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I love and hate London in equal measure. I mean, it a fantastic city, but its a real pain in thr fricking arse as well.

Central London and the outskirts (I live in a nice part, Hampton, sorta south west and basically Surrey) is nice but I agree, it can be a right drag.

Council tax fucking kills me. I remember where I used to live in Hounslow borough there is an area where the borough border is separated by a crossroads, one side of the crossroad you paid about £100 council tax to Hounslow, the other side £140 to Richmond as they have one of the highest rates in the country. Fucking ridiculous. I'm talking a distance of less than 20 metres here and thats worth an extra £40 in council tax!

I hate Watford as a town but I would sooner live there any day again. I am strongly considering it lets put it that way.

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Central London and the outskirts (I live in a nice part, Hampton, sorta south west and basically Surrey) is nice but I agree, it can be a right drag.

Council tax fucking kills me. I remember where I used to live in Hounslow borough there is an area where the borough border is separated by a crossroads, one side of the crossroad you paid about £100 council tax to Hounslow, the other side £140 to Richmond as they have one of the highest rates in the country. Fucking ridiculous. I'm talking a distance of less than 20 metres here and thats worth an extra £40 in council tax!

I hate Watford as a town but I would sooner live there any day again. I am strongly considering it lets put it that way.

Wasted five years of my life living in Walthamstow E.London.An absolute shithole.Will never live in or near London again .mind you was a long a time ago so it's probably changed hopefully ..

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Wasted five years of my life living in Walthamstow E.London.An absolute shithole.Will never live in or near London again .mind you was a long a time ago so it's probably changed hopefully ..

Nope, last time I was there the 'stow was still a shithole!

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Central London and the outskirts (I live in a nice part, Hampton, sorta south west and basically Surrey) is nice but I agree, it can be a right drag.

Council tax fucking kills me. I remember where I used to live in Hounslow borough there is an area where the borough border is separated by a crossroads, one side of the crossroad you paid about £100 council tax to Hounslow, the other side £140 to Richmond as they have one of the highest rates in the country. Fucking ridiculous. I'm talking a distance of less than 20 metres here and thats worth an extra £40 in council tax!

I hate Watford as a town but I would sooner live there any day again. I am strongly considering it lets put it that way.

Wasted five years of my life living in Walthamstow E.London.An absolute shithole.Will never live in or near London again .mind you was a long a time ago so it's probably changed hopefully ..

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A whole city being rather specific? I feel I've missed a joke somewhere there.

If not, it was fairly hyped up which is why we chose that as one of our destinations on our interrailing trip. I found it rather disappointing in all fairness. The place that we went that exceeded expectations was Brussels, amazing city which we only initially chose for convenience.

Can I drop you a PM? Doing Interrail this summer and got some questions.

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Overrated stuff:

Pizza in general

The Doors

Brothers cider

The fuck?! (Agree on Pizza though, but its mainly the cheese, which would go on my extremely overated list :P)

By the way, bacon is overrated.

I'm ready for the onslaught from all you Ron Swansons out there!

The actual fuckery?! Bacon is brilliant! There is no food that can't be improved without a rasher or two of bacon added! (apart from Bacon Bits at the Hippy Chippy, terrible!)

And East London is very overrated, unless you're going as far as, say, Leyton, which is just a shit hole. Sums up London that: overrated or shithole. Sometimes both.

Lies, East London is wonderful!

I have seriously noticed though that people who don't live in London love the place whereas people who live here are sick of it.

Not true, I live in London and still love. Its a spectacular city, full of variety.

Hence the rents and house prices, which are shit :(

Wasted five years of my life living in Walthamstow E.London.An absolute shithole.Will never live in or near London again .mind you was a long a time ago so it's probably changed hopefully ..

Its got a Grillstock now and is slowly being gentified since the Olympics, so depends what you class as a shithole :P

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Can't see them getting a stall, silly really though people going on about commercialism though, hundreds of food vendors on the site that are less ethical and get away year on year selling terrible shite classed as food.

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The Doors aren't that good though really. All their work sounds incredibly dated.

Maybe if you were around at the time it makes a difference :P

Some peoples ears just dont work properly, The Doors stuff still sounds awesome.

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