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Issue is that really all in UK is in London, no offence to other towns, simply: museums, clubs, meetups, tech conferences, startups, theatre shows, multicultura

Issue is that really all in UK is in London, no offence to other towns, simply: museums, clubs, meetups, tech conferences, startups, theatre shows, multicultural vibe, amount of things you can do ... (please ignore pandemic and current lock-down state) I have been in Manchester for a few days, and except for my friends and few exceptionally good food & club places town is simply unsatisfying (I do not know what word to use to describe maybe day time boring). For me I would rather take a StarLink and move to Scottish mountains ... Don't get me wrong, I do not hate rest of UK, there are different towns, and they are quite different, some are nice and pretty, other look like post-communistic havoc...

Nursie 6y ago
Other towns have museums, some great ones. Only a minority of people give a stuff about conferences or meetups. "Startups" are moot when we're talking about the possibility of work diversifying away from London. Yes, there's a lot to do there. The tradeoff is poor air quality, limited access to the natural world, bad smells, overcrowding, huge living expense. You grow out of clubs. These days I like a pub I can sit down in. And most Londoners that I know stopped doing all the immense number of things at some point. Plus I can get to central London pretty quickly on the train if I want to. Usually I don't though.