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At the moment, I feel as if this city is sucking the soul out of me...
I can't think of anything worse than living my life much longer, in a city like this (ok, figure of speech... Obviously, war zones are worse)... Next year I plan on being out!
I grew up very much in the countryside, on the side of a mountain. I find the fact that cars are constantly running, people are loud and the sensory overload exhausting, sometimes... It's so dirty and ick... People everywhere... No peace and quiet.
I don't feel especially safe in my area, we have people try to kick our door in sometimes, or have men comment on us and sometimes follow us in the street.
I am used to very friendly, personal people... But London is too big for that. If I wanna see my friends, I sometimes have to travel up to an hour, even if they technically only live 4 miles away!
They say when you're tired of London, you're tired of life or something... But right now, I feel I'm existing, not living.
How about you?
London... Love it, or hate it? And why?
I can't think of anything worse than living my life much longer, in a city like this (ok, figure of speech... Obviously, war zones are worse)... Next year I plan on being out!
I grew up very much in the countryside, on the side of a mountain. I find the fact that cars are constantly running, people are loud and the sensory overload exhausting, sometimes... It's so dirty and ick... People everywhere... No peace and quiet.
I don't feel especially safe in my area, we have people try to kick our door in sometimes, or have men comment on us and sometimes follow us in the street.
I am used to very friendly, personal people... But London is too big for that. If I wanna see my friends, I sometimes have to travel up to an hour, even if they technically only live 4 miles away!
They say when you're tired of London, you're tired of life or something... But right now, I feel I'm existing, not living.
How about you?
London... Love it, or hate it? And why?
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Depends on the northerner, truth be told. I think Leeds is a very rude city, although admittedly the rudest people there are the fucking rah yuppies and students, and they don't count as northerners.
(hi btw)
Couldn't live in the middle of any major city, too busy, too noisy, too stressful
WTF? Old face, long time no see KHSS
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Ideally I'd own my own small holding far away from the urban smog and live the rural life as much as possible but that's just a pipe dream. Urban and suburban life is realistically inescapable for most people unfortunately.
Saying that, i like peace and quiet and space and driving but also like living within walking distance of town/uni/work/tescos/friends. So much easier than at home where you have to get in the car to do anything. I guess i just want it all!
I couldn't live there.
I dont think I would like to live in London for very long, although i enjoy it for day trips.
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I like Leeds (to an extent anyway) don't get me wrong, I just think it's a rude city. Don't know why. I think it might be because of the large transient population, same as in London.
As for whether I could live in London, I used to think I'd hate it but now I'm not so sure. I have a few friends in London, I know where a few good pubs and restaurants are, I can avoid the tourist traps. I don't think I'd mind it.
My problem with living in London would be the expense. I couldn't afford to live in as nice an area as I do in Newcastle, even if I was earning an extra ten grant a year; where I live now is just a bog-standard suburb, it isn't anything posh. I wouldn't want to raise a family in Tower Hamlets, for instance, and if you end up living in zone five or zone six then you're really not in London anyway. I know how much friends have paid for their houses; whilst nice enough, the same amount of cash up here would buy you about a bazillion acres and 47 function rooms.
Unless youre earning a bloody fortune you live in a shoebox or a really shit area. Mostly both.
Where I live is less than an hour from London, My partner commutes into the city every day, so we have the benefit of much much cheaper housing, nicer area, yet London wages
The city centre is either awful, and full of weirdos, or getting a bit up itself and full of people so trendy I'm not sure even they know what they're wearing. The outskirts and suburbs have some really nice areas. I guess that's the way it is in a lot of big cities!
I love going home, but after living the small town lifestyle for a few years, I now avoid going into the centre of Leeds most of the time. There are still some nice parts in town, but they're getting less and less.
The city lifestyle probably suits urban types down to the ground, but it's not for me. Give me open fields, minimal Sunday trading and a large minority of BNP voters any day of the week
I'm sure one night when I went into McDonald's for a snack some guy went into the toilet and shot up, he was on edge, shaking and shit. Because I waited like 10 minutes and decided to just go elsewhere. Not a good sign when that's the first impressions of a city.
I know quite a lot of people who have, and are doing the whole "lets move to London, experience it first hand" thing, to live the lifestyle.
You see that in a lot of places though. In terms of drug abuse levels, the worst town I've seen is Penrith in Cumbria, which is a chocolate-box market town in the Lake District (full of farmers getting mullered and having a fight on a Saturday night).
The Royal Albion a few buildings down is pretty hit and miss too (more miss than hit), if you're ever thinking of booking a hotel in Brighton again.
I like the Queens because a late booking is cheaper than even Premier Inn and it's not bad comfort wise.