What's it like living in the City?

[d000hg]

I'm no country yokel, coming from a middle class family with parents who worked in IT, but I've lived the majority of my life in laid-back Cornwall and small-town Durham so the city lights aren't my turf.

So I wondered, what's living in London like? Is it really very different or just the same thing with more places to eat and people wearing stupid cloths?

[NickFitz]

I don't think there is anywhere to live in The City; it's one square mile filled with office blocks full of bankers and traders, a (very) few good pubs, and the odd Starbucks isn't it?

As for The Smoke: the only way I've ever lived there is Alan Partridge style, four nights a week in a Premier Inn, so I can't really help.

I think I may be the only person who positively enjoys riding on the Northern line from Edgware to Leicester Square and back.

[cojak]

The are lots of places I'd live near the City. I'd love to live there.

I'd look around Clerkenwell, or there's a nice development going up at King's Cross, or the apartments a St Catherine's Docks.

[shaunbhoy]

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So I wondered, what's living in London like?

It is an overpriced tuliphole full of loudmouthed, ignorant, intolerant wideboys and scruffy refugees. Avoid it like the plague.

HTH

[amcdonald]

I did the whole commuting thing from Dorset for years, when I got the opportunity I moved a lot closer to London, so now I have a 20 minute train journey into the city

I have the best of both worlds, easy access to London and two motorways almost on my doorstep

The other thing, anywhere decent in London costs a fortune, so unless you've got a big warchest it might make more sense to find somewhere close to London with good transport links.

[MarillionFan]

Lived in a caretakers flat it a corporate building on old street for 18 months. Pubs closed at 9, place was like a ghost town at the weekend.

Done the city thing now. Give me a nice piece of quiet countryside.

Bath is the nicest place I've lived, best mixture of 'city' and countryside all rolled into one.

[wobbegong]

It is an overpriced tuliphole full of loudmouthed, ignorant, intolerant wideboys and scruffy refugees. Avoid it like the plague.

HTH

In a nutshell!!

I did the whole commuting thing from Dorset for years, when I got the opportunity I moved a lot closer to London, so now I have a 20 minute train journey into the city

You moved AWAY from Dorset to be CLOSER to London?


Ah well, each to their own. I did it the other way around.

[MarillionFan]

It is an overpriced tuliphole full of loudmouthed, ignorant, intolerant wideboys and scruffy refugees. Avoid it like the plague.

HTH

Unlike your gaff and what you and the kids do to pass the time.

[d000hg]

The are lots of places I'd live near the City. I'd love to live there.

I'd look around Clerkenwell, or there's a nice development going up at King's Cross, or the apartments a St Catherine's Docks.

Stayed in a friend's apartment at St. Katharine's, very nice it was too - very quiet which was surprising.

When we visited London I was also taken aback how beautiful much of it was... expecting a big dirty mess but virtually everywhere we went there were lots of old buildings, areas of grass, etc. I guess London'sa bit unique in that respect - can't imagine the same in other big UK cities like Birmingham or Manchester? Glasgow perhaps, but that's hardly in the same league.

[Lockhouse]

I was born and brought up in North East London but now live in Winchester. I still work in The City.

Would I go back to live there? Not a chance.