Mate, London is the city that, unless you are minted, you need to leave when you get to your 30's and mid 30's.
London is a great city to be in when you're young, without responsibilities, without kids, and you don't mind living in a small room with exorbitant rents that eats most of your money, and all the other high costs, because the excitement and cosmopolitanism more than makes up for it. You get high on the buzz and happenings, the people you meet, the things you do.
Its lifestyle and quality of life. Unless you're minted, when you want a house with a garden, a bigger flat, have kids, it changes.
Rich people in London have it sorted - they get the lifestyle and the good things of London, and can insulate themselves from the costs. No doubt about it. London is one of the greatest cities on earth. But you need money, and the urban excitement, the raw edge of it, and the allure of that, competes with wanting different things in life, when you get older.
hmmm sounds like my daily life, except for the fucked up shit Islam brought into my life once it left.
+1 i love London
