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I've just started doing a backwards commute out of London, its the best thing ever.

Until I saw how much the season ticket is going to cost me.
 
TMP said:
I've just started doing a backwards commute out of London, its the best thing ever.

Until I saw how much the season ticket is going to cost me.
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Yeah, I'll be traveling the opposite direction of rush-hour from next month, but my travel costs are rising 50%.
 
Tell me one other place in the UK that I can go out on the Friday night, find a rave, and not come back till Sunday evening after partying at various places without stopping. I bet you can't.

There is so much to do in London. I'd honestly be bored living anywhere else.
 
Shayper said:
Tell me one other place in the UK that I can go out on the Friday night, find a rave, and not come back till Sunday evening after partying at various places without stopping. I bet you can't.

There is so much to do in London. I'd honestly be bored living anywhere else.
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:eek:Do you not sleep?
 
Shayper said:
Tell me one other place in the UK that I can go out on the Friday night, find a rave, and not come back till Sunday evening after partying at various places without stopping. I bet you can't.

There is so much to do in London. I'd honestly be bored living anywhere else.
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Yeah and at £5 a pint you'd need to re-mortgage your house to do it. :D

Personally I couldn't live or work there though.
 
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I like London but couldnt live there. Too expensive and too congested for my liking. I would work there though. I live in Reading and getting the train into Paddington is only 25 minutes. Shame the monthly ticket is ~£400.
 
Sudden said:
:eek:Do you not sleep?
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My birthday month was pretty nutty :D

estebanrey said:
Yeah and at £5 a pint you'd need to re-mortgage your house to do it. :D

I live in Oxford so I get the best of both worlds. I live in a fairly leafy, clean and green place but can get to London for 'partying' in around an hour. And as the buses run 24/7 I can either come home then or stay at my mates who does live there.

Personally I couldn't live or work there though.
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I don't go to places where it's 5 quid a pint except for special nights, like Fabric.

Ive just read the last page. Cheets, you are an arse. If there wasn't immigrants I wouldn't have a great portion of my friends. I hate people like you, and I would much rather you were kicked out of the country than them.
 
As 'tourists' me and the gf love London and try to go at least once a year.

I do like the fact I can come back to my house in a small town in Yorkshire but I just love:

The Shopping
Diversity of places to eat & drink
The Hustle & Bustle
The Atmosphere
Diversity of cultures (I find it amazing the amount of different cultures in one place)

Could be different living there but I really do think London is one of my favouritist (:P) place so far!
 
I'd had to live in central London, but where I am is the perfect balance. I grew up in the New Forest so appreciate the quiet, but then I like the fact that I have so much stuff to do right on my doorstep.
 
I feel safe in London. Anywhere else with a non-existent minority ethnic population, I feel like I'm subjected to racist abuse or discrimination.

I rather live abroad than live anywhere outside London.

I work in Central London so I mix with all sorts of people on a daily basis. It's one of the main reasons I love my job. And the hot European women in the summer of course.

I have 3 different bus routes I can take to work 5 minutes walk from my house, and they come every 5 minutes. Then I have 2 different Underground routes I can take to work.
 
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Where I live in North London, there are areas which are typical of the comments of "Its not British anymore".

If you take a walk down Seven Sisters Road you will see signs in Turkish, nothing but mini-markets and kebab shops, sisha cafes full of only men watching foreign football matches and everybody making their way to the Finsbury park Mosque at the relevant times of the day in their traditional garb. So I can fully see why people come out with things like "Its like being in another country".

While I'm not a huge fan of the fact that when you walk about, everyone isn't speaking English, I do envy them for their sense of community. They all know each other, they all stop and chat, they go for a coffee after the mosque etc. Obviously their religion helps bring them together, but ultimately its because they all work closely together as small business owners and shop keepers... they are in a sense a nation of small shopkeepers... which I think you will find is what the 'British' once were before chains came along, supermarkets and the assumption that low end jobs were only for immigrants, so better to just live of the state.

In contrast, I barely know my neighbours and I don't talk to anyone in the area other than my friends.

The majority of my fellow white folk in the area are complete scum who have never worked a day in their life.
 
Shayper said:
Tell me one other place in the UK that I can go out on the Friday night, find a rave, and not come back till Sunday evening after partying at various places without stopping. I bet you can't.

There is so much to do in London. I'd honestly be bored living anywhere else.
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Brighton........... Next! :D
 
I visit London frequently, the traffic is a joke (not helped by most being unable to drive in a manner normal outside theM25!)
I find it dirty, overcrowded and overpriced.

That people pay a premium to live there never ceases to amaze me.
 
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