Bottom always made me interested in Hammersmith. What's that like?

>>3573

A bit shit, but if you go a few tube stations down towards Turnham Green it becomes a whole lot nicer.

>>3573

Only vaguely apropos, but I've always wanted to see a version of The Inbetweeners set in an inner-London school. The series would predictably end early when the boys get stabbed to death by a gang of Somalis at the end of the episode where Simon gets wanked off at an underage disco.

>>3575
I'm still surprised they got away with showing that. I get the feeling it'll feature in some future version of "It was alright in the 70's"

>>3568
I don't get the hatred towards south London. Areas like Peckham are now getting hipsterish real quick. As there are still poorer spots you can get fair rent there and still be relatively near the centre.

>>3549

Not Op, but in a similar problem.

I'm from a shit northern town, looking to escape the shit northern life, so I've got myself a job in zone 1 and shouldn't be hurting for money.

Only issue is that I'm moving down in september with the bird, and finding property available then is a nightmare. Is there something about the london market that makes lettings so immediate? Can any of you lads help?

Anon just to add some balance.

I'm from Manchester and moved to London for work (though ironically back in Manchester for a while because of Corona) and living in London changed my feelings about the UK. Sure, you can probably find close to, or most things, that you want in Manchester but London is a completely different ball game. It's expensive to live there because the good jobs are there in abundance and it's a place worth living in. I'm never bored on the weekends, there's always something going on or something to do. In normal times you're a tube ride away from the airport to go on a weekend break somewhere or further afield, the networking is great and there's always weird quirky shit you can do, go to Viktor Wynd's Museum then stroll round Hyde Park on the way home - what a nice Sunday.

There are of course downsides, mainly the standard of living and the cost of it, but to me it makes it worth it, but I'm not over 30 and looking to settle down so that might change things significantly.

Compared to living in Manchester as well it blew my mind how little rain London gets. It might be grey, but that constant unending drizzle doesn't seem to exist in the same way as it does in Manchester and makes me significantly less depressed. London has it's rough areas, but it has also been gentrified (and don't shoot me Corbyn-lads, but I don't think improving areas is a bad thing, we can't stay stagnant for fear of some people being left behind because they like their shitholes shit.) so there are a lot of nice places everywhere. In Manchester you kind of have the city centre bit then outside of it is really just scarred post-industrial towns and villages like Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Bury. None of them are bad places, but none of them will make you look back on your deathbed and feel like you've been living. Again, London has their grim areas, but they still feel significantly less shite than up north.

Finally if you're looking for a partner, London seems to have great choice, there are lots of ambitious, young, driven people from all over the world all crammed into one crazy city with money to spend. What's not to like about that?

My vote goes to London. I could never contemplate living somewhere like Manchester permanently again.

>>3550
I don't know how Corona has impacted it but London lettings move fast, you have to just go with your gut I've found. There's too many people, too much competition and you don't have the days to ponder it like you do elsewhere. It's a bit of a risk but if you sign six months you can always look to be moving out.

>>3551
>go to Viktor Wynd's Museum
I fingered a girl's bum in there. The bar staff gave us funny looks when we left as there's obviously CCTV. She bought me a turkish dinner after.

>>3552
A truly great place.

I am in general happier and more financially secure living up north, but every time I go to London I wish I lived there again. It really is just a lot more interesting. But up here I have a reasonably large house with a private road leading to it and some gardens and land - I could not hope to afford much more than a shoebox in streatham for the same sort of money, and as my main hobby is car fiddling which requires space, I have made my choice to settle up here.

If my career goes the way I intend, I will probably end up back down there in some suburb.

Haha I was high and watching this the other night, would happily binge this. Within the first few minutes I think he almost gets run over. Good call avoiding the river though, the bridge was the better bet.

>>3522
Or, depending on how you want to define "country", Gibraltar. The obvious but wrong choice would be Sark, which is tiny but unfortunately part of Guernsey.

There's also that bit at the top of Norway which is pretty thin. Start at the top of the hill and you can more or less roll down to the coast.

>>3523
I don't think the bridge was the better bet. It looked dicey as fuck and if he'd gone in he'd have had no chance with his gear on.

>>3522>>3524

Sealand. Just walk across the room.

Part Two's up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRgrhJemQM

It's a great place to live, but quiet and in the summer, very very hot indeed. You might get bored with it being so hot. It is indeed quite a cheap place to live.

If you can get work (there are quite a few local internet companies) that isn't tourism based, you'll live okay.

I am half-Maltese and have visited 20+ times - I will probably get a place there when I retire. If you're younger, I would certainly try living there for a month before you fully commit, particularly if you don't have a job.

>>3515

Can you comment on the womenfolk?

>>3516
Beautiful when young, but as a previous lad says, they get fat and just wear black all the time. Malta is actually the fattest country in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Malta

>>3517
>Beautiful when young
Okay dude.

>>3517

The difference between obesity rates in Malta vs the UK is as far as I can tell about 2% I'm not saying that makes the Maltese less fat but we are hardly in a place to be critical.

>>3503

There is a board game cafe in Croydon might be something a bit different for you to do together.

>>3504
I suppose it could work but I was aiming to get away from the pub this time which is precisely what makes this difficult. My thinking was more taking her all the way to Cutty Sark to see Pirates of Penzance as a last ditch option.

>>3485
Canal pusher upgrading to the Thames.

I'd be up for a meet.

>>3507

What you do is head North from Victoria St up Broadway until you reach St James's Park Station then you take the tube from there to somewhere else.

Can't have a good night out in that London. What you wanna do is get on t'train to Wakey.

>>3473
Westminster itself is quite tough to go out in - you need to go East really for a good night out..

Go watch some autistic hipster mutants doing some deeply pathetic 'sound art' at Cafe Oto in Dalston, their circle jerk clique is 24/7 and there's weird shite on every night, has to be seen to be believed. Many attractive and confused young art hoe ladies there.

>>3475
Shakey Wakey

>>3467

I suspect you're lonely because you're such a repellent cunt.

>>3467

I've got to admit you've lost me with that particular non-sequitur there, ladm80.

>>3468
I think that unlikely, since I'd have to meet people first.

>>3469
Alright ignore it. I didn't mean girls and fleeting relationships anyway, I mean social circles in general. Support networks. People to have a beer with.

>>3471

> I mean social circles in general. Support networks. People to have a beer with.

Isn't that what was basically described in post >>3466 ?

Just because a person is female doesn't mean you can't be friends and definitely doesn't mean you can't penetrate (ahem) her social circle.

Goatse London

>>3452
>In my experience landlords/letting agents are happy to let a fixed term tenancy lapse into a periodic tenancy after one or two terms. In fact I think I've just ignored the renewal letters so they get the message I won't be paying their pointless fee.
Either your experience is horribly out of date or you're one of those dogs who think people on the internet can't figure out that they're dogs. I've been in my current flat for 8 years, and the only time it went periodic they immediately filed a s.21 claim.

>>3447

It looks like my bumhole and the surrounding pallour when I dared to inject Ribena directly into my cock for several months.

There's a metaphor the state of our nation in there somewhere.

>>3712
>Either your experience is horribly out of date

He says whilst replying to a post from 2018.

>>3714
... when it was already out of date.

>>3438
Inverness is the only place wkth unpopulated places nearby.

>>3436

Try Liverpool. The housing is ludicrously cheap and the people are irritatingly friendly.

>>3440
Seconding. Liverpool is the only place I've been where you walk down the street and random people will smile at you and say "y'aright la?"

Liverpool is the best place I've ever lived.

>>3440
>>3441

I think that makes a huge difference if you're socially awkward. It's like interacting with people after everyone's had a few drinks.

>>3374

What kind of future three-thousand shit is an inflatable hot tub and why aren't I posting from one right now?

>>3375

Do you have £449.99 and a back garden?

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/1449127

>>3376

When I see these not on decking I always think "Why do you hate your grass?"

Lads, I've done it. I've moved to Stoke. (Not stoke really, it's Newcastle, but they're pretty much the same place more or less.)
I've got a problem though, I'm the least Stokey person I know. Even the French guy I work with is more Stokey than I am.


>>3377
To be fair, most of the people who would get an inflatable hot-tub are the same type of people who are replacing their lawn with astro-turf.

>>3377
I believe they specifically say that they have to go on soft ground - I imagine on hard ground, they're a bit easy to puncture if a small stone or something is underneath.

>>3419
Yeah but they don't have a drive-thru Greggs.

>>3420

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/not-drill-newcastle-first-drive-14750059.amp

Soon.

>>3418

I'll be at the nautical college and I hammered the cheap boozing out when I was 18 - I'm more likely to take a book to the pub or study-drink than go out to the nightclubs. I used to work in clubs and it's given me a bit of an aversion to ever going back to that environment again! I'd join a lot of the students once or twice, but I'm honestly more likely to chat to the bouncers.

I love live music, and I play myself too. I'm bringing a couple of guitars with me, so I'd relish the chance to join in at a session or play at an open mic night. I've played in bands in a number of genres - noise rock, abba-influenced pop, hardcore punk. Anywhere I can get involved with bands, I'm happy to hear about.

Jonny Decker. I'm from a place with a similar character - Tam Cupboard (RIP).

Also, I know not to call people Geordies in South Shields, but is sand dancer really the preferred nomenclature?

I'll look into the metro pass - thanks for the heads up.

>>3422

Fair play on the club thing, it was great to get a proper binge drink on back in the day but I'd agree with you these days.

There's a few nice open mic nights, there's a new one at Passing Clouds, and there's one at Wilders that's been going on every wednesday for at least 20 years, there's one at Rosies, though I've never been, I've just seen my mate's played there before, and there's two a week at the Old George - all fairly standard open mic type things. There's also Tyneside Irish Centre near Chinatown, and that has a proper session type thing going on. I can link all these places if you want but I'm sure you'll find them. Pubs are always looking for artists, too.

Newcastle has a great little band scene that I was a part of for a long time, and you'll surely meet people if you hit open mics, but also get yourself to J.G Windows music shop, they have a bulletin board there where people recruit/start bands. I'm sure there's an internet thing for it these days too, somewhere. Newcastle college has a great, and massive music course so there's never any shortage. I probably still know some organisers if you ever do get a band going.

There's two fantastic local magazine/guide things with loads of information in them, and have been the heart of the band scene there forever. http://narcmagazine.com and http://www.thecrackmagazine.com. The latter used to be the cooler one, but I'm too old to know which is now. You'll find paper copies of these almost everywhere in town, anyway.

Sand dancer is definitely the term and people will always know what you mean, but I'm not sure it's that commonly used. You'll probably impress a few old men in pubs with it but that's about it.

I had forgotten how much goes on up here until this post, to be honest. I've only just moved back up myself. I hope you enjoy it.

>>3422
I miss Tam’s dulcet tones. He once sang me a song because I bought him bucky, I’m 112% sure the words were just “shadabong, verifor, I love you!”

2 years and it's basically being consumed.

Wonder what was happening here; afaik they don't usually allow people to go back and get their effects.

>>3396

From what I've read, residents were officially allowed to return for a two hour visit and retrieve one small bag of personal belongings. In practice, a lot of people sneaked in to the exclusion zone without permission. Items removed from the zone shouldn't pose a significant risk to health as long as they're thoroughly washed.

>>3386
Yes to both - it is a lot warmer, lots of things grow there that won't in other parts of the country. It is very fucking white and it is ruined by tourism. Reminds me of Florida.

Never, ever visit Lands End it is exactly like the Florida Keys - beautiful countryside ruined by people setting up tourist trap businesses of the worst kind.

I think North Cornwall is probably the place to be, or perhaps Devon.

Come to Northumberland. It's cold, desolate and not as wet as Cumbria.

>>3386
That picture is cracking. I want a hill throne.

>>3389
I'd feel a bit exposed and wouldn't be able to go.

>>3380
> Lots of students and shops that have "Challenge 25" (I kid you not) for fags and booze.

I meant that as a sort of caveat by the way, not as a selling point.

Selling points are as the other the lad said the great architectural beauty, the decent pubs, decent places to get a curry and, well yeah, foreign student fanny. Also you can get a bus from there to stone henge and try to do ket there off an oyster card but lose it all because it's too windy and live forever with the regret that you'll probably never tick Stone Henge off your "Global sites of occult power that I've bumped ket at" ticklist. Or maybe that's just me.

>>3379
Agreed - Bath would also be my choice of that lot. Exeter wasn't bad at all when I visited recently too.

The question of moving to brighton is really a lifestyle one. If you are the sort of person that wants the green party hippy lifestyle that place offers then it is an obvious choice, Bristol is a watered down version of that with homeless everywhere, if you don't want the lifestyle Brighton is selling I'd go Bath, I've never been to Exter so I don't know what it is like.

Exeter is lovely, but it's in the middle of fucking nowhere. You might as well move to Norwich.

Bristol is a surprisingly picturesque crack den.

Liverpool is alright if you don't mind Scousers. Personally I find them to be cloyingly sentimental, but a lot of people like that sort of thing. It's only 50 minutes on the train to Manchester and 2:16 to London, which is nice.

Brighton is full of lovely tosspots. Do you like kale? I hope you like kale.

>>3378
Any particular reason for narrowing it down to a specific set of shitholes plus Bath?