People who have moved to the country from London

[CountessDracula]

What exactly is so much cheaper about living in the country to justify the massive salary cut you have to take when you move?

Food, clothes, schools etc the same price surely. Plus masses of petrol so that is more. If you are moving to an area where the house prices are not dissimilar to London, I can't see where you make the saving.

"the people are so dull and white"

blimey that's a bit strong for a Friday night...

cod sorry you are wrong, dh grew up in London! That's the problem he's never lived ith the cuntry other than when at boarding school so has this idealised view of it

The career thing is not so simple. He doesn't want partnership in the city firm he works for - too much crap and hard work go with it and we don't need the money so why bother (OK would be nice if he earned £300k a year but tbh we aren't that breadheaded). However, staying and NOT being a partner is too much like stagnation/timeserving for him. So I think he thinks country partnership would be chiller and more "him" and I tend to agree

where do you live, mp?

I love your point about gay men marrying one's daughters.

I will say this though
you can't get decent sushi outsie of London
not the be all and end all though is it?
bit of raw fish and rice

id love to love on lodnon if i w ere gay
tremendousl rich
a dn or with no kids

otherwise forget it

And although I live in Zone 2, I rarely leave the house without running into people I know.

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London would suck without a decent amount of cash, I agree with cod about that. It's all so expensive. The tube is mind-bogglingly, outrageously, expensive.

cd i see
wlel maybe he looks at his parents now and at pphs and htinks it all gymkhanas and pimms

you lopt adn your FUCKING CAFES*

Do not mention bagels. You cannot get decent bagels in this godforsaken country. I may start weeping.

well I don;t drink coffee
I have been known to make my own croissant
but you're right about the bagels
Brick Lane! [sigh]

I totally agree cod

We moved out due to not being rich enough and not being gay (therefore wanting to breed which is not v. fun in a one-bed flat in sarf London)

But oh, yes, I go to a local French deli and get service in French, and a reasonable croissant. Apostrophe has good ones, and my local Italian cafe has very good ones.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

whya re you all noncign around in cafes allt he time ffs?
have oyu nothign to do>
no harvest to bring in?

lol

BRICK LANE BAGELS SUCK.

WANKY BAGELS

Do you have to leave London to get the change in career focus your dh is looking for cd?

At least they're not Toronto bagels, or those horrible theoretically American bagels they sell in Sainsbury's, but still. They suck.

AND I have to pay about 2 QUID for a fucking MANGO!

I used to buy a box of 12 for 50p late on Wednesday night in West Ham...

Cod, I think the hole in the middle is a bit small for that. Although I'm sure some people have used them for that.

the thing about living in London.....
when you live there you don't go out because you are working all the bloody time
and you spend so much on housing that you can't afford to eat in these fabled restaurants/spend £8 on a bloody cocktail/£10 for a cinema ticket etc
the only people who really do all that are tourists and day trippers

(I can buy half a pig for a fiver though.)

Cod, doesn't your hubby get tired of being "that Canadian man" all the time? (Or are you somewhere slightly more international than that?)

grrr