I hate London. I don’t think my loathing for this city defines me. It does, however, define this website.
-WIHL
Hate mail can be directed to: IHateLDN@googlemail.com
I hate London. I don’t think my loathing for this city defines me. It does, however, define this website.
-WIHL
Hate mail can be directed to: IHateLDN@googlemail.com
Spot on. Nothing closer to the truth then what you say. I was in London 3 months ago and then I genuinely enjoyed the experience. “Wow, there’s Big Ben, wow so many beautiful foreign women, wow so many niche restaurants”.
But then I visited again 2 weeks ago and stayed a week and I saw London for what it really is. I’m from Manchester and I noticed that London has a very serious air of desparation about it compared to Manchester. “Give us ALL your money cos we’re desparate” was the general messege.
Half the houses and buildings are deralict and the whole place looks backward and, well as you rightly say…a shit hole. The men look pathetic and weak and most people just seem soft and not clued up about anything other than where the next tube stop is.
Everything is expensive and without reason, the Tube is, without question, the worst public transport system in the entire Western world and I don’t feel safe on it in the slightest, and as you say, if you find yourself in London after the 12.30 am Cinderella time limit then its £100 to get home in a cab.
I also noticed London stinks and the whole place looks dirty and ready to fall apart. By the end of it I couldn’t wait to get back to Manchester. Geez…getting back to Manchester was like going to Munich after that London experience.
Joe
i couldn’t agree with you more. I’m American with most of US life spent in midwest and then Chicagao with travel all aroudn the US for work – then to Lisbon (an amazing fabulous liveable city) for 4 years with 2 big stints in NYC (good, bad, and ugly) but now F London. omigod. London is so provincial. I never even thought it possible. And they think they are so sophisticated. Crap transport, high prices, horrid/non-existent customer service, early closings of all general services (post office, doctors, dentists) need I say more. Hard to believe Brits put up with it. I will only for awhile. Rather put up with George Bush than London. Seriously.
Originally from the place I left London 7 years ago to work in Holland for a few years and then moved onto Spain where I lived and worked ever since and intend to say. Just the thought of going to London for the weekend to visit makes me grumpy. A sense of gloom hits me on arrival, the people just seem so awful and up themselves and the violence and aggression is horrible. Yeah London sucks big time…
What a lot of bollocks, there is no other city on this planet like London. London has culture oozing from the cracks in its pavements, style, life and excitement. History, honesty, freedom and liberty. Violence, individualism, intelligence and creativity, if you can’t see, feel or taste its magic then you are blinkered, empty and joyless.
after 4 years in this city i am beginning to hate it. its just becoming too hard.
I couldn’t agree more. London is a Shithole! But lets be honest here, it’s become shit, dangerous, desperate and violent because of the “enrichers”! Hardly anyone you see or speak to in London now is English.
you’re a cunt.
Absolutely spot on. I was going to blog this, but you got there first.
It took me a while, because I was caught up in the cavalcade of bullshit to realise why I am so pissed off. The place is toss. Headbuttingly frustrating, dirty, expensive, rip-off, self-aggrandising, bullshitting crap hole. I have the extreme misfortune to work there. I tried living there, and hated it. I am British, and unfortunately an Englishman in London. No surprises why as soon as anybody with a brain gets enough money together, they piss off to Spain.
“They have got to be the only people in the world that know that they’re in a miserable position, yet they’ll be damned if they admit it.”
No, they wil never admit it. It’s a kind of perverse London thing, like other people on the tube aren’t really people, or playing a shit rap “song” on a bus at full volume is ok, because you’ll get stabbed if you look at them, besides which, if you are in London, the rest of the world doesn’t exist.
The trouble is, I have seen how it does work everywhere else.
Berlin for example, the U-Bahn does not shut down just as most Berliners are going out, i.e. 12am, it’s relatively clean, there are people you can ask questions, and receive a reply that isn’t a shrug and muttering in some bizarre moon language, It doesn’t look like its going to fall apart, you don’t have to dodge piles of sick everywhere, etc. There are bars and restaurants everywhere open until you leave, not just in a four square mile area, you don’t constantly feel that you are about to get mugged, and this is in a city that was half in East Germany, and was bombed absolutely flat, was divded for 50 odd years. But you can still get a beer after 10 o’clock! those wacky Europeans!
Amsterdam. Yes, you can get a beer, 24hrs a day from pretty much anywhere… food that isn’t contaminated with rat’s piss, and other stuff too! and you can get home too without racing head long through London for the last train so you don’t end up waiting until five in the morning on a deserted piss stinking platform assailed by pikeys asking for money. Enough said.
Never mind, because the Olympics are coming! Transport disruption every day with a huge excuse for everything! Better than even a Bank Holiday! “S’the olympics innit?” It’s going to be hilarious, the corporate cash cow is ready for slaughter, all the names have their noses in the trough, in just over four years, the creaking disaster that is the London transport system will finally break under the weight, because I don’t see them fixing over sixy years of neglect, stupidity and underfunding in that time. Hopefully, I will be in a different job by then, whatever happens, I won’t be in that festering cess-pool of a place, and can watch the morons from a safe distance, like a different country.
I want people to admit the truth: London simply DOES NOT WORK.
P
Ha! I’ve recently moved to London and am definitely regretting it. Having visited several times, I at least knew that I disliked London – I consider this a mere stopover to better things! You are very accurate in your observations. Yesterday I waited 45 minutes for a train, only to discover that there were “severe delays” on the District and Circle lines. I’m still perplexed as to how anyone gets anywhere on time?
Glad to have found your blog.
Me thinks the problem is not London, its you.
If you can be so full of hate that it manifests itself in this way, you have a problem and if it were not London it would be somewhere or something else. Just like animal rights, anti fox hunting, anti abortion, anti anything extremist the problem is not the thing they are so crazy about, its themselves.
I left london nearly 20 years ago to live in america. I knew even when I was a little kid, jusst what a shit hole it was. but let me tell you something. back in the 70s and 80s London was great compared to the way it is now. It had an elegant decay about it then, and there were actual english londoners in it.
I went back for the first time since 1990 this year (2008) and I almost had a heart attack at what I saw. It is like a third world ghetto. Arabs, poakistanis, foreigners of all descriptions. formerly well kept streets now neglected, dirty, no filthy! just like the filthy people who now live in them.
I felt like a foreigner in the city in which i was born and rised and lived the first 25 years of my life.
It’s really an unbelievable scandal just how awful London has become, and anyone who cant see just how truly mind bogglingly awful it is, must be mentally ill.
things I hate about London: -
Dodging relentless amounts of sick and piss,
Road rage, people will get out and swear at each other,
It’s a dog eat dog city, there is no sense of unity,
Russian gangsters,
The tube obviously,
Everyone is ripping off everyone else, the whole city is built on greed and selfishness,
Because of the image that London creates, people feel that they have to adapt a somewhat cold and indifferent personality whilst in public,
After 4pm, and endless amount of newspapers will be shoved into your face.
i hate this place, get me out of here
I think you’re fucking brilliant. Keep blogging!