waste disposal lots of people round my way are resorting to garden fires in this nice weather, so the smell of my city is whatever is being burnt!

Smells like burning plastic at the moment.

 

[bloodiedathame]

cooking does smell of cooking.

Pahaha! :'D <- crying with laughter emoticon

 

[Lunatic Dreyfus]

Arriving in Central London, the unique smell of the Big City is one of the first things I notice. Traffic fumes and urine. It seems much worse in the early morning too.

 

[HangTime]

You do get used to it.

I now live in a moderately rural small suburban town (lots of trees around) and when I go to big cities, not just London but also Bristol, Southampton etc, I notice the difference in air quality much more than I used to. Almost like a burning flemmy feeling in my throat not to mention what comes out of my nose.