To wonder how people cope living in London?!

[WinterIsHereJon]

I'm visiting for the weekend. It's hot, sweaty, incredibly busy. We had the misfortune of travelling on the tube during rush hour earlier, people pushed and pushed onto an already full train, to the point where I became rather intimately acquainted with a chap behind me. Despite the complete lack of room people were still attempting to read newspapers! I think I'd snap if that was part of my daily routine, I don't know how people do it!

I couldn't make those pictures work btw so there's a selection. The 'faces' of tube trains always make me smile. That and spotting black mice on the tracks.

When I moved out of London, the first thing I noticed was the sky. As in, here it's blue with little fluffy clouds in it unless there's a good reason, but in London it's just light grey and heavy looking for most of the year.

WTF?

CherryPicking I don't know what colour the sky is in your world but today, the sky in Central London is blue, criss-crossed with vapour trails from planes going to other bits of the world that people may or may not prefer.

Cherry, the sky is the same everywhere(depends on the weather), its utterly blue in London today.
Limited: we live in Richmond so its very village feel, the park is godsend, I love the riverside also. Compare to any other capital in the world London is the best of everything(we are foreigners)

I live in semi rural Scotland and love my trips to London. The tube is seriously brilliant. You can get all over the place with no more than a 3 minute wait, maximum. I find people very friendly and the cosmopolitan buzz is exciting and makes you feel alive.
Here, public transport is shocking. Have to travel o Glasgow or Edinburgh for decent museums, theatres, art galleries etc, people are insular and suspicious of " outsiders". Oh, and the weather is crap . I like London and love it when work sends me there on a business trip.

It's what you like though isn't it?

Love the hills and dramatic wild scenery that you get more in the rural areas. Not interested in bars or dining out. Not interested in shopping. i can easily make the trip into town if need be.

Londoner born and bred here and j hate London in the heat. Just returning to it after a week in rural isolation and whilst I wouldn't want to live there I am dreading returning to the pollution and heat and crowds.

I've always liked Richmond Greenleave. Glad you like it, especially since you are a forriner . I live five minutes from the river and even though there are only a few miles between us, and both places are nice, the differences are distinct so I get people talking about London villages.

Sorry if it seems like I'm being picky CherryPicking, but what is this 'good reason' for grey, forbidding skies of which you speak? Nuclear winter? They were also quite a feature in Wuthering Heights, which is regarded as a classic of romantic fiction and was not set in London, as far as I recall.

When I moved out of London, the first thing I noticed was the sky. As in, here it's blue with little fluffy clouds in it unless there's a good reason, but in London it's just light grey and heavy looking for most of the year.

Wtf?

My view, right now:

There's duckling there. It's on the right

It's kissing a surprised thing. It looks a bit like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas but it might turn into a Care Bear

It's defiantly blue skies in central London today

We get grey sky's, but that's when the weathers crap, not because of London air

No one has mentioned black snot yet

The sky right now in Richmind Park. And the deer.

Oh yes, black bogies

From here

uk-air.defra.gov.uk/

The air quality is currently better here at my postcode in central London, than it is on the Norfolk cost or Yarmouth canals

*norfolk coast

Richmond, even... Anyway, this is how the Thames looked around here at lunchtime.

Also half the Yorkshire dales national park is level 3 pollution today. It's level 2 in central London

Yes the black snot thing. I found that really yuk. Do you all still get it?

Some heavy, grey skies. Like most of the time. Just wiping up some black bogies.

the black snot is actually metal shavings from the tube tracks in the tunnels.
I don't get black snot if I travel overground.

I'm another just down the road from Richmond Park one way and the Thames the other. Lovely. Our little suburb ( just next to Richmond) is definitely a village. As is nearby Barnes.

Tired of London tired of life.

The sky over my London home - looks blue with fluffy clouds?

South London's always felt homier to me, Limited. I was up in Elstree the other week and discovered that half the buses there didn't take Oysters.

Completely flummoxed and ended up walking.