Do you find London to be a depressing city?

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I am only a student but London is the babe of all cities. I love it no matter how depressing it might be.

I've lived in London for the past 22 years (born here) but i'm starting to seeLondon to have one of the most depressing atmospheres.

Reasons:

- The weather is always terrible. Its too dull. You have to wake up to cloudy skies and a hidden sun, then sleep to terrible winds and covered stars.

- Its too historic, you don't feel as if its really moving forward with anything. The houses are all the same red brick ugly style (unless you have real £). Its full of museums and dull rivers.

- Tax depresses you. You have a nice salary of £50k? Get ready to give 14k away. You can then try to save your pennies for the next couple of years till you manage to save enough to take a mortgage on a small house outside London.

- NHS is downgrading year after year.

The list goes on.

Any thoughts?

Which uni you at?


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That's not true. In all fairness, I do live in the second city for uni but I've lived in London most my life and Birmingham is far better. You get the beautiful period architecture in the business district and jewelry quarter, in fact there's whole areas of central Birmingham with beautiful architecture and history. The town house, where the council is based, is just spectacular and right next to a great museum and art gallery. Then a 5 minute walk away you've got the largest library in Europe, another 10 minutes in the opposite direction you have the largest train station in Europe and is, technically, the first grand central station. From there walk to the bull ring which is the largest shopping center in Europe. Birmingham is on par with London in terms of industrial development. From the bull another 20 mins walk and you've got the custard factory on digbeth... the center music happening of the UK, where recently in the past 3 years have had several Indie bands playing at Glastonbury and all the many other top notch festivals. There's so much **** to do up in Birmingham, plus housing is far cheaper than London. I've had friend who have rented and entire house for themselves with 4 bedrooms for 500pm with water and council tax bills included and fully furnished. Just saying. Bargain

That's the deal breaker for me. I flat out refuser to live anywhere near London for this reason.

The countryside further North is far superior. If you like outdoor hobbies the south just doesn't compare. In North of England you have access to Peak District (rock climbers come from all over the place to climb here), Lake District, North Whales, Yorkshire Dales. Then throw in Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, York, Leeds and so on for your city life. You have easy access to amazing countryside and city life if you want it. I do like cities but being able to easily get out on my bike into somewhere like the Peak District is far more important. Where I live I have the Peaks on my doorstep and Manchester city centre is a 25min train journey away.

Living in London would really badly effect my mental health.

I've lived in London for the past 22 years (born here) but i'm starting to seeLondon to have one of the most depressing atmospheres.

Reasons:

- The weather is always terrible. Its too dull. You have to wake up to cloudy skies and a hidden sun, then sleep to terrible winds and covered stars.

- Its too historic, you don't feel as if its really moving forward with anything. The houses are all the same red brick ugly style (unless you have real £). Its full of museums and dull rivers.

- Tax depresses you. You have a nice salary of £50k? Get ready to give 14k away. You can then try to save your pennies for the next couple of years till you manage to save enough to take a mortgage on a small house outside London.

- NHS is downgrading year after year.

The list goes on.

Any thoughts?

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I've lived in London for the past 22 years (born here) but i'm starting to seeLondon to have one of the most depressing atmospheres.



- Its too historic, you don't feel as if its really moving forward with anything. The houses are all the same red brick ugly style (unless you have real £). Its full of museums and dull rivers.


Any thoughts?

go to central.

i live in a shithole so i feel ya gurl