London still the greatest

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There pop up quite a few is London safe threads on here, but I just wanted to say something positive about it.

Spent the weekend there with my husband, and 5, 8 and 11 year old.

Great hotel, great show, great shops, great food, it still takes some beating!

Luckily london is a great place to hire a bike

Thank you for answering. You are right, it does look quite interesting. I was thinking about the Zurbarán exhibition that is on as well. There is so much to see, and do in London. Enjoy your Day.

I love visiting London, and would happily pay a tourist tax.

Dalston is hardly in the middle of nowhere! I’m sure there’d be lots of other options.

Only if you (and other city dwellers) are prepared to pay a tourist tax in National parks and coastal areas when you visit us.

Its a very walkable city as well

I'm so happy to see this - next summer I move back after 16 years abroad (plus one divorce!) I go back every summer and just fall in love again.

I've fallen out of love with London a bit.

It's all the new shiny blocks of flats being sold as investments to leave empty, and the increasing gentrification.

More and more creative people are being priced out, and culture is increasingly something you consume rather than actively participate in.

But that's because I enthusiastically participated in the squatting and free party culture of the 1990s, and remember what it was like then. (London was also dirtier and more dangerous then though!)

Absolutely agree.

We live semi-rurally, far from London. Years ago my daughter moved to London for an Art Foundation year at Chelsea. She had offers from various uni's and I wanted her to go anywhere but London! I'm not a lover of big cities and the thought of her being in the capital filled me with dread. Anyway, the day we moved her into halls I slipped a card under her duvet, saying how proud we were of her, and how she should make the most of her time in London and grasp all the opportunities she could, and boy did she!

She had a blast that year, and although she no longer lives or works in London, she and her husband visit often. We occasionally refect on how she cried when we left her in London and cried when we picked her up a year later. It really got under her skin, so I can see why people love it so much.

I think they are referring to Oxford St at christmas !!

Unless its stuff nicked from their own country maybe...

No but it explains the reference to Seven Sisters 😂

What a place!

It’s not free from age 60 anymore. State pension age now.

It is interesting!
Great little exhibition. One of my favourites.

The London Over 60’s oyster offers free tube, train, tram and bus travel to 60 year olds and over.

https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/free-and-discounted-travel/60-plus-oyster-photocard

I was born in London and lived there for 60 plus years until moving away a year ago.
I love my new home and location and have zero regrets about moving.
I return to London every week and agree that it is a brilliant city.

Ooh so do I, not helped by Central Tix sending me emails! There’s also the excellent Immersive Experiences like Cleopatra plus “Ramses: the Pharaoh’s Gold” and immersive art like Frameless. I’ve two plays and two immersive-type events coming up this month and am waiting for the new exhibition at the V & A which is a superb museum. Plus the David Bowie thing… And so many beautiful parks and gardens as well as architecture.

I live in a commuter town but it only takes an hour to get into central London

I live in Germany now but still have a flat in blackheath. I go about 4 times a year as I love the museums and galleries. Waiting for my 2 girls to get older so I can go more often.

Not true @OhamIreally - it's still free from 60, although some restrictions apply:

https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/free-and-discounted-travel/60-plus-oyster-photocard?intcmp=54724

I lived there for 28 years until I got divorced and found life a bit too expensive on my own. My daughter loves London, it’s her home and she has remained there, going to university there. Her dad still lives there too. I work in London because that’s where the money is, and I visit my daughter often. Compared with where I live now, the choice of what to do is overwhelming. Next weekend I’m taking DD to Chinatown for dim sum and we’re going to see Hadestown at the Lyric in Shaftesbury Avenue after. I hate the last trains at weekends, always packed, so I’m staying at the Premier Inn in Euston and getting a huge fried breakfast the next day. I might pop down to the yellow bagel shop in Shoreditch for supplies and then to Queensway because there’s an Asian shop opposite that sells better value noodles and soy sauce, plus prawn crackers to die for. Then back on the tube to the station to go home. My new town has a lot of Eastern European supermarkets which are very good, but for other world cuisine London is unbeaten.

Another fellow Angel(er) here. Love it. Love upper street and all the restaurant choices. Love walking by the canal. Love walking to shoreditch. Love walking down the road to St Pauls. Love the proximity of St Pancras International. Love the museums and galleries and shops.

London has loads to offer!! Its packed full of culture, historical architecture and home to some of the literary greats - a city I'll never get tired of!

@SixtySomething. It was - totally mesmerising!