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Do you actually live in London?
by d0 13y ago
Do you actually live in London?
- shocks 13y agoWhat does it matter?
- Pacabel 13y agoGood and accurate judgment usually only comes after years of direct and relevant experience.
- zacinbusiness 13y agoI never said that London is the perfect place, or that it's better than anywhere else. I said it's my favorite place. As in, of the places I've been I prefer London the most. Why? The art. The history. The theatre. The culture, The food. (Like £2 curry in Camden Town? You can't beat it) Is it expensive? Sure it is. Are there problems? Of course there are. But I enjoy my time there.
- benjohnson 13y agoUsually the drawbacks of any locality would only be apparent if you lived and worked there. For example: visiting Disneyland for a day versus woking at Disneyland for a year.
- corin_ 13y agoCan probably be said about most places, but a common joke is that true Londoners both think London the best place in the world, and also the worst. (Personally I spend 1-3 days a week in London, have done for years, absolutely love it but wouldn't want to live there.)
- toomuchtodo 13y ago> (Personally I spend 1-3 days a week in London, have done for years, absolutely love it but wouldn't want to live there.) London and Vegas share that view in my mind. I love Vegas and London, but want to spend no more than 72 hours in each place at a time.
- corin_ 13y agoFor similar reasons? I've never been to Vegas (on purpose, I refuse to go to CES each year, I wouldn't do well stuck in casinos day after day!) but imagine it quite different to London. And actually I don't mind spending more than 3 days in London at a time, although mostly I'll go one day at a time, I do have to stay there a few times a year for up to a week, and it's not too much time that I mind, I just like knowing that at some point I can go home to somewhere that isn't London.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDifferent reasons. Vegas because of its culture, London because of its cost and density of people.
- d0 13y agoSame here. Unfortunately I've been living here for over three decades now...
- snyk00 13y agoThat's true for most places: "Tourist: oh, this is such a great place to live in!"; "Person actually living there: not really". When you live (read years, not just a few months) there are many small things that you didn't think about or didn't have to deal with if you only lived there for a short span of time.
- zacinbusiness 13y agoNot yet. But my wife and I spend a month there each year since 2010. Will be heading back in late May of this year.