torrain would leave me in a heartbeat for this.

[theweaselking]

(She'd come back. But y'know how it is.)

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[frith]

My sister is living somewhere in the middle of that, teaching.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

My uncle's got an apartment just a little to the left and down from London Bridge.

But yeah. My wife would abandon me *in a heartbeat* for a trip there. She grew up in London and has been a mad fangirl ever since.

(I'm trying to convince here that we can stop there on our way back from Iceland next summer. Which would be awesome.)

[jerril]

Iceland's a good choice. So's stopping by in England anywhere, although admittedly my choice would involve the accessible Roman ruins out in the countryside.

[fearmeforiampink]

I can see my house!

Well, no, I can't. But if you turned 180 degrees, my the appartment building I'm in would probably be in it, though possibly obscured.

I still grin whenever I look out the window and see the BT tower. Then again, I grew up in London too, so I've probably got a somewhat similar reaction to it to your wife. And a rent free flat in the centre.

Now all I need is a job...

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> And a rent free flat in the centre.

...

...there is a reason I have no desire to kill you out of jealousy, suck the marrow from your bones, and move into your flat like a cuckoo child.

Give me a moment and I'll remember what it is.

[fearmeforiampink]

You don't like the taste of marrow?

You're not the first to have that kind of reaction. It's quite a nice large flat too.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I wish *my* London looked that cool. Maybe in another couple-hundred years of development and a big fire or two...

-- Steve also wishes he could take HDR photography like that. It's an amazing technique.

[fearmeforiampink]

There are downsides. There's likely not one decent sized tescos in the entire area covered by that photo. And few Marks and Spencers that aren't "Simply Food". And so forth.

It's frustratig how hard it is to get fairly ordinary things in the centre of the capital.

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

I grew up just outside London (as far North West as you can get on the Underground).
I hate the place. It's loud, its crowded, its filthy on the ground, it's filthy in the air to the point where your snot is black after a day in the city, its overpriced and in general a thoroughly unpleasant place. I rarely go there when I'm back on Native soil (the shopping is still good, so its kinda worth it).

Paris is the same, but far more romantic.

Now, if you want a good european city, may I recommend either Amsterdam or Stockholm? both have a lot of water around so there's more space and the air is much cleaner. Most of the bonuses, none of the negatives.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I know. Believe me, I don't romaticize the place. (Well. Possibly I do, although I generally understand that it is a brutal place that eats its young.)

But I don't want a good European city. I want London.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I love visiting London, but my three attempts at living there were hell. You couldn't pay me enough