You know you're ready to leave London when...

[highinthesky]

....you feel like greeting everyone that crosses your path on the pavement with a "Fucker, fuck off out of my way!". I felt the same way at 5.30pm as I did at 8am

But being the reasonable person I am, I realise that London needs tourists more than it needs me.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Oh that's exciting. Where are you off to?

[ocelot41]

You cry every time you have to come back from holiday as you feel you are being made to go back in a dirty, stressful too small cage. I used to love it in my twenties but the time definitely came to leave

[eyebrowseyebrows]

I second @QueenMortificado

Come to The City, we all walk 300 miles an hour with a purpose because we're very important and have very important meetings with other very important people the Starbucks barista don't you know

[eurochick]

The black snot is not a London thing, it's a tube thing. I hate the tube - it's so stuffy and grubby.

I love London though, but I have some sympathy about the tourists. I cross the millennium bridge as part of my commute and so many walk in groups, slowly, blocking the entire thing! Grrrr.

[WalkingInTheAir13]

Bumbling tourists clogging up the streets drive me crazy too!

However, I had to smile at the Japanese couple I saw standing outside Selfridges. They wore pollution masks covering their mouths and noses BUT they pulled them aside every now and again ...... to have a big drag on their cigarettes!

[highinthesky]

Oh that's exciting. Where are you off to?

Back to Essex (commuterville) so am less likely to spend time gallivanting in town in the evenings / weekends. I anticipate the journey home might actually help me destress a bit. Streets are relatively clear so I should be able to take a brisk walk in the evenings without tripping over the clueless.

It is a city thing though - was in Barcelona this summer and found it utterly unbearable!

[Gwilt160981]

They're all nut cases on oxford street and regent street. Don't look where they're going bump into ya. I couldn't live in london. Visiting is enough.

[HiJenny35]

Never, love London, privileged to live here and I will never leave. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. The noise, buzz, buildings, people, culture, attractions, food, theatre, mess, chaos I love it all.

[paxillin]

... you land a job in Tokyo or New York and London begins to look a bit provincial?

Otherwise, never I hope.

[alohaimnew]

standard for london though, is'nt it? I would miss it if i left. Along with the morning train shouting - 'can everyone please move down the carriage please, we all want to get to work you know!'. Hahahaha. I love london.