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In my experience there is very little sense of community in London. For example, I once travelled on the tube in London and on the underground in Liverpool on
by barking 12y ago
In my experience there is very little sense of community in London.
For example, I once travelled on the tube in London and on the underground in Liverpool on the same day. In Liverpool people were chatting with fellow passengers.
In London there was silence.
- bollix 12y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted. It's true. If you want community, don't live in a city. Live in a small town or village where everyone knows everyone else.
- vidarh 12y agoThere are plenty of smaller towns with a sense of community in London. It's mainly the centre that is a sterile wasteland.
- barking 12y agoI think It's because someone thought I was dragging things off topic a bit. I probably was. Having lived there it has almost exclusively negative connotations for me. I didn't live in a great area though.
- muyuu 12y agoIt happens in London as well, mostly outside of commute time. But yeah, there's no real sense of community in London, or in any big city really. Neighbours don't even know each other more often than not. There's pros and cons to this "anonymity" but it's nothing new nor exclusive to London. A lot of people actually like it this way.
- chrisseaton 12y agoSome people prefer it that way. I live in Liverpool and I find people on the underground there very nosey and intrusive.
- barking 12y agoLike parents then.Upsides and downsides. And similarly you might not realise what you've lost till it's gone. Liverpool is a warm friendly city.
- chrisseaton 12y agoYeah - but in my experience the 'warm friendliness' includes old women feeling entitled to touch my baby in her pram because in their mind we're all one big family.
- barking 12y agoHorses for courses then. I always liked old ladies fussing over my kids when they were small. The kids liked it too.
- fractalsea 12y agoAgreed. People seem to talk about more "friendly" cultures as being objectively better than less friendly ones. And by friendly they usually mean random strangers starting small talk with you more frequently. Personally, I normally find small talk tiresome and a waste of time with strangers, particularly if I get interrupted when I am daydreaming about something important to me.