to get really terratorial when my friend puts down London

[whatwhatinthewhatnow]

I know the streets arent paved with gold. I know some area's are the total pits.

But I LOVE :

• Being able to buy anything at any time of night
• Being able to find a cinema that is showing anything I want to see
• Exhibitions
• West End Shows
• Going into the flagship stores and buying things you cant get elsewhere
• The landmarks
• The history
• Being able to get to the O2 just by driving!
• Having loads of restaurants to choose from
• Being able to go to burlesque shows/clubs/etc and then just getting the night bus home
• Festivals in Hyde Park
• The music venues
• Camden Market
• Having coffee at Covent Garden piazza
• Walking around Soho and feeling like you are on holiday

theres so much more, I could go on forever.

She moved when we were teenagers to an area in the north. And what I hate the most is when she says 'Your town doesnt even have a Primark' (we live in a cheaper suburb now and commute in)

No but we have the flagship London store. Opposite Selfridges. Her response, 'Yeah but ours has two floors' How can you rate a place based on whether it has a Primark?!?!!?

If she goes out for dinner, she has a choice of Pizza Hut or a takeaway curry! You cant even BUY a house worth more than £250k! They dont HAVE ANY in her town!

AIBU? I just love my hometown!

No you're not and I miss my home city for all those reasons and more.

I was going to say YANBU but then I read this
'If she goes out for dinner, she has a choice of Pizza Hut or a takeaway curry! You cant even BUY a house worth more than £250k! They dont HAVE ANY in her town!'

You sound as bad as each other. Why put her town down,and complain about her putting down yours,even if it in response to her.

And wtf have house prices got to do with anything? There are plenty of people living in houses worth less than 250k in the Uk,and what of it?

I feel like thia as well when people slate London.

I just say "well, not everyone can keep up with the energy and vibe of the city....."

And primark in Oxford st has 3 floors......

• Afternoon tea at Libertys
• Regents Park boating lake
• Free evening papers
• The galleries

I heart London too

No, I also grew up in London and really took it for granted living there, last time I visited DP couldn't believe the house prices down the street where I was brought up (highest price was £1,300,000) as I live in a council estate now.

I lived in Lewisham/Blackheath borders and going to the city was the norm for me and I loved it, I still do but wouldn't live there again.

Every time I leave London for a destination in the UK, I feel like I am stepping into an episode of Little Britain, where the proximity of a Primark could be considered to be a real talking point. It's like stepping back in time, way back. And you don't have to go far, just a few miles north, south, east or west of the M25 will do it.

YANBU

*Trafalgar Sq
*The view from the southbank at sunset
*Carnaby St
*Public transport that gets you anywhere you need to go (and thoug we moan about it, it's far better than an hourly bus service which only takes you part way into town)

Oh don't start with that crap Snobear.
There are other cities in the Uk which have shops,museums,a variety of restaurants,and yes,even theatres,believe it or not.
London may have more,but we do have civilisation elsewhere,and don't all get excited over a Primark.

Letthereberock, shes the type of girl who hates other people having things she doesnt have. And this is an example. I actually like the area shes in, (some), its only when she starts slating London I think, er hang on... the measure of a place isnt its Primark.

london isnt my home town,but i have lived there twice now,and i adore it!!!

so wont hear a bad word said either.....live in a sweet looking country village,very chocolate box on the outside,but i want to go back to london

i knew my neighbours there for a start,not so much here,and the buses were great....i could go on.

I've never even lived in London but I get so furious when people slate it. Working there is completely different to anywhere else, the energy is incredible, the opportunities are boundless, the architecture is amazing, the restaurants are superb.

Bah humbug to the naysayers.

And could you really be happy with only 2 restaurants?!?!?!

She does sound incredibly irritating,and the Primark thing is a little odd,but the house price remark wasn't really necessary or germane to this topic.

I don't like my home town being put down either,it's not London btw,though I'll readily admit it has its faults,so I can understand your point of view also.

Where I live right now there aren't any restaurants. Though you don't have to go too far to find them,and we're near a major city.
I live in a rather isolated place with just a few neighbours,but there are larger towns within 15 or so minutes drive and other villages within 10.

I do miss living in a city,and I'd go back in a minute if I could.

LTBR, don't forget everywhere outside of the M25 is the same.

Just a vague mass of frumpy people, right?

People like Snobear are the reason that other Londoners get the reputation for being ignorant of the rest of the country.

She slates everything, says its dirty, too busy, doesnt have a Wilkinsons, too much crime (I googled that and her town has a worse drugs situation than our suburb, and worse sexual violence and robberies)

I think she probably deep down regrets moving and missing having her 20's here!

Oh and theres no QS. What IS a QS????

YABU. More for you, then!

I wouldn't live there in a million years, but if other people dig it, cool.

I've never heard of QS.

I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. I love London with a passion. I inwardly groan at people who 'leave London for the sake of the children'. I grew up in London and had a fabulous childhood.

I don't feel the need to put down other people's areas or ways of living, though. Rise above it.

That's right, everywhere else is shit.

You're right Sally. I'd forgotten that the UK consists of just London,and anything beyond that is 'Here be dragons' territory.

The way I see it is that if everybody agreed with everybody else over where the best place to live was it would be a very over crowded place surrounded by no mans land!
I am from Liverpool, lived in Soho for a while and now live in a little village in Oxfordshire.
I have love for all three, my heart is in the village I live in now, a real community, always something going on (but maybe not your fanny restaurants, gigs and shops) and beautiful countryside however if everyone thought the same it wouldn't be a rural village any more! I loved living in Soho, again it was a great community, couldn't walk down the street without seeing people I knew, fantastic energy to the place and so much to see and do but i kind of grew out of the whole living right bang in the middle of it all, was quite exhausting, by my mid 20's I was wanting a quieter life! Liverpool has some fantastic plus points and it is quite a different city then the one I left 5 years ago, the shopping for one thing, used to have to go to Manchester if you wanted a shopping day out but for all the good things in Liverpool there is a huge amount I really dislike and I would never live there again, love going up and seeing family and glad that I still have strong connections to my birth city but it is just not me anymore.
It is like the competitive parents thing, it is one thing to be proud of where you live but another thing completely to put down another place to big up your own, every single place in the world is somewhere somebody is proud to call home.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583200/The-top-50-places-for-quality-of-life.html

But how many London boroughs appear here.

To be honest Roadkill, I probably wouldnt have said she lives in a hole except for her constant barrage of London abuse.

Her FB status (with no provocation from anyone):as much as i enjoyed seeing the family i'm really not bothered about the area or its surrounding areas!!!!

Thats my home shes talking about!