London, no thanks.

[threebikesmcginty]

Gruby sounds like a Clockwork Orange word, droogs. Innit.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2525016, member: 1314"]@vernon I went to see The Wedding Present in Camden last year. Brilliant.[/quote]


They are always worth seeing as are their offshoots the Ukrainians. I'm seeing them here in Leeds next Friday.

 

[swee'pea99]

"Black bogies"?

 

[colly]

[QUOTE 2524360, member: 1314"]I've heard good stuff about Leeds people.[/quote]
Just avoid the post offices.

 

[colly]

I come from London. Lived there and worked in central London until I saw the light.

Actually I looked for and found a job elsewhere where I could afford to live. That was way, way back in the 1970's. I can honestly say I have never felt the need to move back.
That feeling I get when the train sets off from Kings Cross back up North, make visiting a pleasure.

 

[Pale Rider]

London is a great place provided you are not either poor or in a hurry.

Unfortunately, many people there are either one, or the other, or both.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

London is a great place provided you are not either poor or in a hurry.

Unfortunately, many people there are either one, or the other, or both.

It also helps if you are young or at least young at heart, its definitely a young person's City. I personally love London, the sheer vibrancy and dynamacism of the place is amazing, and there is always something going on somewhere!. I don't know if I could live there, but I'd love to find out.

Black bogies - nuff said!

I am presuming you are talking about air quality?

 

[Maz]

It must have been a bit of a blow to discover that the gold paving has gone already.

The streets of London are no longer paved with gold...they're paved with doner kebabs.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'm quite old (57 ) and I love London

I meant to add 'Or young at heart'. Its not a place for old fogeys who just want to have a quiet life in the country.

What was it Dr Johnson said?

'If you are tired of London then you are tired of life'

 

[Primal Scream]

I'm quite old (57 ) and I love London

I am even older (62)and I was born in London and I will die in London.

More bars and bistros than any other place in the UK, great music venues' cosmopolitan and tolerant, I can get home by public transport all night if I have to.

 

[Sara_H]

I am presuming you are talking about air quality?

Errrm... yes. What else could it mean? Have I made a faux Pas?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Errrm... yes. What else could it mean? Have I made a faux Pas?

No no, just my warped mind, that's all.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I can get home by public transport all night if I have to.

Some of our buses are slow like that too!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

[QUOTE 2523063, member: 1314"]Never been to Tokyo but I must admit when I was out last night in Clapham, it was difficult to find something nice and cheapish to eat, outside of a curry.[/quote]

The Japanese take food seriously, even everyday food. People don't put up with crap. And the thing about Tokyo wot not a lot of people realise is that not only is the Japanese food obviously outstanding, but the quality of the food from elsewhere in the world is often better than you can find it in those countries except at the most expensive places. I've already eaten top-notch ramen (we have one of the top ramen places in Tokyo quite near us), sushi, Cantonese, Norman, Trinidadian, been to a brilliant Belgian beer bar and had some of the best French bread I've ever eaten (even in Paris - it's no accident some of the best current Paris patissieres and bakers are Japanese) and yesterday we were in a hilariousluy ironic version of an English tea-room complete with a tiny, automatic hand-waving figure of the Queen...

 

[User169]

and yesterday we were in a hilariousluy ironic version of an English tea-room complete with a tiny, automatic hand-waving figure of the Queen...

Did you order cake and the finest wines known to humanity?