Can we have separate board for London

That's the point isn't it though pirate?

When I look at the education boards I'd rather it wasn't crammed with questions about specific schools. That could be dealt with on a local board if they weren't so narrowly focussed

I agree that the local boards don't really work for London - maybe the answer is to have one London local board with talk topics for smaller areas as needed.

BYOSnowman It's bloody hilarious that you've mentioned schools.

There's barely a mention of schools outside London on the Education boards.

Can I moan my tits off about Boris all day long?

Throwing my hat in too. I would like a London board for things to do in London with/without kids. I'm always googling and the same blogs come up again and again in central London but I am sure there are fab places further afield that I don't know about as there are fab places in my borough that people don't know about.

I hope very much that tourists would use it.

And commuters, so they can be on MN local where they live, but gripe talk about travelling to and working in London in a topic.

And I think it shouldn't be a local board, so that people who only want to chat about London from time to time don't have to faff to register a separate name for it.

I think it's a bonkers idea and I live in a South London borough.

I'd like to see a London board too, for all the reasons stated by supportive pp's. Requests from visitors for day out recommendations/places to eat/best way to travel around/where to stay/park/take a toddler are very frequent in chat and it would be much more useful to have it all in one place, for visitors or residents.

I'd like a London board

I dont know if anyone really uses the local boards much, do they? I'm sure some are busier than others, but mine was tumbleweedy last time I looked which was sometime in the late baroque

What's to stop a tourist using a London board too?

Really odd attitude that this is being asked for because 'London is speshul '. It's because the local boards are too narrow but for some reason mn decided that London needed to be split up

I think it's a great idea. I live in one (outer) London borough, used to work in central london and am totally out of touch with what's new and good anymore. I'm always in London with DD in the holidays and am constantly looking out for what's good and new and interesting. It would be great to get and give personal recommendations. I also have plenty of friends in neighbouring and far-flung boroughs and beyond and I'd like to know about good places to go when meeting up.

I don't think that makes me outrageously pretentious, does it? (Don't ask me to grow a beard or wear a tweed waistcoat, for Christ's sake.. )

MN Local at borough level does seem excessively local to me. A local board that covered London seems more sensible but MN could poss offer both, so if you spent your entire life lurking inside a single borough you wouldn't have hear about the goings on elsewhere in the city. But a more general board would be more useful to me as a regular visitor.

great idea. and yes Time Out is a pile doo doo now. Can't find local events on it any more. I think it would be good to post up things here, things happening, good cafes etc etc. Local Boards don't do it.

'London just ain't that speshul!'.

No one is saying it's "speshull" for everyone. It's pretty "speshull" for those of us who live here and love it though.

Is that OK?

I was just going to say that no tourists would come to my part of London, but they've actually built a few hotels here.

There are also visiting relatives. They are different from Londoners and "normal" tourists, I think. They are often accompanied by Londoners to do touristy things, but also accompany Londoners to do school runs and supermarket shopping, which is an odd experience, having been the tour guide myself...

Pirate - I agree. I've lived there, commuted there, visited as a tourist and well 'London just ain't that speshul!'.

I've eaten in London restaurants where you can get things like fresh asparagus dipped in quails eggs picked only that morning and sent by special courier for lunch time but then again that sort of thing just practically grows in the hedges round here.

London is its own little amazing bubble. Its also just another grubby overcrowded metropolis.

Of course it's different pirate

Tourists aren't interested in schools or clubs or property etc etc

I've lived in a few cities and my needs as a tourist are different to those of a resident. How is that pretentious?

why bother having the local boards for anywhere then?

I've lived in London and visited as a tourist. It isn't that different and anyone who says it is is being a pretentious knob

"Also it would mean that all those threads about how to travel on the tube, when to visit the NHM etc would be in one place"

If that was how it worked out, I think it could be very helpful.

It would rather depend on people actually using the topic though.

MN Local is pretty useless for Londoners, as the chances of you living, working, socialising and using/considering schools in a single borough is lower than non-Londoners might realise.

And if Yorkshire MNetters want a board, they could start a thread to scope views on that. But I can see it might make sense to start with the most populous region and see how it fares.

I think it's a good idea too.
Sending us to MN Local kind of misses the point. Today my four yr old and I have spent time in four different London boroughs. This is not unusual. To suggest that I should join ten or fifteen different MN Local boroughs just to keep up is a bit
Also it would mean that all those threads about how to travel on the tube, when to visit the NHM etc would be in one place, which would save us constantly repeating our advice in Chat.