London is HORRIBLE

[Anonymous]

Not being able to find good food in London is a special talent in itself, but bonus comedy points for thinking food scene is better in DC/ DMV.

[Anonymous]

Could I be wrong ? I thought folks ventured to London for the food and dental care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few other things from living there that also suck OP

Train Strikes
NHS doctors, actually the whole NHS system
The fact that they use sort codes instead of Venmo
Their version of Pizza and Mexican Salsa is disgusting
The way they say Nike, Amazon, and Pasta is fu**ing grating

Find the Irish in the city, they are so fun and love Americans!

+1,000
Their entire speech affect is so pretentious and whiny.

Have you heard the way they pronounce "taco". Makes me cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few other things from living there that also suck OP

Train Strikes
NHS doctors, actually the whole NHS system
The fact that they use sort codes instead of Venmo
Their version of Pizza and Mexican Salsa is disgusting
The way they say Nike, Amazon, and Pasta is fu**ing grating

Find the Irish in the city, they are so fun and love Americans!

+1,000
Their entire speech affect is so pretentious and whiny.

These two PPs are racist. You do not criticize another country's speech patterns. American accents are known in other parts of the English speaking world as inelegant. Are you offended when this is pointed out to you? Then stop criticizing other people's speech.

? You mean xenophobic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Venmo only exists because the US banking system is so primitive that you can’t just instantly transfer money from one account to another like you can in every other country in the world.

Which makes those users more susceptible to the whims of dictators to freeze bank accounts of people with whom they disagree politically. See: Truckers in Canada, Trudeau.

I think you will have a dictator in the US long before we have one in the UK. And Venmo won’t save you!

Also, being able to transfer money between accounts has nothing to do with being able to freeze them. The US can freeze bank accounts more easily than the UK. In short, you have no idea what you’re talking about. I suggest that you educate yourself further before participating in such conversations.

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Boom

+1 There is some serious stupid coming out on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few other things from living there that also suck OP

Train Strikes
NHS doctors, actually the whole NHS system
The fact that they use sort codes instead of Venmo
Their version of Pizza and Mexican Salsa is disgusting
The way they say Nike, Amazon, and Pasta is fu**ing grating

Find the Irish in the city, they are so fun and love Americans!

+1,000
Their entire speech affect is so pretentious and whiny.

These two PPs are racist. You do not criticize another country's speech patterns. American accents are known in other parts of the English speaking world as inelegant. Are you offended when this is pointed out to you? Then stop criticizing other people's speech.

? You mean xenophobic?

And Australian accents are elegant? We're aware that the British are snobs about their accents. And much else. Southerners in the US speak like you lot did four hundred years ago, so there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it you did not previously travel to London before you moved there? It's been going down hill since before Brexit.

No

Never traveled to London before living here

We are here until q3 2025 😭

I can empathize! I lived there for less than a year of a supposedly permanent move. I HATED it. The winters are the worst too! So dark at 4pm and always overcast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it you did not previously travel to London before you moved there? It's been going down hill since before Brexit.

No

Never traveled to London before living here

We are here until q3 2025 😭

I can empathize! I lived there for less than a year of a supposedly permanent move. I HATED it. The winters are the worst too! So dark at 4pm and always overcast.

Like much of the northern US in winter...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few other things from living there that also suck OP

Train Strikes
NHS doctors, actually the whole NHS system
The fact that they use sort codes instead of Venmo
Their version of Pizza and Mexican Salsa is disgusting
The way they say Nike, Amazon, and Pasta is fu**ing grating

Find the Irish in the city, they are so fun and love Americans!

+1,000
Their entire speech affect is so pretentious and whiny.

These two PPs are racist. You do not criticize another country's speech patterns. American accents are known in other parts of the English speaking world as inelegant. Are you offended when this is pointed out to you? Then stop criticizing other people's speech.

Wtf it isn’t racist to call out Brit’s for pronouncing a word incorrectly. It’s just plain ignorant to refer to a company name incorrectly. Both Nike and Amazon have investor relations calls. And they call their companies NIK-EY and AMAZ-ON. Not “Nyke” and “Ama-zin” ! Nike was coined from the Greek Mythology of Nike (which you Do know how to say correctly right?!) And Amazon was coined from the friggen rain forest in South America, the Amazon (and again you know how to say this one right?!)

And pasta is from Italy where they call it pah-sta.

And filet is from France where they call it Fil-ay. Not Fill-it.

The Brit’s may seem elegant but they are actually uptight dumbasses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it you did not previously travel to London before you moved there? It's been going down hill since before Brexit.

No

Never traveled to London before living here

We are here until q3 2025 😭

I can empathize! I lived there for less than a year of a supposedly permanent move. I HATED it. The winters are the worst too! So dark at 4pm and always overcast.

Like much of the northern US in winter...

London is farther North than most of the Northern US in winter. Certainly farther north than us here in DC. So, yes, it's darker there in winter. Just a fact, really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it you did not previously travel to London before you moved there? It's been going down hill since before Brexit.

No

Never traveled to London before living here

We are here until q3 2025 😭

I can empathize! I lived there for less than a year of a supposedly permanent move. I HATED it. The winters are the worst too! So dark at 4pm and always overcast.

Like much of the northern US in winter...

No way. No comparison. Boston might get snow. It might have snow. But there are also blue skies during winter. The sun does not shine in England between October and March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take it you did not previously travel to London before you moved there? It's been going down hill since before Brexit.

No

Never traveled to London before living here

We are here until q3 2025 😭

I can empathize! I lived there for less than a year of a supposedly permanent move. I HATED it. The winters are the worst too! So dark at 4pm and always overcast.

Like much of the northern US in winter...

London is farther North than most of the Northern US in winter. Certainly farther north than us here in DC. So, yes, it's darker there in winter. Just a fact, really.

I have a house in Massachusetts. Sunset today is at 5:27. In London it is at 5:36. In December/January both are at around 4:15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am playing the world’s shortest song on the world’s smallest violin for you.

+1 The food in London is great now--particularly if you look at Asian and Middle eastern cuisines. High quality theatre is super cheap compared to NY or even DC, and many spectacular museums are free (just ignore the dubious provenance of many of the most renowned artifacts). Also, I beg to differ about the overrated parks. They are in fact terrific. But if you prefer Takoma Park to Hyde Park, Regent's Park and Kensington Gardens, then there's not much I can say to you.

No! Britain needs to return the Elgin Marbles NOW.

[Anonymous]

The windows and insulation issues are well known. That's why everyone flees to Greece in the winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never want to hear people say how great London is or London is better than dc.

1. Housing is atrocious. We are living in a roughly 2 million pound flat in Mayfair and the plumbing is awful, the insulation/windows are awful and we are always cold (and we are used to Montana cold but homes in London are cold whereas in the us homes stay warm). Our colleagues here have homes anywhere between 500k to 6 million pounds here in various neighborhoods and they are all dumpy

2. The parks are overrated

3. People are mean

4. The tube and trains are mindblowingly expensive

5. Service is poor

6. British “professionals” have horrible work ethic without the “la dolce vita” attitude of Italians/southern euros. It’s the worst of both worlds - uptight, high expectations yet also poor work ethic/quality.

7. Food is awful

8. Social life is way too alcohol centric

There is literally nothing redeeming about this place. I’d rather live in Dallas and I think the south is 🤮 !

dc is 100x better than London

OP we lived in an even more expensive area than Mayfair (yes, true). And I really think you are very very sadly misguided. What a wasted opportunity on you