AIBU to miss living in London?

[Youngatheart00]

Moved out of london 18 months ago to where I’m from originally - however I lived in london post study and for around 15 years. Rented in the glamorous areas and bought in a not so glam area. Now live in a lovely place but it’s very much not london and I miss it. Whenever I’m there for work i pine for it - even the smell of the underground stations (I know!!)

How do others feel?

YABU - get over it
YANBU - london is the best / I miss it too

I miss living in London - in that I miss being a carefree twenty-something, going out for endless dinners, drinks and dancing, lazy brunches and weekends shopping and going to cool arty events with my mates. Working all hours in a fun exciting job, grabbing last orders and pizza in the pub with my colleagues.

Not sure I’d miss it so much as a Mum in my forties trying to juggle work and home life and trying give my child a calm, happy childhood. So much easier in a small leafy city where work finishes at 5pm and the commute is a short walk home.

Not me!

I love London. Spent my lunch hour walking 4 miles round heaths and commons, including a SSI, and archaeological remains, watched a heron terrorise some smaller fowl before settling in a tree.

At weekends and holidays we camp, walk miles, swim in the sea, explore every hill and coastal region possible. Visit wider family who live in a village in Deep Rural (where I come from).

But like today, when I will hop on public transport and be at the National Theatre in 27minutes, I love the city for its non stop choice of culture, a strong sense of community in all the residential areas I have lived that is open and inclusive to a truly diverse collection of people, unlike the cliquey, suspicious, gossip-driven nature of my roots in Deep Rural. (Kindly with distribution of windfall apples and un-plucked duck, though).

OP: I think you make the best of anywhere hurling yourself in and seeing what it has to offer. You will never enjoy your new location if you keep looking in your rear view mirror. Give it a fair chance, try things you never thought you would… but if in the end it still doesn’t work, can you come back?

I probably missed it for about 2 years after we moved out, now I love visiting but wouldn't want to live there. It helped when I had children, as suddenly our life was here rather than there.

We moved out of London 28 years ago to a rural area outside a big northern city. We’ve just rented a flat in central London again because DH has changed jobs for a few years before retirement. It’s so much fun being back in London, we’re loving it. The only problem is that we’re acting as if our life is one long weekend mini-break. With all those lazy brunches, fabulous restaurants, shows etc that pps say they miss we are haemorrhaging money! I so wish we could afford to buy our rental flat and divide our time in the future, I think a London retirement would we wonderful < sighs and looks into buying an Omaze entry>