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...And after about 10 days, slowly but surely I started to miss London.
The energy of the place, the history, the way you can overhear a dozen diffent languages being talked at the same time on a single bus. Walking not driving from A-B. Running by the Thames. Yep, the property prices are insane - and so are many of the people for that matter. But me, I can't imagine living anywhere else.
I think they should cut round the edge of London, air lift it and drop it off somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
Nobody in London would notice and it would give the rest of the Country that great feeling you get when you've just had a huge dump.
I could imagine living there for a limited time when young but I wouldn't like to bring kids up there. I like the slow pace of life and lack of change up here:)
I'm not saying I'd live here forever mind, but I am used to big cities...
I like the north, pretty much like you guys like London - but I couldn't live there.
I love living in London. I was brought up on a farm in the countryside, so its not that i am a complete towny and I probably dont want to live there all my life. I lived in Sydney for a year and could have applied for residency and stayed there, but I missed London and I missed England.
London has so much to do, is always vibrant, theres always loads of people around to do stuff with, plenty of opportunity. Yes its expensive, congested and dirty - I still like living there though.
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because it has possibly the best running scene in the world, many races, clubs, training facilities and easy accessible. Must be good, even Craig Mottram, Benita Johnson and a bunch of Kenyans train in London
The best days are when I ride my motorbike in to work, taking in views of Harrods, the Natural History museum, Buckingham Palace, Admiralty Arch, Trafalgar Square and St Paul's.
I wouldn't live here though. Far too crowded!
I also believe that good news doesn't make interesting news which is why you hear more negative things than good things. eg. if there were no problems on the trains would it make the news - no.
There is also the point that a lot of people don't like moving away from what they know. So those of us in and around London don't want to move away but lots of people are attracted to London and want to move here.
However, i do thinnk back with nostalgia to cycling through hyde park early in the morning on the way to work and seeing the soliers and horses from the barracks coming through the mist, sometimes with full kit - ie cannons and stuff - it was quite weird
Anyway it was one of thos old duffers who lived hundreds of years ago but its as true now as it was then!
Fantastic place, nothing was ever more than 2 minutes away. And walking distance from covent garden and soho after a night out. Every night you could go somewhere new. The place really was open 24 hours a day.
But there's certainly no peice or quiet in the place through, your always constantly sharing your space with someone else. Even in the p'd't i could hear everything going on in the other flats.
These days, it's a nice place to visit, but i wouldent want to live there anymore.