a question for Londoners

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

if you live in the 'burbs and work in the centre do you ever invite your colleagues to your house? I have always felt it a major drawback of the sheer size of London, I feel it quite a constrainst on making new friends. I'm studying for a year and at the end of the exams I'd really like to invite some of the other students round, but it almost feels like an imposition - to ask them to come such a long way.

DH often invites his colleagues and vice versa, aand we are all spread out in different areas noth/south and central, one even in Surrey.

We live in South London and Dh works in North London. Although we're too antisocial to invite anyone over, we're quite used to travelling all over London to visit friends or relatives and I'd imagine most other people who live here do too!

Ask them, if it is too difficult for them, they can always decline politely, but don't worry you are doing something rather lovely and friendly - not imposing on them.

we don't generally

we meet in a location that's generally in the middle of all of us (or a location that's easy for all of us to get to)

we generally invite the people who live nearest us because unless it was on the weekend, we probably wouldn't schlep round the other side of London just for dinner

if they are all students though, I doubt they would be that fussed

on the whole my socialising with colleagues tends to be a drink after work (although children put a bit of a spanner in that works. although we're getting back into it again) - and nothing at all at weekends. I quite regularly cross London at the weekend to see old friends - mainly university ones - and they come to us - but they're such old established friends they don't really count ( if that makes sense).

yes, I should have said we do it at the weekends. Quite nice driving in London on a Sunday morning when there's no-one on the road.

I would think if you invited them on a weekend, they'd probably be well chuffed. Sounds like a lovely idea.