Reply to: London - A first rate city with a second rate country attached

[shaunbhoy]

But Dudley's halfway between Wolverhampton and Birmingham; how on earth could they be miserable in Dudley?

That god-awful whining nasal accent for one thing. There must be queues of suicidal folk at every high structure simply on the basis of exposure to that alone!!

[Mich the Tester]

London should certainly break away as you're all miserable chuntes:

From The Guardian:

Britain's unhappiest places to live

1. East London

2. Croydon

3. East central London

4. Ilford

5. South-east London

6. Enfield

7. North-west London

8. West London

9. Dudley

10. North London

But Dudley's halfway between Wolverhampton and Birmingham; how on earth could they be miserable in Dudley?

[ZARDOZ]

London should certainly break away as you're all miserable chuntes:

From The Guardian:

Britain's unhappiest places to live

1. East London

2. Croydon

3. East central London

4. Ilford

5. South-east London

6. Enfield

7. North-west London

8. West London

9. Dudley

10. North London

[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

[OwlHoot]

Mug.

punter

oops, sorry, wrong thread

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[d000hg]

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

Mug.

[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?

[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

[shaunbhoy]

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

ftfy

[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.

[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.