Is London the most unfriendliest of places?

I really do, it's god awful. London's an over populated concrete jungle, or the land of Mordor for my trekkie freinds; *sniff* yeah, yeah, worse than Birmingham. There's just no fucking trees or real, wide open green spaces.

 

I live just on the outskirts of London and you get a few 20 year old oi boys who'll smile at you in the street or old blokes who'll tip their hat and call you young lady, but everyone else seems really closed off and hostile. Mind you, what can you expect in a town where muggings are normal, its common just to not make eye contact.

 

i dont mean to be rude but have ou actually ever been to london?!?! its one of the greenest cities int he world...

Hampstead heath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead_heath
Green park
Hyde Park
Finsbury Park
St James' Park
Lincolns inn fields

just to name a few of the parks dotted around in the CENTRE of london

 

Bollocks.

I lived outside in Ruilsip and worked in central London in the mid-nineties. Travelling back on the Metropolitan line made my soul weep and heart sink to see mile after mile, and as far as the horizon pitched roofs of endless housing estates. What you have listed there are friggin' parks, yeah some are nice and are really little oasis's of peace. What I'm driving at is it should be the other way around, in that housing estates should be surrounded by green fields, woods, hills or the sea!!!!!

London is an absolutely awful place which, with all sincerity that place made me depressed for quite a long time. I left quite a well paid job with good career prospects just to get away from that hell of a place.

That's nothing compared to the rude, arrogant and self absorded atittude a lot of Londoners seem to have.

Remember this is just my opinion and experience.

 

sounds like LA.

 

Then that's one place I'm not itching to see soon either.

 

it's a pit.

 

Sums up London too!

 

shallow materialistic snots smug to be living under a filthy polluted sky surrounded by millions of people who hate each other and revel in how supposedly cool they are?

 

Yep, London in a nutshell. Except we mostly got rid of the smog.. it no longer actually KILLS people with tuberculosis and pneumonia.
It just turns the population into self-centred, drunken, yobbish arseholes. I mean, I've lived in Birmingham and I thought that was bad. Then I went to London, and boy was I wrong!
what is it about humans that makes them clump together to ruin the land? shame that this country's too small to really get away from people..

 

hm, ive always had good experiences with london. met and got chatting to random people who have all been lovely. had nice comments off people in tube stations. then one day i was on the tube and i dropped a load of beads from a broken bracelet and people were chasing them down the aisle and picking them up for me.

 

you must be really really hot. that doesn't happen for the less beautiful.

 

they try to call it a marine layer in lala land. temperature inversion and all that. denver's a wonderful place, but the traffic is heavy and air quality is similar to LA's, due to yet another temperature inversion.

 

You people have obviously never visited Rotterdam.

 

Yeah, I've generally had a good experience in London, except for people who're working, but can you blame them?

 

must be our welsh charm eh luke

 

rotterdam has an amazing market!!

 

I agree w/ Miss KC. The Brits are dick smacks.

 

is that a sweaty dick smack or a freshly showered and and powdery dry dick smack?

 

Oh man. My belly hurts from reading that!