London, UK - (Rate It)

[William Huggins]

London fucking sucks

One step below paris which is straight out of district 9

You just don't know where to party.......

But you're indeed correct, London does suck...... pretty big gay community..........if sucking interested you......

 

[Cole train]

You just don't know where to party.......

But you're indeed correct, London does suck...... pretty big gay community..........if sucking interested you......

Show me the ways of homosexuality master

 

[William Huggins]

Show me the ways of homosexuality master

You've got to change your name to "Soho Boy" then you can be my sidekick on Old Compton St, hope you like popper's and Mandy.......

 

[Streeter]

Of famous European cities it was underwhelming. It's no Paris Rome or Barcelona for certain.

 

[Noveltymortar]

I was born there and miss the London that existed in the 70's. The modern version I have no use for. Haven't been in a couple of decades though.

 

[b-hop]

Not many white people..

 

[BangBang]

Lived there for approx 10 years 1995-2004
and spent the last 12 months living there.

Basically it's got everything you could possibly want but you pay for that through the cost of living.

I lived in Camden, in a 1 bed apartment which was fairly decent but far from luxurious and cost me £1700/month in rent! I'm glad I moved out put it that way. Standard of living is better elsewhere.

A great city if you have money.

 

[Midget Boxer]

Vienna better

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Good for a day or 2 , no interest in living there.

North of England is far more fun imo.

they all got funny voices tho

 

[Jose Beehive]

they all got funny voices tho

Prefer it to unidentifiable generically southern "Fackin ell eez a right cant" people or the "Good heavens darling let's pop round for a barth" who could be from anywhere, I know a scouser when I meat a scouser, I meat a Southern chap and they could be from Southampton, Portsmouth, London, Kent, Essex etc etc. Shite

 

[cmw43]

For visiting its not exactly the kind of place you just hang around it, too much bustle and a lot of it not very picturesque but it does have plenty of sites to see and there actually in quite a compact area with a better underground than most big cities in terms of being able to get to places fast with lots of crossing lines.

To just hang around and relax your probably getting off going to one of the more middle class sub centre towns its enveloped liked Greenwich or Richmond.

In London's defence, it's the greenest major city in Europe.

They've got absolutely tonnes of parks and gardens, I remember I went down one year for a tour of all the big private gardens which were opening up for one day.

The capital contains 35,000 acres of public parks, woodlands and gardens, which means that 40% of its surface area is made up of publicly accessible green space.

In comparison, Berlin, the next major city green space provider in Europe, has just 14.4% of green surface area.

 

[cmw43]

I've got a lot of friends who live there and have been a frequent visitor to the last 20 years all over the city and the various suburbs and I love visiting but couldn't live there.

Some of my best partying memories are from that city visiting friends throughout my 20s, going to out to pubs and clubs and then on to house parties, meeting all kinds of people from all over the world.

Visited pretty much every museum, been to festivals and concerts (highlights were Deftones, Guns N Roses, the Strokes, Motley Crue), went to UFC 95 at the O2 Arena and a couple of Cage Rage's, done all the shopping and tourist stuff too.

I remember one Sherdogger went down recently but I seem to remember they just went to the cinema and Nando's.

 

[fingercuffs]

I have spent time in Sheffield and North Hampton. Visited the museums in London which was ok.
When I was there the pound was almost double the dollar. Hell riding on the metro someone was reading a book titled “How to exploit the American dollar”. So I didn’t enjoy prices for beer and food. It is kind of cool you can ask for a fried egg on anything though.

 

[ralphc1]

It's like most old cities where most of it existed before any major planning was done so they appear to have been designed by drunks. Much of the city is a chaotic hodgepodge of streets. Like most cites on rivers, the streets follow the curves of the river and the associated streams and marshlands. They had a chance to make changes after the great fire of 1666 but didn't take the opportunity. WWII provided more chances for improvements and some were made. Infrastructure had to be installed with buildings in place. Old cities slowly replace the old with the new but they are pretty much stuck with the chaotic street layouts.

 

[fingercuffs]

It's like most old cities where most of it existed before any major planning was done so they appear to have been designed by drunks. Much of the city is a chaotic hodgepodge of streets. Like most cites on rivers, the streets follow the curves of the river and the associated streams and marshlands. They had a chance to make changes after the great fire of 1666 but didn't take the opportunity. WWII provided more chances for improvements and some were made. Infrastructure had to be installed with buildings in place. Old cities slowly replace the old with the new but they are pretty much stuck with the chaotic street layouts.

Ever been to Milton Keynes? Grid system somewhat like NYC. But horrid. No character, it reminds me of lego.

 

[I Am Legion]

One of my favorites. Saw the NY Giants play the Rams in Tottenham. We stayed the week. Had great time in the pubs, at the game. Saw all the sights which have some cool history. Weather wasn't great. Girls were very easy and very fun. We stayed in Covenant Gardens which was really nice. Hit some fun pubs-Red Lion, The Queens Head, The Harp, The Silver Cross, The Coach and Horses. We spent two days just hitting all the famous spots. We also did a day bar hopping in Picadilly Circus. That's good if you want some slags from bachelorette parties. I ended up spending the night with a lovely Indian woman with a sick British accent. That helped me set my 1 night record...so hot. We took "The Tube" and stayed at her "flat". Food is below average for a large city, but we found great places.

 

[TXstriker]

Am I not supposed to call it that?

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

It's ok, but it's got nothing on Clapham.

Has the GOAT train station.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

In London's defence, it's the greenest major city in Europe.

They've got absolutely tonnes of parks and gardens, I remember I went down one year for a tour of all the big private gardens which were opening up for one day.

The capital contains 35,000 acres of public parks, woodlands and gardens, which means that 40% of its surface area is made up of publicly accessible green space.

In comparison, Berlin, the next major city green space provider in Europe, has just 14.4% of green surface area.

Yeah if I was spending my time walking around London then besides the Embankment it would be though the parks, good route from the houses of Paliment to the museums in South Kennington especially though St James/Greem/Hyde parks.

London is a bit strange in that further out you have the kind of dull urban sprall you expect with most big cites but you get inside that and then you actually have places like Greenwich and Richmond that have a lot of green space around then and almost feel like their still separate towns rather than just becoming parts of a larger city.

If I was going to just casually relax a bit walking the streets those are the kind of places I'd go not the centre.

 

[BobsyaUncle]

Worked there for three years about a decade ago, loved it. I lived on the outskirts though, not sure I'd have enjoyed it as much if I was permanently based in the built up areas.