To ask what you love most about London?

[Lopsidedlou]

Decided to take the bus instead of tubes home today just because I had some time and like looking down from the top of a double decker and was just reminded of how much I love the city.
I’d say I love (apart from the typical attractions and museums and parks) the sense of just ‘coolness’ around the place- real sense of style with lots of the people you see. And Morley’s (south )

The No. 53 bus! The No. 171 bus!

All of it! It's got it all going on!

I love loads of other parts of the country. Of Europe. Of the world. But coming back to London.....This is home!

Every time I’m in small town or village or really rural remote and I think ‘this is great’ I imagine actually living there forever and I hightail it back home. My dp who kind of wants to live rural said ruefully a few years ago ‘you’re never going to move out of London are you’. I just said ‘No’.

The fact that in my (senior professional) work team of 6 people, I work with a Muslim woman from Bangladesh, a Nigerian Christian man, an Irish Catholic woman, an atheist Filipino, an agnostic Norwegian and a Buddhist Thai woman - and the fact that we love discovering each other's cultures every day. No one eats plain sandwiches at lunch time

My kids school friends are equally diverse and it's just not a thing.

We live with and love immigrants- and we voted Remain.

I love the buzz. The world class restaurants and the arts. There is always something going on and it’s full of interesting people from every country in the world.
I also have a fondness for London Underground. Having used it every day while pregnant, not once did I ever have to ask anyone to give up a seat. Sometimes when I actually wanted to stand, I’d see about 4 people trying to catch my eye to offer me one. Same with the buggy, i had help lifting it up and down the steps every single time. Really restored my faith in people. I generally love Londoners.

atilathehunter I read that and felt personally proud that ‘we’ had been so helpful. Definitely feel part of the whole here eh ?

Everything but especially the diversity and acceptance

As Vivienne Weswood said "There's nowhere like London. Nothing at all, anywhere"

I love being surrounded by the history and beauty of the buildings, the variety of things to do and places to see (a lot of them for free) and I love being part of it. I've lived here for nearly 30 years, and have never been bored.

I lived there for years when I was younger.I like that I can spend time there and know my way around easily and do thing I can't do anywhere else.
But I dont miss the crowds and pushing getting on and off tubes,the lack of any eye contact,that everyone is rushing,and the filth from your nose whenever you blow it.
I love where I live now,it is not as rich(in terms of facilities ,schools and transport that Londoners moan about because they don't realise how little is spent elsewere )and diverse as London.Does not have as many flashy shops or variety of takeaways but it has lots of green countryside,clean air,people apologising if they bump into you,less rush and stress.
I do miss the better weather though and the real markets,our local one has become an over priced farmers market.

tutting at people who don't understand the "stand to the right walk on the left rule of the escalator

I love the ambience in the summer particularly, walking through the streets with people congregating outside bars and restaurants

I found that getting older made a lot of the 'buzziness' more of a chore, but I have changed my work hours and now commute at much emptier times, and nice people sometimes give me their seats!
I have also moved to a cheaper part of town where we can afford a bigish house, so cheaper areas do exist, and tend to be more peaceful and burb'y which is just what I'm after now.

I don’t like it anymore - lifelong Londoner

So I’ll say Hampstead Heath, if that counts

And all the ghost stories. I know everywhere has them, but I guess I’m particularly attached to ours, especially the Shivering Chicken of Highgate.

@NeckPainChairSearch
I’m not being witty
I grew up out of london, it is not diverse in the way London is.
I work with an Italian a Russian a North African a French person a Greek and a Spanish person.

Where I grew up the local kid who was Chinese was bullied to fuck.
Not in London
No city is as diverse and as welcoming.

I love the DIVERSITY! I love that there are people from all over the world who choose to make London their home; you see different cultures, taste different foods and hear different language.

I love the parks, museums and architecture of London.

especially the Shivering Chicken of Highgate

That is, admittedly, one of the best London ghost stories ever. It also always reminds me of George Michael, because the last time I was in the west cemetery, years ago he was standing by a grave I realised afterwards must have been his mother's.

I mean, this was when he was alive, obviously. Not a ghost George Michael carrying a ghost shivering chicken or anything.

What the effing jeff is the Shivering Chicken of Highgate?

Supposedly Francis Bacon's early experimental subject in frozen foods.

www.real-british-ghosts.com/highgate-chicken-ghost.html

And that’s why I love London.. all of the above but I have now learned something new about frozen ghost chickens....