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Londoners have absolutely decimated my city

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CrushedOrange · 18/05/2024 12:41

NC as really outing.
I'm a musician and over the years I have seen what was a steady stream of londoners turn into a flood this year.
I'm so gutted. I know everybody has the right to live here but it has pushed so many of my friends out, artists and other musicians. It pisses me off that the whole reason these londoners moved here, they are also destroying.
I'm lucky as my landlord is really decent and hasn't put my rent up in years, so I can afford to stay here. But now I'm considering just leaving because of the vibe factor. It makes me really sad. I still gig a few times a week but the crowd is different. I miss my community, but now everybody is scattered as everyone who was pushed out has gone to different places.
I'm considering just jumping ship and moving on myself but I don't know where to go.
Today some more londoners moved into the street...The whole street is full of scaffolding as they seem to really love doing home improvements 😅
I know I sound really bitter. I guess I am. I don't know whether to stay or go, and of I go, where to?

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yaynottoolongtogonow · 18/05/2024 17:59

These type of comments piss me off completely!

Regular Londoners can't afford to buy in their home city as people from all over the world have moved there and priced them out of the market.

It's life and happens all over!

BMW6 · 18/05/2024 17:59

OP I know the perfect place for you.

Wiveliscombe in Somerset.

You're welcome.

Democracymanifest · 18/05/2024 17:58

billysboy · 18/05/2024 17:54

Until the planning system is freed up of red tape and power taken away from the nimbys lots more housing needs to be built to get the gap between supply and demand closer nothing will change
everyone agrees on the need for more housing but just not here !

More housing where though? There isn't anywhere for anything more than flats in the popular areas of the UK.

floppybit · 18/05/2024 17:55

Trust me, Birmingham and Sheffield really don't need you to come along and liven them up. They are pretty fucking awesome already.

billysboy · 18/05/2024 17:54

Until the planning system is freed up of red tape and power taken away from the nimbys lots more housing needs to be built to get the gap between supply and demand closer nothing will change
everyone agrees on the need for more housing but just not here !

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 18/05/2024 17:54

In was born and grew up in London.
When I was 19 I went I university in the NE of England - I wanted to get as far away as possible.
I moved to Yorkshire in the late 90s and have lived in and around Sheffield ever since. Am I allowed to do this? Or do Londoners have to stay there forever?

DramaLlamaBangBang · 18/05/2024 17:54

crumbpet · 18/05/2024 17:40

You have no more right to your city than they do. Your attitude is pretty nasty.

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. Sorry I made a mistake in my quoting and can't delete so I have to change it to a nonsense message!

BusyMummy001 · 18/05/2024 17:53

Wondering what the definition of a ‘Londoner’ is? Definition needed.

We moved to where we live now from a London postcode, but I grew up in E Sussex/seaside town and my husband in the Midlands. Are we allowed?

Dancehalldarling · 18/05/2024 17:53

CrushedOrange · 18/05/2024 12:56

Got it in one 😅

I'm not too sure where to go. A lot of people have gone to other cities like Sheffield or Birmingham. There are also quite a few who moved further along the coast, like Hastings or Worthing. These places definitely don't match up, but I'm tempted to do that as am quite energised by the idea of trying to grow a new community, just trying to assess whether those places can be livened up though, or whether I will leave town to try and contribute to creating a vibe somewhere else, only for it not to take off and then I will have lost my LL here. Guess that's a risk you just have to take though!

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Try Liverpool, you’ll feel like a billionaire house price wise!

Samcro · 18/05/2024 17:52

I want to know where all these Londoners are.
(((peer’s out of window))))

Tijk · 18/05/2024 17:52

Brighton was always a bit like that though. I went to university and then lived there afterwards in the nineties and everyone was saying the same!

Mariespip · 18/05/2024 17:50

Lots of people seem to have relocated from London during the pandemic to start families. There are lots in my city and I’ve made lots of new friends.
I’ve only met one person who grated on me when they said that my city is like a ‘little London’ but they have to go back to London twice a week to get their fix of the real thing.

0tteronalog · 18/05/2024 17:50

All this slagging off Brighton and saying it's a shit hole, it can't be that bad if people are willing to pay so much to live there. And the poster slagging off the blue hair brigade is just one of those people who hates trans people.
They're always slagging off the blue hair brigade on the FWR threads.
Also the schools aren't shit, my 3 kids are all going very well thank you.

mustgetoffmn · 18/05/2024 17:49

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 18/05/2024 12:44

How do you know they are "londoners" (whatever that means).

London! Some sort of commercial globalisation going on. I live in London and have the new Londoners moving in . Property obsessed even in their early 30s

coworkingdeskstation · 18/05/2024 17:49

Or you could argue that the people selling their houses probably ay a huge profit to the ex Londoners are the ones at fault.

muggart · 18/05/2024 17:48

Also, tell all your left Green voting brighton friends to stop supporting mass immigration if you dont want property to go up. You can't have it both ways.

Starseeking · 18/05/2024 17:48

SkillSet · 18/05/2024 12:42

Well, that’s Brighton for you.

As soon as I read OP, I thought this.

I live in London and have friends who go to Brighton every weekend looking for properties to buy. Blame the fast train to Victoria, which makes it commutable, especially if you only have to go in to a central office a few times each month.

muggart · 18/05/2024 17:47

OP, maybe you could try living in London for a little? I can assure you that there is plenty of music and art there. You might like it.

Plus, without being too harsh, you sound like you have a very narrow and prejudiced world view so it might do you some good to get out of your bubble and try living somewhere else.

Nanny0gg · 18/05/2024 17:42

CrushedOrange · 18/05/2024 13:11

I never said Sheffield or Manchester needed livening up, they're great cities.

But Hastings could do with a bit more to do

Maybe they like it as it is?

ArchaeoSpy · 18/05/2024 17:40

CrushedOrange · 18/05/2024 13:14

No it's not the same at all.

The Londoners are all about consuming rather than producing.

They want to live somewhere where they can consume art and music on tap, but they don't want to make any of it themselves. They just want to buy it.

They don't contribute to anything except pushing prices up. Oh and I guess the pavements have fewer weeds.

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why would they make it ? thats down to the singers, musician's, artist's etc

crumbpet · 18/05/2024 17:40

CrushedOrange · 18/05/2024 13:14

No it's not the same at all.

The Londoners are all about consuming rather than producing.

They want to live somewhere where they can consume art and music on tap, but they don't want to make any of it themselves. They just want to buy it.

They don't contribute to anything except pushing prices up. Oh and I guess the pavements have fewer weeds.

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You have no more right to your city than they do. Your attitude is pretty nasty.

GivePeaceAChance · 18/05/2024 17:39

Zigzagga · 18/05/2024 17:38

Mate Hastings is just as bad! They get called FILTH - failed in London try Hastings

I thought it was
Failed In London Tried Hong Kong

As an expat Hongkonger 🤣🤣🤣

Zigzagga · 18/05/2024 17:38

Mate Hastings is just as bad! They get called FILTH - failed in London try Hastings

Againname · 18/05/2024 17:37

Incidentally regarding Brighton. DH's childhood friend (from the SE but not London) moved to London years ago. He later moved to Brighton. No idea if 'born and bred' people from Brighton consider him a Londoner. He doesn't. He sees himself as someone who's moved around but is originally from his home town, then lived in London, and is now living in Brighton.

Definitely the issues of jobs and housing pressure, and mass movement of people, need to be addressed (in a compassionate way) but how boring and depressing if nobody ever moved somewhere else.

If my friend hadn't moved here from London years ago I wouldn't have her in my life and she's a very good friend. I also have a lovely neighbour who moved here from abroad a couple of years ago (in case it's relevant and I don't know if it is, my neighbour has a relatively well paid job and a mortgage).

WellySunHat · 18/05/2024 17:35

I have lived in London all my adult life so call myself a Londoner, whatever anyone thinks. I have zero desire to live elsewhere.

I have seen comments by people in Norfolk and Cornwall that would put me off moving there. I am surprised to see that Brighton is also anti-Londoner though.

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