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

[DimPrawn]

An ugly, cold and charmless wasteland built on the money of foreign criminals and casino banker bonuses.

[sasguru]

As a Londoner born and bred I have to say the place is a dump. It has it's plus points but by and large it's a craphole. It always has been. That's part of the charm in some ways.

Generalising about London is a mug's game.
Huge swathes of it are a dump (especially East and North), there are many parts that are as nice or better than anywhere in the world and there are parts that are a mixture within one mile of each other.
That's its charm, it's the least homogenous city in the world, you can find what you want and make of it what you will.
But you need money to live well.

[sasguru]

An ugly, cold and charmless wasteland .

For the sort of money you can afford, you'd have to buy in a place like that.
If you were rich you could afford somwehere nice.

[OwlHoot]

*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.

Hehe - So tempted to +ve rep Sas for that crack

But I resisted

[Ignis Fatuus]

Generalising about London is a mug's game.
Huge swathes of it are a dump (especially East and North), there are many parts that are as nice or better than anywhere in the world and there are parts that are a mixture within one mile of each other.
That's its charm, it's the least homogenous city in the world, you can find what you want and make of it what you will.

All more true of NYC.

Parts that are a mixture within one mile of each other? How about half a block?

[OwlHoot]

All more true of NYC.

Parts that are a mixture within one mile of each other? How about half a block?

It's always been true of London. The some most villainous dangerous areas like Seven Dials were literally within a stone's throw of some of the most fashionable.

[doodab]

Generalising about London is a mug's game.
Huge swathes of it are a dump (especially East and North), there are many parts that are as nice or better than anywhere in the world and there are parts that are a mixture within one mile of each other.
That's its charm, it's the least homogenous city in the world, you can find what you want and make of it what you will.
But you need money to live well.

There are a few parts that are nice, but as you say there is invariably a tulipty bit a mile away and it costs a fortune to live there.

[EternalOptimist]

SasGuru - A first rate pea, in a second rate cranium

[Bunk]

There are a few parts that are nice, but as you say there is invariably a tulipty bit a mile away and it costs a fortune to live there.

Don't worry about that, work is already underway to move the undesirables out of our city and into the sticks. Once we've done that we can bulldoze those areas and make everywhere nice and too expensive for poor people and Northerners.

[doodab]

It's always been true of London. The some most villainous dangerous areas like Seven Dials were literally within a stone's throw of some of the most fashionable.

That's cos London, and the empire, was built on villany.