To think the average Londoner is better looking?

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I’m from a town near Manchester. Often go to towns nearby and into Manchester. There are all sorts of people of course.

I am currently in London and I can’t get out of my head that the average person here is much more attractive than the average person outside of London. I can’t place why. Is it that people here have more dosh for skincare?😂

Sorry to say but even in the broker area of London not just zone 1.

People in the south are less likely to be overweight, suffer underlying health conditions and are wealthier on average. This will impact appearance.

I'm also in Scotland and find the same. So much obesity, smoking and poor dress sense.

Me too 🍿

It must be the circles I move in but around the South East London corner I inhabit there's all sorts. No better looking or groomed than my home of origin in the East Midlands. Apart from (of course) the super rich in West London zone 1&2 who can afford expensive clothes, top-price hairdressing, personal trainers and beauty treatments on tap. The rest of us are just trying to get by in this expensive city like most people are in the UK now. That's my experience anyway.

I mean London is full of people from all over the country and world, so I don't think that actually londoners look better. And tbh it's not something I've noticed

I think it's probably that
A) a lot of people are tourists, either there on holiday, for an event, a work thing and so these people will be putting more effort into their appearance
B) you get a higher proportion of rich people who have money to put into their appearance

Classic . Are you David Attenborough?

Where is OP and exactly which part of London is she referring to? Chiswick? Harlesden? Hackney? The City?

Former Londoner here. If you're a tourist you're likely to be walking around in 'nice' touristy areas full of other tourists who, by definition, will be well-off enough to have come to London for a break and will probably have planned their outfits and be taking loads of selfies — so full make-up and hair because they're making memories and they don't want to look rubbish. Plus the Londoners you're seeing (particularly at the weekend) are the people who can afford to live in those affluent areas of central London. Many of them will be wealthy incomers from other parts of the world and wealthy people tend to look good because they have the time/ money and boost their wealth and the next generation's genetic inheritance by marrying very good-looking people.

Get on a bus out to Tower Hamlets or Lewisham, the kind of areas where ordinary Londoners live, and you'll see more people like those from your home town.

What a kind compliment. Thank you. I think it’s the diversity of the gene pool, at least that’s always been my assumption.

Well if you walk around Kensington or Knightsbridge that will be true. I notice this when I go there for lunch or dinner after living in Shoreditch which has a very different vibe and style 😁

Ooh, I live on the border of London/ Essex. I wonder what our local 'look' is.

@Pluvia how rude - I'll have you know we Lewisham people are stunning! 😆

I had to leave London as I was too, too beautiful. It's a curse.

Actually the only time It has been mentioned to me I was in a small port town in the South of France. I was wearing a grass green kaftan style midi dress from &Other Stories and some gold metallic birkenstock sandals and the French guy we were talking to in a bar said "I dressed like a Londoner". I am not entirely sure it was a complement!

It might be because London would be the home for people in tv/media/modelling so it makes sense you get higher above average looking people?

For a certain sort of Nordic beauty sure, but again, there are many other types.

No, it was surely me? 😁

😂

Where did you go??? 😂

You know the Zones on the TfL / tube map?

They aren’t really fare prices, they are boundaries for good looks. I’m not allowed in Zone 1. Which is where visitors and tourists generally spend their time so they only see our prime specimens.

Come to Zone 3 and you will find us, queuing outside Morley’s Chicken shops in our Primark leggings and hoodies. In Zone 4 they queue in their pyjamas and pink dressing gowns.

I used to think london had a higher proportion of good looking people, but not nowadays. There are tons of very unsmiley unfit looking people in scruffy clothing wearing no colour at all. Black puffa jacket uniform.

I've never really thought about it OP but I agree.

I live in outer London now. I had an uncle in Manchester who I used to visit from time to time, and until recently a supplier who I visited.

My experience and opinion is not that of the OPs.

Nothing negative at all about Liverpudlians, my Grandpa was born in Liverpool and I love it there. It’s hard to describe without hearing their accents I could tell that John Bishop and Jodie Comer were from Liverpool, they just have the look.

@Ginmonkeyagain

As someone with French family yes & no! 😆Many French (particularly older) think our fashion sense is a bit odd, kooky, voluminous. Depends if you value that opinion or not.