I'm going to go out on a politically dangerous limb to say that I don't live in London, but I do like it.
I've taken the doubly risky step of putting this in a new sub-thread to draw attention to this bold statement. I fully expect a lynching mob of provincial hunchbacks turning up at my office with pitchforks and flaming brands.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:37, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I quite liked that london.
the only problem was trying to talk to them. they all sound like wankers.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:39, Reply)

Fuck off back to France.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:39, Reply)

See, you, I like.
Actually, I have no problem with people who prefer not to live in, near or even visit London.

But it's the dismissiveness that gets to me. If you don't like it, that's fine by me, but it doesn't make it 'shit'.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:50, Reply)

neither do I
and I don't think London is shit in the slightest, although there isn't enough money in the world to persuade me to move back there - but I have a massive problem with anyone who dismisses the entire rest of the UK as "shit" because they happen to live in London.

Which was the counterpoint being played up there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Oh I know, I was playing devil's advocate as much as you were.
The Lake District is just about my favourite place in the world. I thnk Manchester is a great City, Northumbria is gorgeous and even Wales is OK, I suppose...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:09, Reply)

What's particularly interesting is that people get so aggressively defensive
of where they live, as if a criticism of their town is a direct slight on them and their choices. When most people live where they do entirely through some combination of chance and circumstance and wouldn't bat an eyelid over moving if circumstances forced it. It's very odd.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 10:15, Reply)

For some weird reason
London annoys me when I'm there on my own, because it's full of people dawdling along in my way. But if I go there with anybody else, it's fine. I think being in a group must turn me into a dawdler.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:56, Reply)

I lived there for nearly a year
and it sucked out my soul
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Oct 2012, 11:23, Reply)

I don't live in London either, and I fucking LOVED it.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Oct 2012, 9:52, Reply)