Reply to: Living right in Central London

[Francko]

There's a pub in London where young women go who are desperate to pick up a guy and take him home for a shag, and we're not talking tobacco (or payment).

Someone mentioned it here a couple of years ago, but couldn't recall the name or location, and needless to say no one else knew either.

Well wasn't it like that any central Walkabout about 15-20 years ago? Unless things have changed more recently...

[Board Game Geek]

Stringfellows probably.

[OwlHoot]

.. PS Why do you spend your time roaming the dreary pubs?

There's a pub in London where young women go who are desperate to pick up a guy and take him home for a shag, and we're not talking tobacco (or payment).

Someone mentioned it here a couple of years ago, but couldn't recall the name or location, and needless to say no one else knew either.

[BrilloPad]

Looks ex-council.

I have a friend who lives in same block. You are right.

[Bagpuss]

Northerners tend to be lost and bewildered when they come to London. Often they are to be found standing in dreary pubs mumbling incoherently.

It's called having a conversation, you should try it, you could make some friends instead of sitting in front of your PC stereotyping people.

PS Why do you spend your time roaming the dreary pubs?

[scooterscot]

Nah that's the extra we get for being fast and not dawdling in tube stations like you lot.

Aye fast at spending the money in the wrong places - great!

[sasguru]

The London weighting on salaries should really be scrapped.

Nah that's the extra we get for being fast and not dawdling in tube stations like you lot.

[scooterscot]

Holy Carp - for that I'd expect the castle thrown in free

Correction it's £2338

You don't know you're born...


The London weighting on salaries should really be scrapped.

[OwlHoot]

You don't know you're born, here in Edinburgh may council tax bill is £2200.

Holy Carp - for that I'd expect the castle thrown in free

[sasguru]

You don't know you're born, here in Edinburgh may council tax bill is £2200.

Read it and weep:
http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/Co...on.htm#howmuch

[scooterscot]

when living in london some broughs charge over £1500 for the year)

You don't know you're born, here in Edinburgh may council tax bill is £2200.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I lived in W1 for a while, bedroom window on to the street, 4am bin collection every day followed by 5am deliveries

I lived in W1 for years and loved it.

I've just found the flat I used to own offered to let for 500pw. I'm tempted to phone up the agent to see if it's been let out because it won't sell. If so, maybe I should buy it back? I miss that flat so much. It broke my heart when I sold it, but it had to go.

Maybe not. Being on the run and all that. They might find me.

[OwlHoot]

Any experience of people living right in the center of London? And I mean Covent Garden or Westminster, no, I don't mean Richmond or Kew Gardens sorry.... :-)

What is it like if you have children to be there?
Sounds like afterall it is not that incredibly expensive as people might think.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...inBedrooms%3D2

I lived just off Leicester Square some years ago, and it was OK apart from the lack of a large supermarket nearby.

Also the slamming of taxi doors, sirens, screeching of brakes, and Hooray Henries or Jack the Lads (hard to tell the difference from a distance) kicking up a row half the night could be annoying.

Also, the West End is literally heaving with people on friday and saturday night, which isn't to everyone's taste (certainly not mine).

[Francko]

I lived in Amsterdam for a while, bedroom window on to the street

[Rookie]

I lived in W1 for a while, bedroom window on to the street, 4am bin collection every day followed by 5am deliveries

Was it the one with the red light?