Can we have separate board for London

Well I think it's a great idea.

And I also think the experience as a tourist is really different to living there. I'm moving there this summer and I'm going to want fuck tons of recommendations for shops to buy furniture, local restaurants/pubs/shops/coffee shops in the areas I live, walk through and work.

Also, even though London is huge people travel around it a lot to go to work and visit friends/areas - being on a local board is not enough.

There's other stuff - half term activities, after school activities, etc etc.

Between us our family is in 5 different boroughs on a typical day. It's a pain having such narrow local boards.

Of course they would.

I'm not sure why wanting to talk about local issues etc automatically means hatred for other parts of the country?

I'd just like to be able to go to one local board to look at the recommended childcare (for example) rather than four different ones

Get with the times Hennifer you can't buy Time Out anymore. It's only available to pick up within zone 1 (which kind of defeats the object for Londoners outside) Though my info is probably out of date too

I have a great capacity for not-hating. I can love London without hating other places. :)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2579488-To-hate-this-Kind-of-sneering-attitude-to-places-outside-London?

Some people think we're all like that. Let's not give them ammunition.

How the fuck does going to the theatre or on a walk differ when you are a Londoner compared to a tourist

And erm coffee shops. They're very Londoney too.

It's good for everyone else to mix with us and see that we're not all idiots, though.

Have you seen the thread in active ATM?

Also, one step further on the 'taking yourself seriously' scale and you will nearly be a hipster.

Be really careful.

antimatter I'm about to meet DS there. It's between home and school and I'm working from home today. :)

I don't think we need a separate London topic - maybe just an amalgamated local board?

I think it's a good idea antimatter. You're quite right about the local boards being too specific. I live in one borough, work in another but often go out in all kinds of places - or am going out there and need to know about things like good restaurants, bars, etc

Oh my good lord just buy a copy of time out FFS

Or start a thread in chat

'BTW - criticising someone about bad spelling is a known tactic on the net, so I won't get drawn into this discussion'

seriously? A known tactic for what???

And erm coffee shops. They're very Londoney too.

sorry think link didn't work

This is a great thread started by me last year with loads of ideas and things to do off the beaten track in Lunnun thread for Londoners.

We really don't need a separate topic for London though! We've got literally hundreds of surplus topics already.

We do have, for instance, mayoral elections, large events taking place which cause disruption, a very different travel system, crazy house prices & rental rates, blah blah etc. I can't imagine the many mners who aren't in London are very interested in taking about all that crap. And, as the op said, mn local pages are only for small areas of London.

Not that I would want to talk about any of that, but some people might

I see your £2.80 coffee and raise you a £1.20 coffee in my local cafe. (Confession: I'm a coffee near-agnostic and will drink almost anything that's not Starbucks' or nescafe, but I like this coffee. Given that I can't get the type that we get where I grew up ... )

If you get a board I'll come and talk London with you. I love London.

Yes, there are lots of us ducky, but we don't have a separate legal, political or education system, or a unique language, or any of those sorts of things that sustain the Scotland board.

We get enough accusations of this that and the other from everyone else as it is

How about -
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