To hate this Kind of sneering attitude to places outside London

[wasonthelist]

"many things in life would be better and cheaper if we all just gave up and moved to that six-bed detached in Ashby De La Zouch. But could you really subsist in a place where the height of culinary pleasure is unlimited smarties on your ice cream at the local carvery?"

I am not sure if the author, Caroline Mginn, who wrote that in Time Out -
a) Really believes that Ashby has such limited culinary offerings (it doesn't)?
b) Thought she was preaching to the converted and no-one outside London would read it?

there's a fantastic perfume stall on the market at Ashby, piled to the gunnels and the stallholder knows where everything is. Ooh I might have to go to Ashby tomorrow now, market,then cake and coffee and a good mooch in St Giles bookshop :)

Agree that there are pros and cons of London and elsewhere but it is absolutely not the case that London is the only place where there is any culture, restaurants or well paid jobs, as ' the media' repeatedly claim.

However I've come to the conclusion that almost everything in most print media is total tosh.

As an example I read today in a hiking magazine an article that started from the premise that the only thing that anyone ever does on holiday in Tenerife is lay in the sun and get pissed.

They then repeated this offensive stereotype several times before going on to say 'or if you are really clever and adventurous like us you could go hiking in the mountains'. Again it was a total tosh article ruined by the writer being too keen to demonstrate how much more interesting and happening he was than other people.

Incidentally I am currently on a train travelling home north from London where I've been for a work meeting. Sadly I didn't have time to see or do anything interesting but they did make the Inspector Sands announcement, several times with increasing urgency while I was getting on the underground. I assume it was a test but there really is no point in using a code word when it is repeated like that. I was half glad when my tube left the station but also wondering if I should have gone outside instead.

"I think this thread can be summarised by saying there are cunts everywhere and most people are happy where they live and don't fancy living elsewhere."

That's it in a nutshell

"One thing is apparent from this thread; even the most parochial and closed-minded London can't compete with Northerners for sheer smugness!"

Would you like a spade?

I did think of this thread when I read this.
I post without comment.

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/london-property-market-boosted-by-people-pretending-grim-places-are-great-2013053070398