London = Awesome / Rest of UK = Rubbish... Discuss...

[EggsBenedict]

London is fecking excellent if you're single and reasonably cash rich. There are so many things to do, brilliant pubs, bars, restaurants, sites, theatre, movies, etc. Unless you're talking about rolling hills and fresh air, then it's got lots going for it.

Yes, for a petrolhead, it's a bit limiting, as it's hard to find somewhere to park or store a car or more than one car.

I work in London still, but to raise a family I moved out to Kent, and once I wasn't single anymore, the social side of London didn't appeal so much. That said, it has a buzz about it, and offers much that other cities in the UK don't.

I find people who can't find anything at all to like about London incomprehensible.

OP: The Standard is a London paper. It pretty well advocates London being a city state independent of the rest of the UK, so it's unsurprising it goes on about that metric.

Having said that, I don't think "rest of UK = Rubbish" is at all fair. Most parts of the UK have something going for them (maybe not Wolverhampton - dunno), and I must admit that if what I do for a living didn't revolve around being in London, I'd probably move further from it.

[juice]

Prawnboy said:

indeed

Yeppo...makes no sense to have these parts of the business in a high-cost jurisdiction such as Bermuda..so we've moved

IT
Accounting
Back-office

to Bristol. Savings are quite extraordinary, especially as you get

Business Rates relief for 5 years
Grants for fibre installs
Funding for job creation (20K per role up to a max of 4 new roles).

They throw money at you to move into their EZ as they are all competing with each other

[myvision]

London is far too overcrowded with certain areas of it verging on being a ghetto. IMHO
I look forward to every Friday and driving the hell out of here back oop North. Not so keen on Mondays coming back though.

[glazbagun]

I love it as a tourist. As a worker who's lived here for three years now I think the place is a slurry pit with diamonds floating in it.

[Prawnboy]

juice said:

Yeppo...makes no sense to have these parts of the business in a high-cost jurisdiction such as Bermuda..so we've moved

IT
Accounting
Back-office

to Bristol. Savings are quite extraordinary, especially as you get

Business Rates relief for 5 years
Grants for fibre installs
Funding for job creation (20K per role up to a max of 4 new roles).

They throw money at you to move into their EZ as they are all competing with each other

and the money the buiness makes stays in low tax bermuda?

[juice]

Well - its a Bermudian company..so where else would it stay ?

[standards]

Worked & lived there for 7 years. At least workwise it was busy and 'cos it's in the spotlight the resources were generally available.

Not so good IMHO if you want a family life. Towards the end of my time there several colleagues and I referred to it as Mugsville-on-Thames. Only semi-jokingly.

Love going back for a day or two and great to know what I'm going home to, i.e. not there.

If you've got a good job, friends & money and you're happy with the place. And I was. It's not for me now though.

[rover 623gsi]

London is a great place to visit - not so great place to live (unless you are stinking rich). I grew up there but moved away in 2000 and have no desire to move back.

[Silver993tt]

Scuffers said:

London = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...

Correction:


UK = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...


which is exactly what I did more than 10 years ago. On the odd occasion when I visit friends in teh UK (including London) I'm amazed at how dirty, uncomfortable and unattractive the whole place has become, definitely the toilet of Europe.

[GetCarter]

Silver993tt said:

Correction:


UK = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...


which is exactly what I did more than 10 years ago. On the odd occasion when I visit friends in teh UK (including London) I'm amazed at how dirty, uncomfortable and unattractive the whole place has become, definitely the toilet of Europe.

This morning in the UK.



Not all the UK is a toilet.

London is though. (Lived there for 30 years and unfortunately have to visit from time to time).

[vescaegg]

GetCarter said:

Silver993tt said:

Correction:


UK = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...


which is exactly what I did more than 10 years ago. On the odd occasion when I visit friends in teh UK (including London) I'm amazed at how dirty, uncomfortable and unattractive the whole place has become, definitely the toilet of Europe.

This morning in the UK.



Not all the UK is a toilet.

London is though. (Lived there for 30 years and unfortunately have to visit from time to time).

I wouldn't call this a toilet either. Love London.

[MarshPhantom]

Scuffers said:

London = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...

If you had friends visiting the UK from abroad would you tell them not to bother with London?

[Silver993tt]

vescaegg said:

GetCarter said:

Silver993tt said:

Correction:


UK = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...


which is exactly what I did more than 10 years ago. On the odd occasion when I visit friends in teh UK (including London) I'm amazed at how dirty, uncomfortable and unattractive the whole place has become, definitely the toilet of Europe.

This morning in the UK.



Not all the UK is a toilet.

London is though. (Lived there for 30 years and unfortunately have to visit from time to time).

I wouldn't call this a toilet either. Love London.

That's the problem, the whole place needs some fancy photos which very, very rarely reflect the true place. I saw the light years ago, the only mistake I made was not seeing it years before that.

[VinceFox]

Every time i hear anyone say "London" on telly in a posh manner, i always expect to hear it followed by "...home of Dangermouse".

[Scuffers]

MarshPhantom said:

Scuffers said:

London = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...

If you had friends visiting the UK from abroad would you tell them not to bother with London?

Yes, i actively do tell them to give it the swerve...

[anonymous-user]

Silver993tt said:

That's the problem, the whole place needs some fancy photos which very, very rarely reflect the true place. I saw the light years ago, the only mistake I made was not seeing it years before that.

Perhaps the UK didn't work out for you, but there's plenty of other people living there quite happily. The UK is quite diverse, and to call the whole place a toilet is a bit ignorant.

[Mastodon2]

vescaegg said:

I wouldn't call this a toilet either. Love London.

It's easy to be selective with what you show of London though.



See?

London is a great place to go as a tourist, I wouldn't want to live there. Even living outside of London and commuting in looks like a chore. For all of the rich enclaves, the financial district, the cultural hotspots etc, there is a rotting hulk of urban sprawl surrounding it.

[BoRED S2upid]

Yes London is ace everyone quickly move there while I stay in this st hole is really don't know why I put up with it

[anonymous-user]

Scuffers said:

MarshPhantom said:

Scuffers said:

London = toilet IMHO

get in, do your business and get out as fast as possible...

If you had friends visiting the UK from abroad would you tell them not to bother with London?

Yes, i actively do tell them to give it the swerve...

I certainly wouldn't. It seems odd to visit the UK and not see London, it has an amazing amount of iconic sights and famous historic buildings.

It would be like telling someone travelling around Italy to avoid Rome or Venice or Florence. I'm sure you can find bad things to say about those places but to avoid them would be missing out.

[Hilts]

I used to work in London. Fly in Monday morning fly out Friday.

Why am I telling you this?

I have no idea.