In every way except for location.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:27, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Damn us with our cheaper cost of living and good, clean air.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:30, Reply)

I smoked for 21 years, I think that clean air would be wasted on these wrecked lungs.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:33, Reply)

you do know there's a reason it's cheaper up there don't you?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:33, Reply)

Oh, don't get me wrong, there are huge disadvantages to the north as well (most notably the current economic climate).
I like London as a place to visit, but I could no more live and work there than I could seal my own arsehole up. The sheer griminess I feel after a day out in the capital is horrible.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

When I were a lad
we used to come up to town to go to Kensington Market and we always used to remark upon the black bogies we'd have on the way home afterwards. With our 8' Bauhaus posters and gig bootleg cassettes.

London is fucking grubby. That said since they cleaned it up St Paul's looks amazing - or did until the Dale Farm overspill set up there.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

I miss Kensington Market Monty.
There's a particular smell of incense that always reminds me of that place.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:41, Reply)

Yup.
I loved it there.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:42, Reply)

Me too.
it's scary in some way we are so similar, in other, so different, there's a sitcom in this me thinks.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:44, Reply)

Same here, but in reverse.
the green stuff is pretty and the air is nice, but after a while I get a kind of cultural/social agoraphobia as I slowly realise how far I am form all the amenities and people of London.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:41, Reply)

Same.
When you want some quality foreign food and all you have is the Taj Mahal or Wong's fucking Garden or a shit doner....you know it's time to go back to London.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:43, Reply)

Yup, or when you want a bus more than once every 2 hours
or the ability to just wander into town and know there's something going on.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:45, Reply)

*London fives*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:50, Reply)

You do realise that if you lived outside London you might actually have some money left over at the end of the month don't you?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:55, Reply)