After nearly 40 years (walked out of home at 17) I wouldn’t move anywhere else. Alternative would be still living in either Middleton Manchester or worse Oldham. Always depressing when I visit.
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Pretty much 90% of the content that makes up this forum 
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Not everyone lives there out of choice. Some really do have to for various reasons even though they’d rather not. I feel sorry for them. Not the ones who choose to live there & like it.
Fuck me! What a (Primrose) hill to die on! 
London is a great place to visit, and - for a while - I enjoyed living there, but living there now is increasingly only for wealthy masochists who can afford the extraordinary financial premiums, and who can live with stuff like elevated crime risks, pollution, crowding, inability to park, &c. ad naus.
Never mind the unspeakably arrogant assertions by those living there that it’s the best possible place to live and that all the rest of Britain is an inbred, backwards backwater of poverty, ignorance and deprivation…
As donk says, this forum exists chiefly for irritable middle-aged men to openly ridicule one-another’s choices and opinions - pretty much its USP in fact…
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Indeed, I’m thinking of several members of our extended family (mostly nieces in their late 20’s early 30’s) who have good jobs there but a lot about it, especially as renters, is quite challenging.
Well I’m in London and have just popped out from the hospital to Borough Market, where the food is outrageously priced but really good. The smoked salmon bagel I had was far better than it had any right to be from how it looked, and this flat white is great.
I’m just glad I don’t have a bag with me, as I would have filled it with cheese and probably bankrupted myself.
Just annoyingly full of tourists though!
Aren’t you also a tourist from St A? 
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I work there and STILL consider myself a tourist 
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I lived there for long enough, I reckon
It’s the tourism that helps places like Borough market thrive. They’d be grim without it.
Don’t get us started on the arts or infrastructure spending per head that London enjoys. “But it’s London that generates all the wealth” I hear them cry.
Levelling up my arse.
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You’re right, but you can’t blame Londoners for that, it’s just been government policy for decades. The only thing that changed it was EU money.
I’m not blaming Londoners for it.
If only we could extrapolate your experience as one person across millions…
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You say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Far from it dear boy! I’m a staunch defender of just that! If people want reacharounds-with-everything, there’s plenty of forums to choose from - only when the chips are down (e.g. Slaughterhouse) do we ever pull-together (so to speak…).
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and charity shops. You forgot charity shops.
That kind of assumes the car dependency that most of the rest of the country suffers from. Only 56% of London households even own a car.
I like not needing a car, it’s important to me. However it really hampers any choices about where to live - you’re basically limited to major conurbations.
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Our charity shops are going bust and closing down. Not even joking…
True. I eventually gave-up on it when I lived there and just hired. Still a huge PITA when F&F visited tho’…
I don’t have either of those
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