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loved london for a long time, ended up moving to holland a few years ago as my girlfriend was dutch. took me a while to adjust, but ended up loving it, my quality of life was so much better. Anyway, relationship went pop, and due to unusual circumstances have ended up back in london again. Have been finding it really hard to settle back in (despite all of my mates being here). The weekend cycling has been the biggest loss, but really miss the beach, slower pace of life, moving around the country, living in my own place (now rent a bedroom again) and obvs the cost of living. Can see why you want to leave. When you've been away from london for a while, you forget how mental it is.
London is amazing, and it is easy to overlook the things you take for granted but i know i'll eventually leave. Don't know where else in the UK i'd go though. I'm from birmingham - don't think i'll ever move back. Went to Manchester for Uni - had a great time, but wouldn't move back there either. Honestly have no idea why people think it's so much better than birmingham, they're pretty similar.
Anyway, longer post than i anticipated - in short, move to holland.>
Lived in Birmingham for my formative years, lived in London for 10 odd years and now back in Brum (it's shit). Want to move to Amsterdam- it reminds me of London from 10 years ago, but a lot, lot cheaper.
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loved london for a long time, ended up moving to holland a few years ago as my girlfriend was dutch. took me a while to adjust, but ended up loving it, my quality of life was so much better. Anyway, relationship went pop, and due to unusual circumstances have ended up back in london again. Have been finding it really hard to settle back in (despite all of my mates being here). The weekend cycling has been the biggest loss, but really miss the beach, slower pace of life, moving around the country, living in my own place (now rent a bedroom again) and obvs the cost of living. Can see why you want to leave. When you've been away from london for a while, you forget how mental it is.
London is amazing, and it is easy to overlook the things you take for granted but i know i'll eventually leave. Don't know where else in the UK i'd go though. I'm from birmingham - don't think i'll ever move back. Went to Manchester for Uni - had a great time, but wouldn't move back there either. Honestly have no idea why people think it's so much better than birmingham, they're pretty similar.
Anyway, longer post than i anticipated - in short, move to holland.