To just occasionally get annoyed with London?

[Imafairy]

I live in London. I get paid more for doing my job in London than if I was living elsewhere in the country.
However,

• It costs me more than the average national wage to send my DSs to daycare.
• I have just sold my 3-bed flat for what would buy me a sizeable pad anywhere else in the country
• We pay a bloody fortune to travel by trains and tubes that don't work if the weather is too hot / too cold/too wet / too dry / too snowy / not snowy enough.
• We can't drive anywhere because you have to pay a frigging congestion charge to get anywhere worth going, and when you do get there parking costs about £10 per hour

(But I do love it really, just having one of those days)

Yes you are unreasonable
stop being such a wuss

Every so often I get a bit annoyed too, Imafairy. You forgot how rude and unfriendly some people can be, taking a buggy on public transport and how bad London can smell sometimes. Book yourself a trip to the theatre!!!!

yep you're being unreasonable LOL!

i moved back to london end of last summer and i am sooo happy.

the goods far outweigh the bads and IME i've never had to struggle with the buggy up stairs etc, someone has always offered to help.

dd's effect on a bunch of tube travellers is fun to watch, they generally melt LOL.

1 tinsy bit of nastiness is the black snot you get when you travel by tube.......

and yes, occasionally it does smell a bit. especially when you get some unwashed undesirable plonk 'emselves right next to you on the bus/tube/dlr/overland LOL

With paddle on the help with buggies on the tube. Dont think I have ever gone up/down stairs with a buggy without someone insisting on helping. All sorts of people as well - warms the cockles of your heart.

i was born in st. thomas's hospital, lived all my young life in the brixton/clapham area of london. i love london. almost lived in topshop oxford st.

when i got married couldnt afford london prices so moved to a boring suburb, but still jump on the train at least once a month and breath in all the smoke. lovely!

Black snot! Paddlechick - bleurgh!! Funnily enough, since I gave up the tube in favour of my bike, I haven't had the black snot. You'd have thought it would be worse, cycling behind all those buses, lorries and what not

You're being perfectly reasonable! I am five months pregnant, obvious bump, never get a seat on the tube as I am so rammed up against the doors nobody could possible offer me one as I'm so far away from the seats! Grrr.

It drives me nuts! I try and walk over some of my fav bridges at night preferably to remind me why I live here and why I love it!

ditto Clapham Lauren!

Imafairy, BIL and SIL recently moved to London (we've lived here for 4 years now) and the comments we get from other family members about how they are struggling more because London is more expensive than they're used to are outrageous! What do they think we've been doing the past 4 years!?!

(we do love it here, esp down by the river!)

ooooh i miss the bridges at night

and food shopping

and restaurants that aren't part of some grotty chain

and being able to walk home

Cycling really makes London more tolerable and pleasant. I bike into the City and back out every day, with 1 or 2 kids on my bike, too. Makes our days much more pleasant than being stuck on a tube or bus.

arghhhhh @cyclists, some are wonderful on the road and I don't want to group them as all being the same, but living in oxfordshire, going into the city is a nightmare, they honestly seem to think they own the flipping roads, and these are roads with cycle paths on them!!!!!!!!!!!!!