Does anybody like London

[Felisbela]

London is a very busy place, and people there they never look at you, up and down. There's lots of places where you can go, you never get bored.

Are you making a point in your OP? It makes no sense.

I've lived in a lot of places in London and I love it all.

I’ve lived in the South East, North East, South East again & finally settled in the South West. London’s really a collection of villages & small towns though, isn’t it? And tourist London is different again. It’s years since I’ve been down Oxford St.

Edited to add that having just reread the OP, I’m not that keen on the idea of people looking me ‘up and down’.

I live in London, and worked there. So no, it's great. It's home. I don't get the 'looking you up and down' comment. I've never noticed that.

I lived in London from the age of 20 to 55. We left because DH wanted a big house with gates. I'd go back to London in a heartbeat.

London is a collection of villages with their own identities.
Travelling around and from the capital is great
Theatres, museums, galleries, gardens, etc.
Superb shopping
A marvellous river with its own ebb and flow or life
Cultural diversity
Having everything I could want on my doorstep
Hailing a cab
Proximity to airports
Proximity to career opportunity
Excellent, leading edge hospitals

I live in London and love it! Can't imagine living anywhere else...

I'm lucky in that my area is nice. There are bits of London that to me aren't really London at all. When you get to the suburbs and it's just rows and rows of identical houses.
But I do love it. I don't ever want to have to leave but I probably will.

There's some magic in it that doesn't exist elsewhere.

Love it! DH & I contemplate moving there in our dotage but I would only do it with ££££. I’d miss the weather where we are but I quite fancy an accessible pad off Marylebone High Street and pottering about buying £££ cheese and provisions with my shopping trolley; going to the theatre and galleries and being a spoiled favourite old lady at local pubs, cafes and restaurants. I fully acknowledge that the rose tint on my spectacles is pretty fucking strong.

I like London in theory, but every time I visit I come away thinking I love my home city (Bristol) more.

Honestly, I just wanted to respond to say what a lovely comment - "London is my passion". Love it!

I think I’m inspired by a very old boy we once saw in the food section of Fortum before they revamped it to be only bougie. He had a fedora on and a mackintosh and had a basket with milk and a loaf of bread in it and other standard bits and bobs. I must have lived somewhere like the Albany and this was his local corner shop.

Also no need to drive. I have everything I need within walking distance, including tube, bus & train stations if I want to go a bit further.

I live here and I love it. I’m not so fond of being in central London in the summer when it’s overwhelmed with slow moving herds of ill mannered tourists - but many capital cities have that problem. I do know how to zip around the back streets to get to where I want to go.

Adore it. Hope to never leave.

London is busy when you don’t know where to go. Many areas are not busy. Fair enough to not like it…

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

@EmpressaurusKitty yes it is, I love the history of all the little parts and places.

My great regret is that I was born after the old London Bridge was demolished, with the shops and houses on it; and after the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. I would love so much to have seen those.

Love it, to visit. Feel like I could go every week and still find things to surprise me. Love how easy it is to walk around, travel around and how in central London, due to number of people around, it feels safe at night. Love stumbling on a random street or alley, recognising locations from films, always having a range of food to choose from, feeling like I’m in the heart of the action.

I have lived in London. I prefer to not live there, due to cost of houses and the faster pace of life. But to visit its one of my favourite cities in Europe.

I lived out of London for the first 19 years of my life and I lived in London for the next 38 years. So, like plenty of Londoners, I do have a comparison. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Have you been to the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, @MrsSethGecko?

I recommend it if not, it’s a fascinating piece of history.

https://thebrunelmuseum.com/visiting-us/what-to-expect-from-your-visit/

So nice to read the outpouring of love for London in response to the slightly odd OP.

I love to visit visit London once a year or so, and I love living in a little village in the north too.

Also is this another of those provocative threads from an op and then they fuck off never to return? There are so many of these recently. Quite a few asking this same question about London.

Yes love it. I have briefly lived elsewhere in England & Scotland but hated it. I can’t imagine living anywhere else and don’t see myself ever moving.

I’ve lived all over London and currently near Liverpool St so it’s heaving with people all the time.

Yeah if you're a people watcher it's quite good for that 😃