Dear London
Over the past two and a half years I've had many a reason to be frustrated by you - the crowds, the financial (and metaphorical!) diarrhoea I seem to frequently catch off the dirty Thames water, the shoebox of a house I'm forced to live in - but really, I have nothing but eternal gratitude to you for the way you've changed my life.

The shit-scared and severely depressed 22-year-old who pitched up in Stoke Newington back then, just having escaped an appalling and abusive 5 year relationship is someone I barely recognise now. I've got a better job than I ever thought someone as under-qualified as I am could hope for, I've almost cut out the class As and drinking till comatose (and when I do those things now, I'm actually enjoying myself!), and, most importantly, I've met some of the most incredible, lovely people ever here. To the Harringay massive (who may well be geeky enough to be reading this): I don't deserve friends as amazing as you :-)

So, London, when I walk down the river Lea on a Saturday morning and see the sun coming up over Walthamstow marshes, when we crash out of the pub and down Green Lanes at 3 am, when we spend the whole of a summer Sunday in Finsbury Park just talking crap, I guess that it's not all down to you. A clean break from the old me could have easily happened somewhere else, but it didn't. You're a beautiful city, and the spur-of-the-moment decision I made to quit my old job, get the hell out and come here was the best one I ever made.

POP goes the b3ta virginity!
(lexicon_rose cider queen of N15, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 19:14, 5 replies)

This is lovely.
I'll be moving to London in a few months, and I can't wait.
( zoldergoose, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 19:19, closed)

I'll be moving there in the summer too,
and I can't wait either! This post just reinforces my idea that it's the right thing to do.
(hashorangutan is watching iCarly on, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 13:55, closed)

Welcome
to b3ta, and *click* for telling the other side of London. Too often we hear of soaring crime rates, and overheating on the Tube, and unfriendly commuters. London is what you make it, and for me, I still get a buzz walking across Waterloo Bridge late at night, or catching the DLR into town at sunset, or a weekend getting pissed around the pubs in Barnes. Glad someone else feels the same!
(quantum raspberry quizzically quashing Quebecans, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 23:48, closed)

That There London..
Me and my new wife had our honeymoon in London, she'd never been before and she wanted to check out the big city.

Absolutely loved it, we did the whole touristy thing, chilled out and wandered the capital via the many Tube stations, and even did the whole luvvie theatre bit. Ace.

On the last day, I woke up early (around 5am) and took my camera out to get a few snapshots, our hotel was just by Westminster bridge.

I don't know what was better, the picture I got of the sun coming up over a deserted London, or the fact that I felt like I was reliving the opening scenes of 28 days later..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 11:58, closed)

Oh yes
The ex lived in London and many a good time I had weekending down at hers :)
( snee held his breath since, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 10:49, closed)