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Those articles... pfft
Moving to LA "we want to live in a city that's a livable place to work, where we can raise our family, and where we can run our respective small businesses" dafuq?
"walkable" ? Really? I thought they banned walking in the constitution?
"The USA is putting curbs on surveillance" ahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hahahahaaaaa
"Tube effectively out of service on weekends and bank holidays" Bullshit.
"you have to pay to drive your own car, and 20p a minute to park it" Yeah, ride a bike you lazy shit."you can't start from scratch in London anymore. If you're not backed by family money or earning above the minimum threshold (a six-figure salary), then your standards have to be vastly different from mine". I guess they are vastly different.
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"
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Awesome that someone finally started this thread. London has always been a city where people come and go, but recentley the zeitgeist seem to have shifted to a lot more talk about going rather than coming.
This or this for example.
These discussions can quickly get a bit English dinner party with housing prices being the main focus. But for me personally that is not the major concern, I've had awesome luck with my one bedroom in zone 1/2 so cost of living should be manageable in the short to medium term.
But the London I came to in the 1990s has slipped away from me by the time I finally have the time and resources to properly enjoy it.
From back in the day I remember casual barbecues in back gardens in Islington and Brixton, where I'd bump into regular folks like nurses, shop assistants, civil servants and waitresses who managed perfectly ordinary lives with a spouse and kids in zone two and three. Now those people seem to be mostly gone, these days I only meet people who have just arrived and are working their ass off, or banker types who live in a different stratosphere anyhow.