London's famous London

Not to lower the tone... then took me to the VD clinic.

Wahey! American humo(u)r...

crossing the bridges, any bridges, everytime it feels like my lungs inflate with pride as i look left or right, up or down river. Great looking city.

+1

Boris Johnson.

crossing the bridges, any bridges, everytime it feels like my lungs inflate with pride as i look left or right, up or down river. Great looking city.

Good point, well made... I still get that...

+1 RPM

As i've mentioned previously i'm giving up my career as a IT manager to become an architect (start in UEL next week), since doing this London has become a city for me, i look at it in a completely different mind-set. It's got much more to offer me now, so i supose what you do in the city can make it or break it for you.

cheap

if you think that london is cheap try living anywhere else in the world other than japan! london is so expensive, anywhere in europe is 10%s cheaper, especially berlin.

Moscow in the most expensive city in the world at the moment.

Beer.

The beer.

It's all about the beer.

EDIT: and the money and the drugs and THE FORUM

EDIT EDIT: and your mum

Moscow in the most expensive city in the world at the moment.

Unless you are one of the poor there.. or know where to shop.. etc.

Beer.

The beer.

It's all about the beer.
You say that about every town!

The fact that it's Earth's Capital City. You can do anything you want here, we are spoilt for choice. The best music, fashion, food.

You're having a fucking laugh! Music = probably, fashion = no idea, food = no fucking way!

You say that about every town!

You got me! ;)

Okay, well it's closer to Belgium than Melbourne was, how's that?

if you think that london is cheap try living anywhere else in the world other than japan! london is so expensive, anywhere in europe is 10%s cheaper, especially berlin.

Berlin is sooooo cheap... Makes me sick... London is NOT cheap... FYI, Mr picco...

I love London because:

its big and sprawling, yet small and intimate at the same time,
the roads twist and turn, with no pattern,
when I cross a bridge any bridge heading south I know I'm home,
you get council estate beside georgian town houses, besides masionettes, beside victorian terraces
you've got open house in sept where all the magnificient buildings right across the big smoke are open to everyone
it doesn't care where your from, or where your going to, because when your here, your a londoner
night rides round richmond park
summer days on clapham common filled to bursting with people enjoying the sunshine, cause they don't have a garden big enough to swing a cat in.
good times at carnival, block up, listening to good tunes and get red eye
if i can decipher and travel on the tube I can travel on any underground/metro system in the world,
the people are politer than you think
people all over want to come to london's famous london to experience what I get to see everyday,
a forum like this exists that spreads the joys of london to even more people,
I was born and raised here,
of misty mornings riding through battersea park and over battersea bridge and not being able to see albert bridge
its full of rich and poor and all those in between
there's madness on the streets and how you deal with it says more about you than you think
no matter how many gated communities they build, you've still got to come out of your front door and engage with the area in which you've chosen to live,
the henry moore sculpture exhibition in kew gardens took my breath away,
as did antony gormley's figures on waterloo bridge and the london skyline,
because even though we want to be european, and have a cafe culture, we don't get enough sun to truly pull it off, but we keep trying
when people slag it off, I want to have a go at them, I'm prouder and more protective of london the city than I am of my own physical home.

oii watch it you!

I take it you don't live in north London then? ;)

I love London because:

you get council estate beside georgian town houses, besides masionettes, beside victorian terraces

you're right Corny, those council estates get ruddy everywhere.

You're having a fucking laugh! Music = probably, fashion = no idea, food = no fucking way!

Fashion, yes way! Some of the the best fashion colleges in the world are in London. Maybe the populus have no idea but check out the more trendy area's and people, world leaders.

Food, so so. OK they bend you over a barrle for good ingredients. But it depends if you buy food froom gregs or the (my) local deli.

Unless you are one of the poor there.. or know where to shop.. etc.

Indeed. My coment is based on a standard equation for valuing the living costs and saleries and shit.

food = no fucking way!

Sadly I have to agree. Except for the lack of a decent curry, Toronto can wipe the floor clean with London.

By decent curry, I don't mean a bowl of essence of scotch bonnet with a lentil or two in it that'll make you crap fire for a month.

depends what food you mean, because of our thriving multiculturalism we have food form all over the place. Some of it is the best.

If you're just judging on "who's got the biggest steaks" then I suppose we lose

West Coast main line from Euston...

depends what food you mean, because of our thriving multiculturalism we have food form all over the place. Some of it is the best.
If you're just judging on "who's got the biggest steaks" then I suppose we lose

In Oz we have the variety.. but we also have decent ingredients.
London = epic fresh food fail. London = epic fast food fail.

Fashion = what? I wear t-shirts jeans and cycle in lycra ffs.. what would I know of 'fashion'?

I miss London, and after spending time away from it, I can happily say i want to move back.
Birmingham has it's purpose, but what is soooo noticable in the city centre, is that on a friday evening, all the business folk get the fuck out, and all the idiots and piss-heads come in... Full on for 48hours.
There is no sense of community here, with everyone giving it the "big-un" with their attitude.
There is no residential dwellings in the city, so no real "beers after work" feel, as everyone gets the hell out of the city. It sucks...

that's a shame to hear that about birmingtonham..

wasn't like that when I spent some time there in the early 90's