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.

Love London!

And I don't even live in UK or Ireland.

But how many shows do you get to choose from, and is the staging of touring productions as good...not in my experience.
I can decide at 10 am I want to go and pay under £25 for a brilliant show that day. It's the choice and impulse you don't get elsewhere.

Well yes.....but for many average families that's not a ordinary day activity.
Most Londoners aren't popping to the theatre that regularly - they are just doing normal things like going to Tesco, sending the kids to Scouts and walking the dog in the nearest park.

It's not just theatre though, is it? It's the huge choice of everything. I could go to see a different band every night. Eat at a different restaurant. Hundreds of museums, parks, special events. Last weekend we went to Hampton Court Flower Festival.
It's not for everyone, but I still love the buzz of it. In the summer, just walking around the West End feels like being on holiday.

I was referring to every day mundane boring life though.... most people who live in London aren't regularly going to restaurants or seeing bands.
They go to work. Kids go to school. They go to Tesco.

So for shopping go to Marylebone High street not Oxford Street

Museums: John Soane, Foundling Museum,Horniman, Museum of London in Docklands, Eltham Palace, Bishops Palace in Fulham - can’t remember name.

Take a commuter boat on the river not a commercial tourist boat.

Theatres, look at local theatres, eg Stratford Royal do a brilliant pantomime, as does the Hackney Empire, the theatre at Richmond does fabulous productions if you don’t have vertigo. Chocolate Factory, Donmar, Tricycle.

Galleries : Dulwich picture Gallery has interesting shows.Many of the commercial galleries put on exhibitions, the Gallery in Kensington Gardens whose name escapes me…..

Are we talking just children? Although there are kids shows to and the wide variety of kids activities. Where else can a group have sleepovers on the Belfast, cutty Sark, Golden hinde and the museums for example?

I love going to London but feel, at early 60s I'm not fit for it any more. Everywhere you go there are massive crowds of people and the tube is absolutely crammed. I end up absolutely exhausted and vow we won't go back again....... until the next time 😆

People love london to visit, but not to live, so much, so many over crowded streets , jam packed, and public transport is so unreliable and over crowded now. We had to visit Acton the other day and were laughing in shock at how depressing it was. Didn’t see anybody not wearing black. Dystopian nightmare.

Plenty of other towns and cities do similar events.
I believe the Space Museum in Leicester does sleepovers.
London isn't the only place with museums 😂
Even adults though - average ordinary Londoners aren't popping to the theatre/music gigs/museum special events/whatever on a regular basis.
They don't have the time or money to do it.
My original comment on this thread was in reference to those who don't live in Zone 1 (or a few parts of Zone 2).
Living in actual central London is very different to living in Zone 3 and beyond - which is not really that different to living in Anytown UK.
Which was my original point.

Well, we're fairly average and we do those things on a regular basis. I get free travel (over 60) which makes a difference.
This weekend we have a tour of our shiny new local theatre and the Doobie Brothers at the O2.