London bashing

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Recently there seems to have been a spate of London bashing from friends and acquaintances who live elsewhere. I'm surprised that people think it is okay to totally slate the place that someone else lives just because it happens to be the capital.

I think London is awesome, possibly the bright centre of the universe but wouldn't dream of telling someone how ghastly, say, Lancashire is (I have never been to Lancashire, I am sure it is very nice, it is just an example).

AIBU?

They do south it cracks me up

BBQ. Its not a stereotype because Im talking about the people I actually know.

Ladybeagle. Like i said . . . The people I actually know, no sweeping generalizations. The people I actually know who chose to live her or not and the reasons they have given for that. I am pretty sure i didn't say "every single person in London . . . "

People
Don't bash London for being the capital

They bash it as it can be too
Abrupt, and is generally a rude place. ImE a lot less
People will help you in London. If you do meet a genuine nice person it's like 'omg you are sooooo nice. Thank you so much' as you cry tears
Of gratitude....

Whereas anywhere else in the uk it would be 'thanks!' because it's much more
Common

Also... London buses are awful and no one offers seats to pregnant women or the elderly etc

GENERALISATION [trophy]

I have been outraged on a London bus before though and was contemplating writing to the mayor! Then I realised t wasn't a bike issue

Cos no one in London moans about mundane things.
Um, that was a joke right?

all my friends round here are ex-Londoners. When I meet their friends there have been some amusing conversations along the lines of
"When did you move out then? What, you have always lived here! Oh. Right. Gosh."

They seem very taken aback. I don't know why. Perhaps it is the lack of a straw in my mouth

i always got offered a seat on the tube, bus and train when i was pregnant, and received help with buggy, offered seats when i am with ds :)

um no

Funnily enough my close friends here are all ex Londoners - just realised that.

south I know exactly what you mean, dh and I crack up at the headlines in our local paper because they seem so trivial and 'small town.'

I love it, it is just like the Archers.

the headline thing I mean

I think also the rest
Of us sometimes feel

'we are here too!!!! We matter!!! It's not ALL about London or jealousy! We just want some recognition!'

Speaking as a gal from the north east under a Tory government. They pretty much don't give a crap about you.

I had a conversation with a neighbour the other day about the way the bin men dropped a bit of rubbish on collection day last week. I found myself getting all bosom hoiky and outraged which is mad considering in London the bin lorry took the side of our parked car off it drove so close The trivial moans amuse me no end south

I get the impression that
Not London = the country for some
Posters.

There are other diverse cities and towns and places in the uk. You haven't got the monopoly on acceptance

London is very dirty. I was horrified at the black bogies the first time I visited London, I've never had that anywhere else.

I love London, I wish I'd lived there for a bit before having kids.

I wouldn't want to live in London because I'm not a fan of big cities in general - in the same way that I wouldn't want to live in Birmingham or Manchester.

I don't think I'm guilty of "London bashing" though - I've only ever been to London as a tourist so have no idea what the place is really like. I do know that I don't feel comfortable in big cities though.

trix and when you take your make up off the cotton wool is black - eurghh!

YANBU - I love London. Personally wouldn't live there all the time but I love, love, love to visit! :)

And just think of all the black stuff in your lungs that you can't wash off....

Actually I couldn't live there purely because of the water and how bad a cup of tea it makes.

Look at all this filth how do us Londoners manage to keep breathing?

I had a friend that used to go "uh London its so dirty etc etc". yes it is I agree, and if she had asthma or something I wouldn'tve miinded so much going to see her all the time in brighton weekend after weekend when she could only be arsed to visit me in london once.

I love London, it's a fantastic city and I visit regularly. I choose not to live there any more though, as I believe that I have a better quality of life elsewhere. I don't see why that should offend anyone.

poopoo, you sound laughably ignorant about life outside of London. We are not all racists and homophobes, you know. One of the things I love about the small town where I now live is its incredible diversity - and indeed, from what I read on here, I could be forgiven for thinking that integration is far better here than in London tbh.

I'm always looking for excuses to visit London, despite the black bogies. I plan my shopping route with military precision.

I don't get this 'black bogie' nonsense. I work in the City and live in North London meaning I am breathing in London air constantly (when i'm not indoors).

I have never experienced 'black bogies' while living here.

in fact I have asthma and the 'putrid and filthy London air' doesn't affect it at all. I remember my symptoms being a lot worse when I lived in semi rural Surrey.

As a side I adore flying over London coming into Heathrow on an early morning flight, such a beautiful rousing sight, it makes me proud to live here. I love looking at the reactions of first time visitors to the City straining their necks to catch a glimpse out of the plane window.