My office is moving there in a few weeks, whats it like to work there, good restaurants, bars?
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Awful. Overprice, overcrowded, no style, not many useful shops either, not any good sandwich bar or restaurant. And if you want to spend your lunch hour in a restaurant prepare to go there at 10.30 otherwise you have to queue for 1 hour or go to "bene bene" where you have these annoying cashiers shouting "next please" at the speed of 120 times a minute. You can't enjoy the shops as you will be pushed by a flux of thousands of people in a hurry thus you are not allowed to stop or change direction. Go somewhere else. Go somewhere else.Originally posted by Jawz .My office is moving there in a few weeks, whats it like to work there, good restaurants, bars?I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light. -
Well they've been planning this move for almost a year, but I guess there's no harm in trying.Originally posted by FranckoAwful. Overprice, overcrowded, no style, not many useful shops either, not any good sandwich bar or restaurant. And if you want to spend your lunch hour in a restaurant prepare to go there at 10.30 otherwise you have to queue for 1 hour or go to "bene bene" where you have these annoying cashiers shouting "next please" at the speed of 120 times a minute. You can't enjoy the shops as you will be pushed by a flux of thousands of people in a hurry thus you are not allowed to stop or change direction. Go somewhere else. Go somewhere else.Comment
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AVOID IT LIKE THE CLAP! The centre of London will turn you from a normal, caring, thoughtful individual into a mentally unhinged fraggle. Trouble is, becuase everyone else who works there is the same, you'll think it's the norm. When you finally wake up and rotate back to the 'outside of London' area, people will instantly think to themselves "mm, must've worked at Canary Wharf"Originally posted by Jawz .My office is moving there in a few weeks, whats it like to work there, good restaurants, bars?Comment
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Originally posted by KyajaeAVOID IT LIKE THE CLAP! The centre of London will turn you from a normal, caring, thoughtful individual into a mentally unhinged fraggle. Trouble is, becuase everyone else who works there is the same, you'll think it's the norm. When you finally wake up and rotate back to the 'outside of London' area, people will instantly think to themselves "mm, must've worked at Canary Wharf"
I'd hardly call Canary Wharf the centre of London?!Comment
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No, the centre is at Charing Cross apparently.Originally posted by reformationI'd hardly call Canary Wharf the centre of London?!Comment
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Fair comment. Ok, try anything with a London postcode, that should give people a fair breadth of area.Originally posted by reformationI'd hardly call Canary Wharf the centre of London?!Comment
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Did you Google that or did you know it already?Originally posted by PRC1964No, the centre is at Charing Cross apparently.Comment
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Sadly, I knew it already. It was in a pub quiz a while back.Originally posted by Back In BusinessDid you Google that or did you know it already?Comment
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are you sure you're sure - I though it was the Marble Arch type jobbie at the end of oxford streetOriginally posted by PRC1964No, the centre is at Charing Cross apparently.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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