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I mean, it depends on what your life is like too, as priorities are different. As I have a young child, and perhaps more children in the future, having good re
by schnitzelstoat 2y ago
I mean, it depends on what your life is like too, as priorities are different.
As I have a young child, and perhaps more children in the future, having good restaurants isn't as important as being able to afford a 3 or 4 bedroom house. And this is pretty unaffordable not just in London (which probably isn't the best place to raise children anyway) but across the entire South East.
I agree that it has excellent work opportunities though, which is partly the problem - the best jobs in the UK are all concentrated there.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt's a work camp, basically.
- foldr 2y agoNonsense. London was the city ranked third in 2024 for the number of international visitors. There is plenty to see and do besides work.
- HPsquared 2y agoYes, people come and see all the workers and their various works.
- foldr 2y agoI guess you are not being serious, but obviously, they come for the usual sorts of attractions offered by large cosmopolitan international cities. London has its flaws, but to describe it as a “work camp” is just completely divorced from reality.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt's hyperbole, but I believe it's fundamentally a place to work and earn money, perhaps gain experience. It's not a place to grow and develop humans. Places like that are net sinks of human capital and basically vacuum up people from more provincial locations, extract their economic value, and people eventually leave when they get tired of it - possibly with some cash in their pocket.
- foldr 2y agoIf you remove the emotional coloring from this, you’re just saying that most people in London work for a living, and that many of them commute from less central locations to more central ones. The same could be said of many big cities. Not everyone likes big cities or wants to raise their children in one, but your original comment was a bad take.
- HPsquared 2y agoI simply must rearrange the words: "most people live in a London for work". But yes, personal taste etc etc.
- soco 2y agoThe topic was about living there, which is the usual indicator of quality of life. Tourists do not influence directly the situation of the above family of three.
- foldr 2y agoMaybe “work camp” suggests something radically different to you than it does to me. To me, it indicates that there is nothing to do in London besides work, and that more or less everything in London is work related. Tourists visit London because there are lots of interesting things to see and do. People who live in London also get to see and do those things.