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@cornelius_blackfoot
I was going to post in this thread ages ago, never got round to it and have only just rediscovered this thread on my phone.
South london born and raised and I can't see myself moving out of london to anywhere else in the uk. Studied in Newcastle way back when, worked in Manchester for a year and can never get over the fact that those places and the other cities I've visited/worked in (Liverpool/Bristol/etc) are so much smaller than the city I grew up in.
I want kids and have no problem with them being raised in the three bed flat I grew up in and now own. I want them to be city kids, comfortable with the madness and the bustle of london and to be Londoners, like I am. But I do yearn for more space, a shed/garage/bike man cave (probably been watching too much grand designs) but the outskirts of london/suburbs hold no interest to me, and currently my salary isn't enough to buy somewhere larger close to where I grew up. I want my kids to be around others who are dark of skin and as you head out of london into the south east coloured folks thin out. I want them to see and know people of different colours and religions and to feel comfortable around people from all over the place.
If I do leave london it'll be to another big cultural city in some other country (why I'm voting remain) as I'm a city boy and the countryside whilst lovely to visit and ride through isn't somewhere I want to settle.