London - A first rate city with a second rate country attached

[shaunbhoy]

Generalising about everything outside of London is a mug's game.

ftfy

[TheBigD]

It could never work for 2 reasons.

London wouldn't be able to service the debts generated by the bankers whilst at the same time

Paying back the rest of the country for the Olympics we paid for

[SupremeSpod]

It could never work for 2 reasons.

London wouldn't be able to service the debts generated by the bankers whilst at the same time

Paying back the rest of the country for the Olympics we paid for

What?

[d000hg]

Generalising about London is a mug's game.
Huge swathes of it are a dump

Mug.

[Bluenose]

I am going to file this one under poor reporting and move on.

Its the sort of puffy gumpf the Evening Standard would print.

Says more about the type of foreigners living in London more than London itself.

We Londoners know the type, they live within the confines of Zone 2 and will only venture outside of this Zone to travel to an airport or a rich ghetto where the houses are either empty or the street looks like a construction site.

[lilelvis2000]

I lived in Canada a long while. I often thought Toronto was in another country. We joked how it was the 51st state. then I think of where I lived in Manitoba. Where 75% of the population and the output came from one city!

London is on another planet however. I did think of running a shop down there but the landlord wanted £1000 a week. Up here I can easily get the same for £150 a week.

My 3 bedroom house is worth about £120K tops. I imagine in some leafy London suburb it would be £500K, and I'd still have a 1hr commute to get to work.

London? cut it out of the UK.

[sasguru]

My 3 bedroom house is worth about £120K tops. I imagine in some leafy London suburb it would be £500K, and I'd still have a 1hr commute to get to work.

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Only if you're one of those old-fashioned plebs that can't work from home. How old-skool is that?

[d000hg]

Only if you're one of those old-fashioned plebs that can't work from home. How old-skool is that?

The pillars of London's economic success thrive on old-fashioned ways of working.

[OwlHoot]

Mug.

punter

oops, sorry, wrong thread

[No2politics]

London - A first rate city with a second rate country attached

Exactly. Typical numpty Northerners. It's always everyone else's fault rather than their own.
Entitlement mentality*, you see.

*e.g. have you ever heard a Liverpudlian whining? It just goes on and on about " me <phglem sound>rights" and goes higher and higher until only dogs can hear it.

I just burst out laughing on a packed train