I have been here for last 6 months, London is great, the rest of the country is boring and there aren't too many jobs, but still there are lovely for a week end away. Stay in London and you will be ok, there are lots of things to do and the city buzz 24/7. Like all big cities there are many things not going right but London is unique. Avoid to stay in Brixton, Hackney or Stonebridge. Have fun and may see u around
You mean you've never seen 'Deliverance'? "Squeel like a pigie"? Your lots inbreeding up in them hills is almost as famous as ours!
I will never buy a house there, although Brixton is a good place for live-music. Stonebridge and Hackney are under complete redevelopment to make the areas more attractive.
it'll be a while before i go there January 2006 is when i am going i am trying to arrange for an internship in London my last semester of college (university)
Like I said, we h'aint got no hills. I used to live in Victoria Park in Hackney and went to College there for a little while and love the place and people. Like most working class communities in this country, the idea of sorting out inner city problems is to re-develop the area, in otherwise 'ethnicly cleanse' the local population by building housing that nobody can afford. Very sad state of affairs....but that's England!
Avoid Brixton and the whole of East london. nasty areas. You're better off in the Notting Hill/Shepherds Bush/Ealing area s'where I grew up!
Ok, ok. Northfields isn't THAT posh. My dad's original notting hill, from before it became the rich man's summer palace it is now, full of Italians and Yanks who've all come to check it out in case they run into Hugh Grant. What's all that about anyway? He's supposed to be your average bloke but he's got a plum property right in the middle of one of the richest areas in london! They really should have made a film called Slough instead. My dad was telling me how his parents sold their house because they were worried about getting bombed during the war. Had they hung onto it, my dad would be a much richer man now. But yeah, I grew up off Northfields Avenue and only know the Notting Hill/Shepherds Bush area from going to watch the Rs week in week out. In fact I've been to see them far more since living away from London than when I was IN london. I was 10 when we moved away though.
Yeah, I sort of know where it is, haven't been out that way much before though. Sort of near Greenford isn't it? or Hanger Lane?
maybe I should stop saying things like that over the internet then, because my face is quite happy and positive, but I guess not being able to see it, it could be taken quite badly......
