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[Michael Coumas]

Sorry folks, I have lived in a lot of places in a lot of Countries and contrary to one or two contributors can honestly say that London (taken as a whole) is probably the last place on earth with the exception of Lagos, Nigeria or Kingston, Jamaica that I would want to live. I occasionally have needed to visit there but honestly the place is the backside of England. I know there are nice areas as well as bad but we must generalise here. Perhaps I am biased as I do not like Cities or Towns; I do not suffer fools gladly and will not allow retards to impose themselves on me or my family.
Towns & Cities in the west appear to have a monopoly on morons, a shame really as they are depriving a lot of villages of a decent idiot.
Leon mentioned that he loved Cyprus and England & wished to see more. There are many places in Britain that are lovely not least Lundy Island, The Scilly Isles, The Channel Islands, Highlands of Scotland, The North Hampshire downs, the list is endless but London is not even on the same planet in terms of scale. Similarly I wouldn’t give you 2 cents for Protaras, Larnaca, Limassol or Paphos town either. Give me a quiet village any time, I then have the choice to visit the noise and dirt and pollution and idiots but best of all I can leave them all behind and go home to peace and tranquillity.

[cannedmoose]

Michael, are you sure you're not me posting under a different pseudonym... agreed with every word of that! You've been to Lagos too? My God, what a place... never ever again...

Another place in the UK to visit if you've never been is Snowdonia and North Wales... absolutely stunning. Stay away from the tacky coastal resorts and go inland. Or go to the Lleyn Peninsula (the one that sticks out from under Anglesey). We go there twice a year and stay in a small cottage, no mobile phone signal, 5 minutes drive from a gorgeous beach and about 100 miles of trails to walk around the coastline (most of it cliffs, beaches and rolling hills).

[city]

wow, the first pic is UK??? I never knew there is places like that!

[sk]

city....accidents do happen!!!! (just joking)

[city]

[demetriou_74]

sorry. London is the best place to live. as soon as i can i am getting my flat in Mayfair. london is sop much fun. if you ever say your bored in london you deserve to be shot

[devil]

Sorry, I agree with Michael 500% and some more. London is a sheer hell-hole (and Devil should know!). It has nothing, zero, zilch, going for it. The lasy time I was there, about 5 years ago, I went to a concert: the ignoramus next to me (a Sloane ranger type female) rustled toffee papers throughout the concert and kept whispering to her friend, obtaining dirty looks from several others. Then, in the interval she declared in a loud, affected tone, the piano soloist played absolutely divinely, when it was clearly an off-day with many notes lost under the piano and he even lost his place in the slow movement, and the conductor adroitly had to rescue him. At least two mobile phones went off during the concert and one guy actually had a 5 minute conversation in the hall.

There is only one city in the UK that I know of where the inhabitants are reasonably behaved, on the whole, and are not all painfully pig-ignorant, and that is Edinburgh. However, I would not like to live there for climatic reasons (I hate wind!).

Of the largish cities I know reasonably intimately, the following are definitely on my never on any account list:

London,
Cairo
New Delhi
Bangalore
Bandar Seri Begawan
Tokyo
NYC
SF
LA
Miami
Chicago
Manila
Nicosia
Zurich
Frankfurt
Paris
Brussels
Milan
Athens

The following are on my possibles list, but preferably in a village 10 - 25 km outside:
Edinburgh
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur
Kuching
Osaka/Kyoto
Lausanne
Toulouse
Seattle
San Diego
Salzburg

[demetriou_74]

L O N D O N

[Michael Coumas]

Demetriou – I’m not so sure the question was about boredom, was it not about the best place to live? I am never bored in London the pace is too hectic but there again I could never get bored in Bombay or Kuala Lumpur. I have never been to New York but I imagine the same would apply there. In any event if it is a flat in Mayfair you are considering then I am sorry that is way out of my league so perhaps London may rightly appear a wonderful place to you in which case I sincerely wish you all that your endeavours provide and long may you live to enjoy them.
Cannedmoose – I concur with your comment on Lagos it must be the only place where one has to “dash” officials to get in and out of the place and where to communicate anything regarding the transfer of ‘Nira’ by way of remuneration one had to refer to the currency as paperclips. Perhaps times have changed but I don’t think I’ll take the chance.
I have never visited North Wales, it looks nice and I am currently living but a short distance from it. Yesterday I was near to Wrexham trying to source some equipment for a project I have on the go near Limassol and I could plainly see the Welsh mountains. I tend to spend as much of my spare time as I can back home although this time of year airfares are getting expensive. I need to be there in 3 weeks time and again around mid August but I am almost resigned to just going in August with the family, quickly conclude my business and have a holiday / rest. Best regards to you and yours.

[city]

well, devil! You must have had a very interesting life so far, considering all the places you know and have been.... Respect.