Just returned from a week’s trip to London and I can confidently report that it is not, in fact, horrible. |
I miss London! Tell me something nice you did or just some observation that you appreciated. Last time I was there I got off the plane from Gatwick at Clapham Junction and got the bus to Brixton so I could just enjoy seeing people out in the street and passing Clapham Common. It was early so I saw lots of kids of all colours and sizes in their myriad of uniforms heading to school. They all looked adorable. |
Give actual examples. Have the 6yos been stabbed to death? Have the college students been shot with one being paralyzed? Did they get stalked and harassed while working a Kosher cart by a former state dept official who gleefully says that more Jewish kids should've been killed? Try being Palestinian. PERIOD. |
Ignoring the post above...to the Jewish person who posted...I am sorry you have experienced anti semitism. As an outisider it looks like part of it (the anti semitism) is so clever and underhanded and insidious (including pat denials that anti semitism is a problem or statements that well you don't have it as bad of us stop being victims!) that it can be easily denied as if we can't really see what is going on, but there are a lot of us who see it and hate it. |
Aggressive anti-semitism is really becoming a growing problem in London. The British papers report on it. Maybe if Hamas hadn't gone on a genocide blitz last October and spent the billions and billions building tunnels devoted to terrorism instead of helping their own people or using Palestinians as human shields, Gaza wouldn't be in this mess today, eh? I'll never forget how the first mass protests started even before the dust had settled on October 7. Which tells you everything you need to know. |
I visited London a year ago and LOVED every second of it. Great food everywhere!! Even at Sainsbury's found good cheap take-out meals. Tons of ethnic restaurants, great bakeries, incredible food, far cheaper than in DC. I went for the museums and theater, which are spectacular. There is no better English language theater in the world. And the museums, well, if you can't find something you love in London's museums, hmmmm..... The weather is meh, so maybe that's what's getting you down, OP? I stayed with a friend who lives in a chic part of London, very family-friendly, close to a park, clean, lovely. We walked everywhere, took tube at all hours, felt safe. Wonderful shopping everywhere. I felt completely at home in London. I don't live there, and my friend did complain about having to purchase new appliances for her rental apartment (which was very nice, BTW), but it's hardly the hellhole OP is describing. It's like big cities anywhere, problems, crime, etc., but loads of advantages. I happen to love the culture in London, so for me, London is fabulous. I can't wait to go back and visit again later this year!! |
Just like Chicago and Minneapolis. But not as cold. It's damp in London, but you can fly to the Caribbean on short order. Grow up, OP. What a whiner. |
How does it compare to New York? |
+1 PP is someone who thinks a house built a century ago is "old" and one built 200 years ago is "trash." Don't bother trying to convince this wealthy troglodyte. PP, go back to your gilded 1980s palace. |
FFS I work with some Oxbridge grads, and they are sharper than most of us from the US's "elite" schools. They are not pointy-headed nerds, nor are they workaholics, but they are completely professional and very hard working. I admire their erudition and broad-minded thinking. They are excellent colleagues. |
It’s also great to have NHS if you’re polder and not rich. Ofc NHS isn’t perfect but I know many older UMC people who are very happy with it. |
The lack of knowledge is astounding. What makes you believe that London developed earlier than other major continental cities? This is patently false. Prague is an example of that. Vienna would be an example of that too had they not modernized their housing stock in the mid 1800s to allow for taller ceilings, more daylight, broader streets and other comforts (as did Paris). London just didn’t think it was a priority. I love London but Prague has older and better quality housing stock. |
Lived there 2007-2013 and can confirm OP’s post. We lived in Holland Park in a “fancy” flat and one day the flat above us had flooding which poured down into our foyer straight through the light fixture.
London is fun to visit but DC is so much better in terms of living standards. And that’s saying nothing of the glorious climate we have in DC! |
From London one can easily go to one of the Canary islands - very short flight. |
It's because housing and the infrastructure in London is *a lot* older than in DC. |