Whitey Grandad Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 Life doesn't revolve around pubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW5 SAINT Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 The terrors of the high street and urban planning mean that whenever I leave the big smoke, I can't tell whether I'm in Liverpool, Southampton, Newcastle, S****horpe, Birmingham or Hull. A few traces of nineteenth century civic pride and the odd postmodern vanity project here and there are all I have to go on. Utterly depressing - no English city should be anywhere near that top 10. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 I lived in London for 5 years and agree with your teeth sucking Southampton friends. London is a fantastic place to visit but I found most of it is a unfriendly, sh!te hole of a place. I often said in London you could be lying in a pool of you own blood dying and people will just step over to you on their way to work. It may have just been where I lived (North London) but on a night out there were always gangs of ethnics who hate each other, and the locals who hated everyone. There is so much to do which is why it is great to visit but you are never too far away from a street where you could get stabbed for your trainers. Which part of London did you live in - Seven Sisters? North London is arguably the most balanced part of London - within minutes you can be on the Holloway Road/Archway and then in Highgate, two completely different but complementary worlds. By contrast, West London is ponce country, South London is too spread out and East London is too ghettoised where each sticks to his/her own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 This Alas you won't agree with my views of West London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 8 January, 2014 Author Share Posted 8 January, 2014 London is 40 different towns, many of them ****e and expensive where the heart and soul has been ripped out, the exclusive expensive places sheltered away from the rif raff though are great, where could you buy desirable for the average family? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 Which part of London did you live in - Seven Sisters? North London is arguably the most balanced part of London - within minutes you can be on the Holloway Road/Archway and then in Highgate, two completely different but complementary worlds. By contrast, West London is ponce country, South London is too spread out and East London is too ghettoised where each sticks to his/her own. I lived around Southgate, Palmers Green and Wood Green. To be fair 3 of those was as a student and the other two at the start of my career not earning alot so I wasn't best placed to live life to the full in London. Me and 4 of my mates moved back to Southampton and none of us miss London one bit. It's a fun and exciting place to live but there is no dressing it up as a friendly place. The contrast in cultures and disparity in wealth means people put barriers up, the locals we got to know said themselves that you need to put up a "front" just to get by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 I lived around Southgate, Palmers Green and Wood Green. To be fair 3 of those was as a student and the other two at the start of my career not earning alot so I wasn't best placed to live life to the full in London. Me and 4 of my mates moved back to Southampton and none of us miss London one bit. It's a fun and exciting place to live but there is no dressing it up as a friendly place. The contrast in cultures and disparity in wealth means people put barriers up, the locals we got to know said themselves that you need to put up a "front" just to get by. London is no different to any other big city in that regard though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 F*** me you lot even repeat discussing things such as what London is like. Unless it is different people but don't you think you can exhaust subjects. Or have you Londoners run out of things to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 Tbf hearing about Liverpool is just as boring if not more so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halo Stickman Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 Life doesn't revolve around pubs. For one horrible moment I thought that Mrs Stickman had found her way onto SWF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 Tbf hearing about Liverpool is just as boring if not more so. It's been done to death and that's coming from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 I lived around Southgate, Palmers Green and Wood Green. To be fair 3 of those was as a student and the other two at the start of my career not earning alot so I wasn't best placed to live life to the full in London. Me and 4 of my mates moved back to Southampton and none of us miss London one bit. It's a fun and exciting place to live but there is no dressing it up as a friendly place. The contrast in cultures and disparity in wealth means people put barriers up, the locals we got to know said themselves that you need to put up a "front" just to get by. I was born near there in the North Middlesex Hospital. All my family were from Edmonton, Enfield, Ponders End. My wife is from Barnett. When I finished university I was determined not to live in London, thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 Life doesn't revolve around pubs. I can't think of any social event that doesn't involve visiting a boozer either before or after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 I can't think of any social event that doesn't involve visiting a boozer either before or after. Going to a mosque, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 8 January, 2014 Share Posted 8 January, 2014 I can't think of any social event that doesn't involve visiting a boozer either before or after. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-12-14/news/0280130271_1_alcoholics-anonymous-group-of-alcoholics-christmas-party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 9 January, 2014 Share Posted 9 January, 2014 http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-12-14/news/0280130271_1_alcoholics-anonymous-group-of-alcoholics-christmas-party Mount Dora Alcoholics Anonymous will have a Christmas party at 6 p.m....... Members should take a covered dish and a $2 gift for Santa to pass out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 9 January, 2014 Share Posted 9 January, 2014 I can't think of any social event that doesn't involve visiting a boozer either before or after. Mmm... Do I detect the first signs of dependency here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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