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 suppose you were missing the acres of empty un-developed of Manchester, or it’s exquisite cultural life (outside of a few thousand hardy survivors). God I miss, as an exiled-Manc, the bikini clad, high-heeled idiots bussed or trammed in to town to enjoy plastic food and bars and egregious conviviality! This in a city that once produced radicals, dissenter, industrialists, musicians, poets, writers and thinkers. Twenty-five years ago Manchester was a dump, but it was a civic entity, a proud city, able to hold it’s socio-political chops with the finest. Now it’s feckin theme park to credit financed consumerism.
London, my home for now, for shame, at least has a remnant originality and oomph.
Joe – Spot on!
I couldn’t agree with you more. I came here last month for work. Good that I am not here for long time First thing is it is very expensive. Everything from tube to food to beer is shit expensive. Not to mention the rent prices. People seem so cold and unfriendly here. Every weekend some maintenance happen here in all the tube lines. I think I just need to ignore the bad things as long as I am here.
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.
Chicagao sounds awesome
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.
hear hear
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!
Too right, i come from Brighton and had to live on the outskirts of London for 3 years. What an absolutely horrific place, depressing, full of desperate fuckers trying to get a better postcode paying out of their arses to be surrounded by nutters, arrogant arseholes, criminals and grotty suburbs full of depressingly anonymous people. Great to visit occasionally but when I’m the train back to Brighton I sigh relief, what an utter shithole.
Wait, you’re relieved to get back to Brighton? Jesus, what an utterly soul-destroying existence that must be…
FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO SEES THE TRUTH!
I feel what you feel. I agree with you.
Even Satan refuses to visit London.
Please God help me, I have to go to London in a few days and I don’t want to. Someone rescue me. Where are the angelic beings to carry me off to safety? A giant moth will do – it can pick me up and fly me out of London, which is a vile place. I feel sick just thinking about it. The only good thing about London is I met a visitor who said they were searching for a London publisher for their novel ‘I thought the ZOMBIE PIMPS were mine.’
Why should everything be in London? It’s wrong! GIMME MONEY AND SEND ME ANGELS TO GET ME OUTTA HERE!!
God how exhausting. I don’t agree with the racist rubbish written on this page. But I heartily DO agree that London is unliveable (sp?). I’m trying – gritting my teeth in desperation! – not to resort to words like crappy, shit-hole, haemorrhoid-inducingly arse-paralysingly cuntful. I shan’t sink that low. I’m Australian (okay – let ‘er rip) and I’ve lived here 12 years. Mostly, at least at first, I adored that I was “getting back to my cultural roots”, and when I first arrived that “history seeping from every stone” really did feel overpowering and awe-inspiring. But now I just feel the human wearing-down of this unwieldy place, and I feel defeated, and I have to get out of here before I implode. I hate this; I have a lovely job, I work for wonderful people, my partner (a Brit) is my best friend and lover, and some things will never be as good as they are here (art, classical music, history …). But I have to go, for my sanity’s sake. I’m not alone – thanks, at least, for comforting me in that!
I visited and had a great time. London is wonderful! Then I moved here from the United States. Oh my lord, to call London a third-world shithole would be a vast understatement.
Where to begin. It’s lawless. My landlady walked into my flat one day unannounced while i was sitting in my underwear reading the morning news. I had to basically physically threaten her to leave. Another day I had a bailiff literally trying to break into my flat (!?!?!?!) by breaking down my door because the previous tenant didn’t pay his council tax. After calling the police, I was the one nearly arrested because these toothless Brits didn’t believe I wasn’t the person who hadn’t paid my council tax despite showing them my passport that didn’t match the name of bill. I’ve seen a drunken British idiot kick his dog full-force in the face for no good reason. I’ve been in fist fights protecting women from getting sexually assaulted. For the record, I have never in my life been in a fist fight. My Australian friend and I got to watch a streetbrawl with riot police on New Years 2007 from my balcony as Brits sliced and diced each other up with policemen bashing in the skulls of some woman. I had to shield my sister’s eyes on a bus when the man next to her whipped his cock out and started wanking himself. Ok, I’ll stop there on the lawlessness…
The tube. Wow. How any British person can honestly believe they live in a great country when their transportation system is the worst on the planet is mindboggling. Thankfully I won’t be living here for much longer and will miss the fun that the Olympics has to offer, because it’s going to be quite comical reading about what happens to the tube in 2012. It seriously never works. My favorite is when you hear the announcement that “due to signal failure, the metropolitan, circle, hammersmith & city, district, northern, piccadilly, and victoria lines are not in service. ALL OTHER LINES ARE OPERATING A GOOD SERVICE.” All other lines? Didn’t you just mention all of them?
I could go on and on and on about this, but I’ll conclude with a final complaint, that being the fact that London is a city that doesn’t work, and even more disturbing, no one cares that it doesn’t work. There’s no pride of ownership, there’s no pride in functionality, there’s no pride in service… there’s really no pride in anything. I know there’s no simple answer to the meaning of life, but I highly doubt that Londoners are even remotely close to whatever the answer truly is.
And whoever wrote that comment about Berlin was 100% spot on and I could not possibly agree more on the comparison.
I just rang my local mp to say that i will not be paying taxes anymore but unfortunately i couldnt get hold of him. I really hate living in london especialy dealing with costumer service from the asian and african countries and their pathetic attitude towards white people. God blessed me with white skin and i cherish that so stop fucking hating in my own city and go back to your own shithole and eat dog shit
This is maybe the stupidest blog I’ve ever come across. And there are some really nutty ones out there….
Yet you took the time to leave a comment…
London sucks HOWEVER, I do love it
I hate London between the hours of 1200 am and 3 am. London is home to the most inconsiderate shits. So much noise, so many c*nts. If you can’t beat them and you can’t stand joining them, what can you do? The police are useless, brain-dead cowards. I can’t believe this city hasn’t spawned more serial killers. I’d be one if I wasn’t so considerate.
you have way too much time on your hands
you don’t like it here, get the f*ck out, why stay and whinge about it?
A lot of people can’t hack it here, so don’t be too down on yourself…….
So: on your way, be seeing you; I’m guessing we’ll struggle on without you somehow
Hey there. Is this blog still going? I’ve lived/worked in the UK for 9 years, all in and around London. I have applied to emigrate to Oz as I can’t take much more of this place. Uncontrolled immigration and UK migration to the South East, under-nvestment and poor governance/management have resulted in a drastic drop in the quality of life for most people who live and work in London resulting in a huge strain on the infrastructure, cultural tensions, economic tensions etc. I have travelled to and spent time in many other countries and can safely say that London is a hole. How people feel about London here is sadly how many people feel about Britain and why so many indigenous British are emigrating. And what’s with these dumb social rules that we are all guilty of obeying like no talking to strangers, no eye contact, sheep-like common sense-less commuting etiquette. And all the miserable faces? Seems like everyone is so unhappy. I guess thats whay so many peope booze in London and/or have mental health problems. Aaah, and the ever-present chav – the non-working working class – the product of modern Britains poor political and economic judgement. At least having lived in London, those of us who know better and are fortunate enough to leave it will appreciate the better places we have moved/will move onto.
You say you hate London, but are still here?
Preach on, I also hate London. The first and last time I was there I stayed in a hotel in Mayfair. The people on the streets were probably the rudest and most condescending people I’ve ever been around… and I’ve been to Paris! Anyhow the second shocker was in the morning when I searched high and low for something acceptable to eat… Being Britain I didn’t have high hopes. After finding a halfway descent sandwich place that cost about $20 for one slice of ham and cheese on a small piece of bread I sat down to eat it only to be told that I couldn’t sit in the establishment unless I paid them more money… Indignantly I took my sandwich the great big gray world outside and sat on a stoop across the street to eat my food. The architecture is alright, the parks have their charming moments… but all in all I would rather go to Brussels any day over London. Brussels has nice people, great beer, great food, and amazing architecture.
After 2 month in this city I count a days until my flight to home in warm-like-paradise Portugal. And I have no intention to return here any more. The most of all I hate constant problems with the tube and LEFT SIDED traffic (WHY??) Fuck! I feel pity that I didn’t found your blog BEFORE I spent a lot of money on this trip to fucking UK.
The only thing I liked here in London is the Natural history museum.
OI. YOU ARENT ALLOIWED TO SAY THAT ABOUT LONDON TOWNE! THEYLL PUT YOU IN THE TOWER!
OI. ARREST THIS MAN! HE DOESNT LOIKE OUR MINCE POIES! AND HE DOESNT LIKE WOTCHING THE TELLY EITHER!
ORF WIF HIS HEAD!
I think London is definitely a unique place and there is no other place like it – that’s for sure. It does have some cool things but, most of the time, the bad out weighs the good. You have to master the art of “turning a blind eye” in order to live in London..
We all know that London doesn’t fall very high on the list of “best cities to live in”. ..and life does NOT need to be this difficult and/or hard – if you think London is a great and easy place to live, then you were probably born in London and have adapted to it’s hard way of life since birth. I think living in a 3rd world country, might prove more enjoyable than living in London.
The sun like..NEVER shining is a real disappointment and people definitely suffer with depression and low moods here. In some ways, you can’t really blame everyone for their piss poor attitudes..maybe they should put everyone living in London on anti-depressants. Although, that won’t go very well with the drink problems that most people seem to have.
I loved the bit about the A406 – I, too, cannot understand why the f*** this country doesn’t wake up and put in some infrastructure…it’s 2010 dammit!!
What about the M25? How unbelievable is that?! Closing the motorway every 5 minutes for a fender bender? Although, it’s not just the M25 that they close, with no other route available for road users to take..it’s like that all over the damned country!! None of those rescue workers give a damn about the people sitting on the roads for hours on end.. The lack of care for anyone or anything, full stop, is incredible.
I might need to write my own blog, lol. I’m going to stop there.
Great blog.
The above was to Joe, Manc.
London tosses all over over every other city in Europe over a life time (Paris is more beautiful, Barca is great for a year, Madrid for a raging booze time, Berlin for avant garde etc etc) outside for those of the European-American cultural experience (be honest who growing up in Des Moines, Salford or Amiens can ‘really’ judge Hanoi or Kolkatta), only NYC comes close, and every knows after asyear there, it’s fucking London on rickets (less diverse, less cultured, less pretty, less ugly- as great as she is).
Only other places in the west to compare: Chicago, Il & Paris (France).
That’s my O’Pin On only, nodda fak
The rest, fuck off and lick your wounds.
“London has culture oozing from the cracks in its pavements, style, life and excitement. ”
This is standard response from anyone who lives in London. I know – I live there. Yes, London is oozing culture, style, excitement, but all those elements are outweighed by the negatives, and there are so many other nicer cities around the world which also ooze style, culture and excitement.
Samuel Johnson said a man who is tired of London is tired of life. Of course, Dr Johnson didn’t live in 21st century London.
what intrigues me about this city is how more affluent people who live in London’s better suburbs think they live in terribly stylish places! They are awful, but they can’t see it because compared to the revolting suburbs nearby – their’s is better! They think they live in a fancy place but, seriously, London all over – posh or poor – is one big expensive inconvenient fillthy shit hole. Can’t wait to leave.
I recently moved to London to live with my boyfriend. Love him to bits, HATE London. What an expensive over rated shit tip it is where the streets are paved with shit. The funny thing is, and I laugh whilst I type this message, I left WOLVERHAMPTON!!!!!!….voted within the top 3 worst places in the world to live, to live in London, where I have to spoon the person next to me and inhale rancid fumes on the bus/train in order to get to work. London is not for me.
The problem is about a blog on London is that you can’t generalize about the place. Is a life in Holland Park the same as Newham, or Kensington the same as Barking? So please get real about it. Its fantastic for some and terrible for others. The problem is, that unless your in the upper class you will finally end up hating the place like we did.
The final straw came when a teenager girl got randomly shot to death in the neck just round the corner. Did I want my daughters to grow up here?
Even friendship are hard to keep going. I hadn’t seen much a good mate for a week or two and suggested we meet up. ‘I’m really snowed for a couple of months’ was the reply, and these we’re some of our best friends!
We’ve finally escaped with a lot of effort (its harder than you think for anyone thinking that they can get their work experience with a top London firm and then do anything they want by the way).
Better to visit the place on Holiday and be done with it. All of the above comments are true- but not for everyone.
One last word. If your not from the UK please don’t tarnish England with the same brush. Growing up in rural England is idylic.
In 2005 I stayed at the Holiday Inn at King’s Cross and got bit on the arse by a bedbug. However, it was only one bite, one time. I stayed in Rome in Trastevere at a bed and breakfast and got bit to pieces by bedbugs, which infested all of Rome and the suburbs. Beware using any public toilets in restaurants or especially on mass transit in Rome, you will get bit. What was worse was the trains all had bedbugs including the intercity Rome to Milan train, I got bit on the face 4 times when I fell asleep. Seats are porous fabric perfect homes for bedbugs. I think Scipio must have brought them back from North Africa during the war with the Carthaginians and they have been breeding all over Rome ever since. Another vile place for bedbugs is the bus from Seville in Spain, to Lisbon. This happens to be a line frequented by people just off the boat from North Africa and they definitely are infested with bedbugs and now most of downtown Lisbon is full of cooties and bedbugs and scabies. London in my experience in 2005 had a relatively low bedbug count but now, especially with all the wonderful people from Pakistan importing their inlaws and second and third cousins,
and various other North African towelheads doing the same, London may have as many bedbugs as Rome, if that is possible.
When in Europe, beware internet cafes run by Pakistanis or places where Pakistanis hang out. I frequented various internet cafes run by Pakistanis where many Pakistanis hung out, they mainly used Skype, when these guys walked past the bedbugs would literally leap off of them onto any unsuspecting person nearby.
I randomly came across this website after searching for London on Google and I was simply going to ask, why are you so negative?
Can’t you look at the glass as half full, nothing is ever perfect.
All the best,
David.
The person who wrote this blog must have read my mind, especially about the transport system. Every single time I take the tube I feel like my human rights have been abused beyond belief…How can people be packed like cattle in a so called DEVELOPED country? How is that possible?
And the fares go up EVERY SINGLE year…And trust me, I have an oyster card but I am still angry about this BS.
The jubilee line is a PART-TIME line. It works from monday to Friday and on weekends NOTHING. So if you live in an area where you can only catch the Jubilee line, forget about having a social life on weekends or just buy a car.
After fighting through the fog and the lack of sunshine and getting on HellJourney (i.e. the tube), you can only go home and start such a blog.
Thank you!!!! It has really made my day reading the posts and comments.
I took a job in Central London in July 2008 thinking it would be an exciting career move- after all my previous post was dead boring and for the first 23.5 years of my life I enjoyed my days out in ‘the big smoke’ (I’m from Guildford- 30 miles away from my work). I still consider it a good place for a day out but nothing more than that.
The streets are dirty, the buildings are ugly, the people are miserable looking, the girls aren’t very pretty (Guildford girls wipe the floor with them in the looks department). I get a good view of the surrounding city from the 15th floor of my office and oh my gosh, horrible grey fucking concrete jungle all around me.
Everything is so overpriced and overrated. I’ve taken two ‘flights’ on the London Eye and been bored out of my mind on both occasions. People shell out to live in grotty little flats in this stinking city- are they out of their minds? Yes there’s money to be gained from working in London but you have to put up with an absolute shit hole every day.
I saw Manhattan less than a year into my time working in London and heck it is way nicer. Much cleaner, better architecture, Central Park is way more beautiful than any London green spots, Grand Central Station is a hell of a lot nicer than scummy Waterloo, etc. And driving into and out of Central London once- absolute hell hole with stupid traffic laws, e.g. fines for driving in bus lanes (easy to do).
The only place I like in London is the British Film Institute. Otherwise it sucks- still a good day once in a while but nothing more. If you want history there are plenty of scenic castles in the U.K. I have aborted any plans to move to London and look forward to the day I stop working there- recession does not help of course. Nice to know others hate it too!
I moved to London 6 months ago and I can honestly say I’ve hated 90% of it. There’s something about this place that encourages depressive feelings – everytime I’ve been away and I’m pulling into Euston, I get that familiar sinking feeling…already thinking about the fucking hellish journey home I will definitely face!!!
I seriously do not understand the appeal – I know for some it will be amazing (probably if your a poser and a pretentious shit sitting in Camden somewhere) but as a Manc its been the most bad mannered place I’ve ever encountered. In the North at least if you were about to get attacked some fucker would stop to help, not here!
All I’ve heard about it robberies, stabbings and delays!
Sorry London Lovers…not for me! And before you tell me ‘If you don’t like it then fuck off back to where you came from’….I’m doing just that.
Ciao
I moved here 4 months ago from Aberdeen in the north of Scotland, A Lonely Planet travel critic from London stated this about my home town “the only thing greyer than the weather is the people” well now that I’m in London I would like to state this….. London is a filthy horrible place, full of filthy horrible foreigners, I worry about catching TB and god knows what else on my daily commute to work. Everyone goes on about how multicultural it is and how much vibe it has, well let me tell you after a few weeks that gets very old and then you start to see this shit hole for what it is, There is hardly a white face to be seen, everyone is foreign and It pisses me off, they are all as rude as fuck and out for themselves, they think britain owes them a living and milk the fuck out off our far to liberal system, I was never racist before I moved to london, but after just 4 months off being here I am sick to the stomach to see what our useless government and liberal do gooders has allowed to happen to this country. I hate being racist and I wish I wasn’t but everyday I can see for myself that these foreigners are no good for britain, Every time I read the paper or watch the news you I hear about our multicultural friends ripping off the system, drugs, prostitution, stabbings, scams, diseases you name it and there coming in by the boat load everyday because they know britain will feed them, house them and throw there own 10th generation citizens in jail if they even hint at there dislike of paying there taxes to support this. This city is fucked, Britain is fucked, I would love to boot all these assholes out and get stuck in to rebuilding britain to it’s former glory but I know it’s too late for that now, politicians don’t care about the country, only there career and how they looked on question time, it’s dog eat dog and I look forward to a world economic crash, just a matter of time!!!
and so grey..
Yes London has it’s bad parts, East London, the snobish that live in Central London and only Central London, and the crime. But doesn’t every city? Manchester or ‘gunchester’ is well known for crime, i.e Mosside. And all the Americans who are slagging London off, if you don’t like Fuck Off back to your own country, where if someone said you need to use public transport, you would get a heart-atatck as it’s unthinkable for you guys to get on your feet and walk in order to get there without using a car(in some parts of your country).
I’ve been to London for 5 days.
Yes, there are many things to do, many places to visit, but visit and then return home!
The distance are sooo big! The taxi tooo expensive!!!
I couldn’t stand the wheather! How cand you live without sparkle? without sunshine?
I really don’t understand why so many people chose to live there.
I hate this city. I am here, because my partner is dual and the economy in the U.S. is in the toilet and he was offered a job here. I was Googling “I hate London” and came across your blog.
We are living in the lovely (and that is dripping with sarcasm) SE of London and it’s like the fucking gulag. Filthy, piles of sick at every bus stop, garbage everywhere, miserable and rude people. I do not understand how people can allow their homes to be so depressing and filthy. I meant for piss sake you have to walk up to it every day, don’t you want to see something nice.
The sun rarely shines and taking the train to London Bridge is like a railway through hell.
The big parks like Regents and Hyde are beautiful when it’s not raining out and the areas where only people who rake in millions can afford to live are lovely, but that’s like 1% of the city.
I’ll take the homeless and gang-bangers in San Francisco any day….
I hate the English. A pack of demented, miscegenating queers. Their favorite pet is blackie. They just looooove him to death, don’t they? Caribbean blacks are disappearing as a demographic due to all the miscegenation. After a few more generations of this, the stuffy English will have been transformed into something racially resembling Puerto Rico, Venezuela, or Egypt. A just reward for such a degenerate breed. DIE OFF!!!
Agree, London provides a poor quality of life – mainly driven by its excessive costs/taxes, inefficiency, unfavourable weather, bad service, and pollution.
High VAT tax, high petrol tax, high Heathrow tax, expensive (and constantly broken!) Tube system, cloudy/rainy weather is the norm, no mountains/sandy beaches/warm water, third world “immigrants” everywhere (who refuse to assimilate or give 2 F’s about England), narrow uni system (only 5 good unis), stamp duty, flats have crappy water and heating systems, defunct NHS system (City workers all have private insurance as a fringe benefit).
People here have no interesting hobbies – it’s too costly and there’s no room for any sports gear in the dinky apartments. So people just work, eat and drink week after week. Actually, to have fun on the weekend people grab a Ryan Air flight and LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
The only people who think living in London is great is those on welfare benefits or those who have never lived in another city or country (no sense of relativity). Would hate to attempt to raise a family here.
I suggest we seller the fuker…
Where are you? You were my hero. I was out of this shithole for 2 great yrs…, but now im back. come chare my misery…, plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz