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> My girlfriend wants to go back but that's just because "London is the best place in the world" Exactly. My flatmate says this shit as well. He's someone who
by oneloop 10y ago
> My girlfriend wants to go back but that's just because "London is the best place in the world"
Exactly. My flatmate says this shit as well. He's someone who commutes 1.5hrs times two each day, and "London is the best place in the world". He doesn't do anything else with his life, because between a 9-5 and 3 hours of tube, the only thing you have energy for is watching tv.
I have come to the conclusion that people who say "London is the best place in the world" are small minded people disguising as worldly. My flatmate for example never lived anywhere else, but he knows London is "the best".
- stuxnet79 10y agoThis is absolutely crazy to me. It takes 1.5 hours to commute from one side of London to another or does he live outside the city limits? How can you live INSIDE a city and endure such commute times.
- Symbiote 10y agoIt would be possible, for example living on the outskirts and working in a different outskirts. I guessed a possible route, and stuck it in TfL's Journeyplanner: Uxbridge to West Croydon, takes 1½ hours now (22:00), a bit faster during the day, but add on some walking. (Driving is 70 minutes at night, probably closer to 1½ hours in the day.) A journey like this would be uncommon, I doubt it's worthwhile for many people. And people living in the 90% of the city that's less-distant than either Uxbridge or Croydon will laugh, and say those places aren't "proper" London anyway.