London Baby!!!

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When I was a kid I wanted to live in London but the more I went there the more I hated the place.

For me the perfect place to live would be somewhere quiet away from other people. Noise, cars, pollution etc is everything I hate. I have'nt even mentioned the cattle market you call the tube

blues

Well I've never heard Croydon described as "quite a nice place" before! It really is pretty awful and I live close enough to know it well!

zarf2007

blues wrote: »

Well I've never heard Croydon described as "quite a nice place" before! It really is pretty awful and I live close enough to know it well!

its a poor mans brixton without the transport links and double the crime...

balletshoes

Soleil_lune wrote: »

The whole of Scotland is amazing imo,
and much of it is very beautiful.

bits of Scotland are like bits of every other country - there are some real shi*holes of places/areas in Scotland.

gunsandbanjos

balletshoes wrote: »

bits of Scotland are like bits of every other country - there are some real shi*holes of places/areas in Scotland.

So true! There are some very deprived, scary places hiding in our beautiful country.

I'm Edinburgh born and bred and don't think I'll ever live anywhere else. I've been to London a few times and really liked it but Edinburgh is home to me.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

blues wrote: »

Well I've never heard Croydon described as "quite a nice place" before! It really is pretty awful and I live close enough to know it well!

zarf2007 wrote: »

its a poor mans brixton without the transport links and double the crime...

I'll think of the lack of transport links when I wait a whole four minutes for a bus, nine minutes for trains into central London or the coast, from three rail stations within a mile.

Not quite certain what the Brixton comment means. If it's remarking upon the borough being populated by many different people from all over the world, that's one of its strengths - kids here grow up learning to accept people for who they are, not what it says on a passport or monitoring form. There certainly aren't cases of kids from alternative lifestyles being beaten up.

Croydon isn't just the small cluster of about five chain bars in the centre - there are independent pubs, restaurants offering everything from the ubiquitous fried chicken to fine dining, there's a lively music scene, there's farmland, ancient bluebell woods, parks, the downs, libraries, large and small theatres, plenty of shops (not my thing but, hey ho, some people like having that available) and architecture ranging from the 10th century, all the way through brutalism to modern styles.

My last flat overlooked woodland to the west, but to the south and east, I mostly saw fields, trees, a vast expanse of usually blue sky and, to the north east, I could see all the way over to the Rother Estuary on the horizon.

I now live near the restaurant end. Looking out of my bedroom window, I see blue sky and can just hear a few cars driving along, together with the breeze blowing through the trees and a very high plane. It's very quiet.


Mind you, I'm off out to play a festival in a bit. I don't think many of us got the memo about having to get a degree in music or attend stage school. Guess we were too busy being musicians to notice we aren't supposed to be able to do that.

FatVonD

zarf2007 wrote: »

its a poor mans brixton without the transport links and double the crime...

Spoken by somebody who's clearly never ventured further than the Whitgift centre!

Lily-Rose_3

Wow, people getting uppity about someone saying that somewhere is very beautiful. That's a new one on me. PMSL. :rotfl: You can't even be complimentary on here without someone pulling you up on it.

And this slagging off a place and running it into the ground like people are doing with Croydon! You seriously can't comment unless you have lived there yourself! And lack of transport links??? Seriously! Maybe a lack of TUBES, but not a lack of transport links. Why do people insist on going on about stuff they know nothing about? There are so many people who b1tch about Birmingham and Wolverhampton and Manchester and Liverpool etc, and they probably couldn't point it out on a map!

What's more, if you don't like a place, then you don't have to go!

Person_one

This thread's gone a bit weird...

GlasweJen

Soleil_lune wrote: »

The whole of Scotland is amazing imo, and much of it is very beautiful.

There are parts of Glasgow that are amazingly scary - I've worked in Shettleston, Castlemilk, Dalmarnock and Easterhouse, even as a born and bred weegie I wouldn't walk across Glasgow green alone at night, the west end is just as bad. My mum is more comfortable with us travelling abroad than going out in town for a night. My brother was glassed on a bus at 4pm on a Sunday by buckfast jakies - a situation so common the driver didn't even blink just went straight to the royal while a wee woman held my brothers skin to his skull.

Oh yeah you can chat to strangers on a bus but god help you if you look at someone the wrong way!