London is one of the greatest cities in the world. You can achieve anything you want here. Its fast paced and always exciting. You can never get bored in London. If you can live in London you can live anywhere in the world.
I like your last point, "If you can live in London, you can live anywhere in the world". Financially and mentally a massive test so living anywhere else will probably feel easier, in a way.
Living in fear of being "shanked" isn't the kind of excitement that I'm after! Living by the sea in Torbay with easy access to Exeter, Plymouth and Cornwall is a way nicer mainland UK lifestyle compared to London imho with lots of great people and things to do! More city orientated people might prefer Bournemouth/Poole or Brighton type of seaside life but honestly I feel London's more the kind of place to occasionally visit for the day or a weekend than to actually live and work in. You say you can achieve anything you want to in London but don't provide any real life examples. Furthermore is there really any evidence that for most a great deal can be achieved almost anywhere particularly with online type of work. Really CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING! With "remote" working probably a lot of people are capable of being able to achieve quite a lot without needing to live and work in the capital or even the UK at all!
I've lived in 14 major cities and London is now my long term home. It is the BEST city in the world. Of course, there are things that could be improved but no city is perfect.
You are quite right, no city will be perfect and offer both positives and negatives. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I am glad London is your happy place!
Needs fleshing out. Context is everything. London, UK compared to what exactly? The world's a big place. We don't know what your job or profession is, what you pay for rent or mortgage per month, how much monthly disposable income you have. Probably you prefer to be private but huge generalities are pretty meaningless and it also has to be said that unless you are on around £100K plus then life in London is utterly miserable and doesn't work for most people. Like I said CONTEXT is everything and that is what we don't have here.
Im a 31 year old Londoner and im about to move to Australia with my Australian wife. Shes been living in London now for 6 years and ive lived here the majority of my life. My thoughts are that London really is a city like no other and I absolutely love it here. Theres so much to do, catering for basically any interest you may have and for someone who wants to get ahead in their career, use it as a base to travle Europe and always have things to do, its perfect. Now where the issues begin is when your life stops being about I want to have fun, I want to explore, I want to focus on my career into the mindset of, ok now I want to raise a family, give them the best quality of life possible and give them the best life i possibly can. This change in priorities makes you see the city in a very different light. Right now I live in a 2 bed flat with my Aussie wife, shes a teacher and im in sales, so not bad jobs at all. However there is no road to us buying a 3 or 4 bed house in an area which is nice to live in here. Our small flat is fine for 2 people but it has a pretty bad mould problem like so many flats and houses in London and is generally not a place i would want to raise a child. The idea of buying in London without a huge amount of family help (which we have some but not enough for a nice place) is totally out of the question. I have basically no friends with children or who are thinking about children because its way too expensive and a lot of London culture is very hedonistic, more about living your own best life. Now the reason we're moving to Australia in a large part is that my wife is part of a big family who live on the Mornington Peninsula just south of Melbourne. They are very family-oriented and have loads of kids. The lifestyle for children, the fantastic government and family support, the ability to be outdoors in much better weather pretty much all year, as well as better pay, less hours to work as a teacher for my wife and generally a more family mindset is what we now so desperately need in our lives. So I'd say and what I can hopefully say to my children one day is: London is one of the greatest cities in the world, I would highly recommend someone in their 20s to at least go and live there for a bit because its so much fun, you have a tonne of career opportunities to get yourself ahead in life, travelling is great from London, the partying is awesome etc. However when you get to your 30s or earlier, if you decide you want to raise a family, you need to seriously consider whether it makes sense to continue living here due to the extreme pressures there are on you here basically due to how expensive it is, how demanding the work is and the poor pay vs some other countries. Bit of an essay there but you said you were interested in other views so I hope this may have been interesting for you :) hope all goes well for you in your life adventures!
You cannot understand what it's like to live in London by just visiting. Honestly you have no idea. I have lived in North West England, Midlands etc. I visited london and thought i understood it. I didn't. It was only until I lived there (I had to open an office there). Move to london live there a few years then make this video. Its really incomparable to the rest of the country and pretty much anywhere on earth. The difference in London is the people. And people is everything. If you're smart it's almost impossible to exist out of London after you have lived there a few years. People living in London are adults, and people outside are not. Its a night and day difference. Obviously I'm generalising. But I'm generally right. Also people who were born in London to those who moved there but I would say every person in the UK should be forced to live in London for a few years just to grew up basically. You can tell when meeting people if they lived in London or not. It's a brain changer and an obvious one. Oh another thing to add is London is even better now than it has ever been, in terms of transport , opportunities, culture, food etc. I have lived in London over a decade and regularly travel around England. Apart from housing and things like pints of beer London is pretty much the same price as manchester Birmingham etc. Also the airqualiy is good. Just look at the statistics. The commuting times are pretty quick and also most lines are not busy. Most of London is quiet. Also thing is in London people walk around. Transport is super easy. It's a lot easier to get around in London than anywhere else in UK. London is very safe, a lot safer than say Liverpool or Coventry where I have been extensively previously. You are honestly talking exactly like you haven't lived in London. It's exactly what people think its like until they live there. Its an astonishing place to live, a true privilege and opportunity. Oh and I probably see more nature than you, I can go to royal parks, most people in England thing intensive farms are countryside, nope. I know manchester very well. It's a joke compared to London. And I say this as a Northerner. It's no way comparable. It's not a world class top five in the world city in London. The lifestyle in London is incredible if you work in the centre, the social scene is amazing, you can have cheap michelin star food for lunch (lunch offers), then go to the worlds best bars after work, see the best art and shows on the weekend. There are more places to go than you can actually try. Its essentially limitless. You simply cannot do this outside of London. It's more car based lifestyle and people go home to watch Eastenders after work rather than going eating a Peruvian tasting menu, followed by a stroll along southbank or whatever and meet some interesting world class people. You won't know this is how it is unless you live in London. You think you do but you dont.
Fair comment. I think it’s clear that we value different things in life and that’s why London works for you and wouldn’t for me. I tried to make the debate balanced but I can quite confidently say, there are many more areas in the UK i would prefer to live than London.
This only applies to corporate people. 50-60% of the population currently live with no savings, 2 jobs, minimum wage, in third world flat conditions(shared). Don't get me started in shared ROOMS. Or how about a hole in the wall with a bed? The job market is awful, I cant find any corporate job despite incredible experience and a recent graduate. This city is beautiful, but its a massive scam.
Yeah but what's your job/profession/skill, monthly rent/mortage and monthly disposable income that makes your lifestyle possible? Probably you prefer to keep all that private but as they say TALK IS CHEAP and in any event CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING! Anyway UNLESS you walk around London with your eyes closed it must be perfectly obvious to you that most people in London and the south east DON'T live the kind of fast paced HIGH END life that you are boasting about and in fact live pretty miserable lives what with the cost of housing and commuting/transport costs! Looks like you've broken into that elite earning class and so of course life looks pretty rosy right!?
I was born in London, lived here for 48 years, apart from 2 in Toronto, but find it’s not as nice as it used to be. Too many people live here, and the transport is overcrowded. I would gladly move to the Sussex coast.
If you're goal is money, then professionals don't need London my G.P earns £125k as a self employed non-salaried. I think London is for lifestyle. I have worked in NW5JR (Baker St) but didn't buy property there. I moved to Midlands and see how other things are better, like schools for children e.g. high & grammar schools. So I moved out at 30 brought up my child is a safer area rural but fresh. He's done well from school and i could sell my £200k for a lot more even go back to London and get a flat for £400k. But I think lifes to short to go back when there's lots of other nice cities around the worlds, as you mentioned. Ty
I think that was definitely a very smart move. There’s so many nicer places in the UK where you can go for the fraction of the cost of London, with a better standard of living too!
Left Manchester at 22 and also never go back. Live in Muswell Hill and could never leave. Apart from property, it costs about the same. Transport is cheaper - bus is £1.65 into central London! Water rates cheaper. Food about the same. Everything on your doorstep. Safe as anywhere and an amazing variety of people and cultures. And I didn’t pay £20m for my flat either
I lived in London because i got a job there. Chelsea and Kensington are really nice areas. Clean, great high street shopping, excellent public transportation. I live in Belgium now. I wouldn't go back to London unless I found high paid work there.
I like this discussion that you have made and i am a fan of london but probably because i have fond memories. i moved as a student and stayed for 9 years in my friends family home in Chiswick so i lived in a nice area rent free in a beautiful home and had a very busy social life and saw family often as its only 1 hour on the train to birmingham. I left to go backpacking overseas after getting tired of the hustle and bustle- i travelled through Australia worked in Singapore and went to Canada on a youth visa. Unfortunately circumstances out of my control meant i had to come back in 2016 and that is when i started to see the UK in a different light...... i was shocked by the foodbanks the salaries in london had gone down every job was £8.00 per hour. In my opinion this current government have brought the UK to its knees. - That said me and my partner we intend on leaving this year to emigrate.
It sounds as though the London you grew up, is slightly different to the London we see today! I’m sure, as you admitted having that privileged upbringing would make everything feel superior to the average person’s experience. I’ve heard many stories of people leaving and coming back…and then leaving again! All the best with wherever live takes you… I hope London does return to its glory days but that seems a long way off, currently.
But jobs were not all paying £8/hour in 2016. That was pretty much minimum wage and it would be more accurate to say the lowest wage paid in 2016 would have been £8/hour. Any job that requires any kind of qualification teachers, nurses, electricians, even bus drivers would clearly command some kind of premium doubly so for anything managerial, professional or financial.
Fair point! If that's your the type of lifestyle your looking for that It works however I always look at things from a happiness and holistic point of view and I don't believe London offers than for the vast majority.
That's alright for some and for you but that's NOT TYPICAL for London and the south east AS A WHOLE is it ? Anyone who isn't aware of this probably goes around with their 👀 WIDE SHUT! Unless you're earning close to SIX figures or a lot more your housing costs as a proportion of your income are likely to be CRIPPLING!
I always say there’s London and then there’s London! Up until about let’s say 20/25 years ago I would have very happily lived in an affluent part of the Capital such as Sloane Square, Belgravia, Marylebone, Mayfair and so on. Not anymore. London, even those desirable sought after areas I have just mentioned are no longer what they once were! London has been bought up by foreigners and has completely lost its charm and identity and has become crime ridden. Very sad! Different story back in the 60s/70s/80s and 90s but all changed for the worse now. Better off living in leafy and semi rural parts of Buckinghamshire or Hertfordshire which have some very desirable towns and villages with stunning detached properties and commute into the capital which in some cases take no more than 20 minutes. Gerrards Cross to Marylebone for example on the Chiltern Line is 20 minutes direct!
Thanks for your comment Robbie. Yes, it is clear that London and the majority of the UK has been on the decline for years now. Considering how much more expensive it is to everywhere else, it makes so much more sense to live in a nicer area outside of London, as you mentioned. Some people still love London and it is very much down to you as an individual, your goals and values.
What was the point of making this video- any of the points you mentioned could be said about any major capital city. You haven't even lived in London so these are all just generic points and based on no real experience
Hey, thanks for your comment. I would personally disagree that I could be speaking of any major capital city. London virtually makes up the whole of the UK economy and the cost of living is incomparable to anywhere else in the UK. Yes I have never lived there personally, but I don’t think that necessarily means I don’t have a reasonable insight into the situation.
Only people who like living in London are people currently in London. Half of those that live there would not like to be either. It's nonsense that the mass of the UK public want to live there otherwise the population of London would outweigh that of the rest of the UK. Give me Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cheltenham, Oxford, Cambridge, York etc over London anyday, the list goes on. Most of what you've said for people internal to the UK is a fallacy imo.
I've spoken to many people are of all different generations and the general response has been that they have told me to leave the UK whilst young as there are not the opportunities like there use to be anymore, unfortunately. I agree that if you did a survey on the general public of the UK, they would give you a list of places in the UK, where they would prefer to live.
I think this video aligns with your previous video about generally why living in the uk sucks nowadays. Absolutely this country is never as is used to be once. I handed my resignation recently and I’m leaving very soon. This country is for very very rich people who have properties. The system is designed for them. Even if this stupid Kir Starmer wins. I don’t think he’s gonna fix a lot of things. It’s wonderful to hear an English person making critiques for his country. I make a lot to my country and that’s how you love your country. Many of my colleagues are ridiculously patriotic, although they’re from the working class they can’t even start a mortgage in this system 😂. Keep it up mate, support your content
Hi Ahmed, I appreciate your comment! I think we can relate a lot on our views of the UK! Yes I thought I'd make this video in align to the 'Why Is The UK So Miserable' video, which got a lot of interesting feedback. I think you are making a very wise decision because I do think everyday people are looking at the UK and really considering, what's keeping me here? Anyway, I wish you all the best of your journey mate, any idea of where you are thinking of heading too?
@@thomasmh Thanks a lot mate. I’m heading to Saudi Arabia where I’m gonna start my startup there with my friends. I believe it has a big potential and the downsides here just don’t exist there. The only difficulty is the very hot summer.
London is one of the greatest cities in the world. You can achieve anything you want here. Its fast paced and always exciting. You can never get bored in London. If you can live in London you can live anywhere in the world.
I like your last point, "If you can live in London, you can live anywhere in the world". Financially and mentally a massive test so living anywhere else will probably feel easier, in a way.
Living in fear of being "shanked" isn't the kind of excitement that I'm after! Living by the sea in Torbay with easy access to Exeter, Plymouth and Cornwall is a way nicer mainland UK lifestyle compared to London imho with lots of great people and things to do! More city orientated people might prefer Bournemouth/Poole or Brighton type of seaside life but honestly I feel London's more the kind of place to occasionally visit for the day or a weekend than to actually live and work in. You say you can achieve anything you want to in London but don't provide any real life examples. Furthermore is there really any evidence that for most a great deal can be achieved almost anywhere particularly with online type of work. Really CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING! With "remote" working probably a lot of people are capable of being able to achieve quite a lot without needing to live and work in the capital or even the UK at all!
I've lived in 14 major cities and London is now my long term home. It is the BEST city in the world. Of course, there are things that could be improved but no city is perfect.
You are quite right, no city will be perfect and offer both positives and negatives. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I am glad London is your happy place!
Needs fleshing out. Context is everything. London, UK compared to what exactly? The world's a big place. We don't know what your job or profession is, what you pay for rent or mortgage per month, how much monthly disposable income you have. Probably you prefer to be private but huge generalities are pretty meaningless and it also has to be said that unless you are on around £100K plus then life in London is utterly miserable and doesn't work for most people. Like I said CONTEXT is everything and that is what we don't have here.
Im a 31 year old Londoner and im about to move to Australia with my Australian wife. Shes been living in London now for 6 years and ive lived here the majority of my life.
My thoughts are that London really is a city like no other and I absolutely love it here. Theres so much to do, catering for basically any interest you may have and for someone who wants to get ahead in their career, use it as a base to travle Europe and always have things to do, its perfect.
Now where the issues begin is when your life stops being about I want to have fun, I want to explore, I want to focus on my career into the mindset of, ok now I want to raise a family, give them the best quality of life possible and give them the best life i possibly can. This change in priorities makes you see the city in a very different light.
Right now I live in a 2 bed flat with my Aussie wife, shes a teacher and im in sales, so not bad jobs at all. However there is no road to us buying a 3 or 4 bed house in an area which is nice to live in here. Our small flat is fine for 2 people but it has a pretty bad mould problem like so many flats and houses in London and is generally not a place i would want to raise a child. The idea of buying in London without a huge amount of family help (which we have some but not enough for a nice place) is totally out of the question. I have basically no friends with children or who are thinking about children because its way too expensive and a lot of London culture is very hedonistic, more about living your own best life.
Now the reason we're moving to Australia in a large part is that my wife is part of a big family who live on the Mornington Peninsula just south of Melbourne. They are very family-oriented and have loads of kids. The lifestyle for children, the fantastic government and family support, the ability to be outdoors in much better weather pretty much all year, as well as better pay, less hours to work as a teacher for my wife and generally a more family mindset is what we now so desperately need in our lives.
So I'd say and what I can hopefully say to my children one day is: London is one of the greatest cities in the world, I would highly recommend someone in their 20s to at least go and live there for a bit because its so much fun, you have a tonne of career opportunities to get yourself ahead in life, travelling is great from London, the partying is awesome etc. However when you get to your 30s or earlier, if you decide you want to raise a family, you need to seriously consider whether it makes sense to continue living here due to the extreme pressures there are on you here basically due to how expensive it is, how demanding the work is and the poor pay vs some other countries.
Bit of an essay there but you said you were interested in other views so I hope this may have been interesting for you :) hope all goes well for you in your life adventures!
Lol Australia is a prison state, especially Victoria
You cannot understand what it's like to live in London by just visiting. Honestly you have no idea. I have lived in North West England, Midlands etc. I visited london and thought i understood it. I didn't. It was only until I lived there (I had to open an office there).
Move to london live there a few years then make this video.
Its really incomparable to the rest of the country and pretty much anywhere on earth. The difference in London is the people. And people is everything.
If you're smart it's almost impossible to exist out of London after you have lived there a few years. People living in London are adults, and people outside are not. Its a night and day difference. Obviously I'm generalising. But I'm generally right. Also people who were born in London to those who moved there but I would say every person in the UK should be forced to live in London for a few years just to grew up basically. You can tell when meeting people if they lived in London or not. It's a brain changer and an obvious one.
Oh another thing to add is London is even better now than it has ever been, in terms of transport , opportunities, culture, food etc. I have lived in London over a decade and regularly travel around England.
Apart from housing and things like pints of beer London is pretty much the same price as manchester Birmingham etc. Also the airqualiy is good. Just look at the statistics.
The commuting times are pretty quick and also most lines are not busy. Most of London is quiet. Also thing is in London people walk around. Transport is super easy. It's a lot easier to get around in London than anywhere else in UK. London is very safe, a lot safer than say Liverpool or Coventry where I have been extensively previously.
You are honestly talking exactly like you haven't lived in London. It's exactly what people think its like until they live there. Its an astonishing place to live, a true privilege and opportunity. Oh and I probably see more nature than you, I can go to royal parks, most people in England thing intensive farms are countryside, nope.
I know manchester very well. It's a joke compared to London. And I say this as a Northerner. It's no way comparable. It's not a world class top five in the world city in London.
The lifestyle in London is incredible if you work in the centre, the social scene is amazing, you can have cheap michelin star food for lunch (lunch offers), then go to the worlds best bars after work, see the best art and shows on the weekend. There are more places to go than you can actually try. Its essentially limitless. You simply cannot do this outside of London. It's more car based lifestyle and people go home to watch Eastenders after work rather than going eating a Peruvian tasting menu, followed by a stroll along southbank or whatever and meet some interesting world class people. You won't know this is how it is unless you live in London. You think you do but you dont.
Fair comment. I think it’s clear that we value different things in life and that’s why London works for you and wouldn’t for me. I tried to make the debate balanced but I can quite confidently say, there are many more areas in the UK i would prefer to live than London.
this is rubbish imo
This only applies to corporate people. 50-60% of the population currently live with no savings, 2 jobs, minimum wage, in third world flat conditions(shared). Don't get me started in shared ROOMS. Or how about a hole in the wall with a bed? The job market is awful, I cant find any corporate job despite incredible experience and a recent graduate. This city is beautiful, but its a massive scam.
Yeah but what's your job/profession/skill, monthly rent/mortage and monthly disposable income that makes your lifestyle possible? Probably you prefer to keep all that private but as they say TALK IS CHEAP and in any event CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING! Anyway UNLESS you walk around London with your eyes closed it must be perfectly obvious to you that most people in London and the south east DON'T live the kind of fast paced HIGH END life that you are boasting about and in fact live pretty miserable lives what with the cost of housing and commuting/transport costs! Looks like you've broken into that elite earning class and so of course life looks pretty rosy right!?
I was born in London, lived here for 48 years, apart from 2 in Toronto, but find it’s not as nice as it used to be.
Too many people live here, and the transport is overcrowded.
I would gladly move to the Sussex coast.
If you're goal is money, then professionals don't need London my G.P earns £125k as a self employed non-salaried. I think London is for lifestyle. I have worked in NW5JR (Baker St) but didn't buy property there. I moved to Midlands and see how other things are better, like schools for children e.g. high & grammar schools. So I moved out at 30 brought up my child is a safer area rural but fresh. He's done well from school and i could sell my £200k for a lot more even go back to London and get a flat for £400k. But I think lifes to short to go back when there's lots of other nice cities around the worlds, as you mentioned. Ty
I think that was definitely a very smart move. There’s so many nicer places in the UK where you can go for the fraction of the cost of London, with a better standard of living too!
As a northerner I came to London 5 yrs ago and I will never go back
You enjoying the London lifestyle?
Left Manchester at 22 and also never go back. Live in Muswell Hill and could never leave. Apart from property, it costs about the same. Transport is cheaper - bus is £1.65 into central London! Water rates cheaper. Food about the same. Everything on your doorstep. Safe as anywhere and an amazing variety of people and cultures. And I didn’t pay £20m for my flat either
I lived in London because i got a job there. Chelsea and Kensington are really nice areas. Clean, great high street shopping, excellent public transportation. I live in Belgium now. I wouldn't go back to London unless I found high paid work there.
I like this discussion that you have made and i am a fan of london but probably because i have fond memories. i moved as a student and stayed for 9 years in my friends family home in Chiswick so i lived in a nice area rent free in a beautiful home and had a very busy social life and saw family often as its only 1 hour on the train to birmingham.
I left to go backpacking overseas after getting tired of the hustle and bustle- i travelled through Australia worked in Singapore and went to Canada on a youth visa.
Unfortunately circumstances out of my control meant i had to come back in 2016 and that is when i started to see the UK in a different light...... i was shocked by the foodbanks the salaries in london had gone down every job was £8.00 per hour. In my opinion this current government have brought the UK to its knees. - That said me and my partner we intend on leaving this year to emigrate.
It sounds as though the London you grew up, is slightly different to the London we see today!
I’m sure, as you admitted having that privileged upbringing would make everything feel superior to the average person’s experience.
I’ve heard many stories of people leaving and coming back…and then leaving again!
All the best with wherever live takes you… I hope London does return to its glory days but that seems a long way off, currently.
agreed@@thomasmh
But jobs were not all paying £8/hour in 2016. That was pretty much minimum wage and it would be more accurate to say the lowest wage paid in 2016 would have been £8/hour. Any job that requires any kind of qualification teachers, nurses, electricians, even bus drivers would clearly command some kind of premium doubly so for anything managerial, professional or financial.
London is the financial capital! Most jobs, most job sectors, largest city and best wages in the UK.
Fair point! If that's your the type of lifestyle your looking for that It works however I always look at things from a happiness and holistic point of view and I don't believe London offers than for the vast majority.
That's alright for some and for you but that's NOT TYPICAL for London and the south east AS A WHOLE is it ? Anyone who isn't aware of this probably goes around with their 👀 WIDE SHUT! Unless you're earning close to SIX figures or a lot more your housing costs as a proportion of your income are likely to be CRIPPLING!
London is overrated in my opinion. It’s very aggressive, expensive, and people aren’t as friendly compared to other parts of the U.K.
I always say there’s London and then there’s London! Up until about let’s say 20/25 years ago I would have very happily lived in an affluent part of the Capital such as Sloane Square, Belgravia, Marylebone, Mayfair and so on. Not anymore. London, even those desirable sought after areas I have just mentioned are no longer what they once were! London has been bought up by foreigners and has completely lost its charm and identity and has become crime ridden. Very sad! Different story back in the 60s/70s/80s and 90s but all changed for the worse now. Better off living in leafy and semi rural parts of Buckinghamshire or Hertfordshire which have some very desirable towns and villages with stunning detached properties and commute into the capital which in some cases take no more than 20 minutes. Gerrards Cross to Marylebone for example on the Chiltern Line is 20 minutes direct!
Thanks for your comment Robbie. Yes, it is clear that London and the majority of the UK has been on the decline for years now. Considering how much more expensive it is to everywhere else, it makes so much more sense to live in a nicer area outside of London, as you mentioned. Some people still love London and it is very much down to you as an individual, your goals and values.
What was the point of making this video- any of the points you mentioned could be said about any major capital city. You haven't even lived in London so these are all just generic points and based on no real experience
Hey, thanks for your comment. I would personally disagree that I could be speaking of any major capital city. London virtually makes up the whole of the UK economy and the cost of living is incomparable to anywhere else in the UK. Yes I have never lived there personally, but I don’t think that necessarily means I don’t have a reasonable insight into the situation.
100k is very standard in London. its the big leagues.
100%. For me the Lifestyle inflation in London, makes no sense to move there
@@thomasmh yeah it’s mad lol.
The Rebel MC loves London.
Londonstan
Only people who like living in London are people currently in London. Half of those that live there would not like to be either.
It's nonsense that the mass of the UK public want to live there otherwise the population of London would outweigh that of the rest of the UK. Give me Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cheltenham, Oxford, Cambridge, York etc over London anyday, the list goes on.
Most of what you've said for people internal to the UK is a fallacy imo.
I've spoken to many people are of all different generations and the general response has been that they have told me to leave the UK whilst young as there are not the opportunities like there use to be anymore, unfortunately.
I agree that if you did a survey on the general public of the UK, they would give you a list of places in the UK, where they would prefer to live.
left london in 2023 for manchester
Happier/ better lifestyle?
wayy better, live next to farm/animals/beautiful scenery - it's cheaper, and people are a lot more friendly/communal@@thomasmh
@@DarkerLtd I’m glad you’re happier mate!
I was there as a foreign student student between 2011-2016 with some time off. Wasnt bad but wouldnt go back there.
I think this video aligns with your previous video about generally why living in the uk sucks nowadays.
Absolutely this country is never as is used to be once. I handed my resignation recently and I’m leaving very soon. This country is for very very rich people who have properties. The system is designed for them. Even if this stupid Kir Starmer wins. I don’t think he’s gonna fix a lot of things.
It’s wonderful to hear an English person making critiques for his country. I make a lot to my country and that’s how you love your country. Many of my colleagues are ridiculously patriotic, although they’re from the working class they can’t even start a mortgage in this system 😂.
Keep it up mate, support your content
Hi Ahmed, I appreciate your comment! I think we can relate a lot on our views of the UK!
Yes I thought I'd make this video in align to the 'Why Is The UK So Miserable' video, which got a lot of interesting feedback.
I think you are making a very wise decision because I do think everyday people are looking at the UK and really considering, what's keeping me here?
Anyway, I wish you all the best of your journey mate, any idea of where you are thinking of heading too?
@@thomasmh Thanks a lot mate. I’m heading to Saudi Arabia where I’m gonna start my startup there with my friends. I believe it has a big potential and the downsides here just don’t exist there. The only difficulty is the very hot summer.
Since you're drawn to the Middle East would you consider Dubai/UAE for its tax advantages for your start-up?
Full of crap
Okay bro
guy has 90s boyband haircut.
your probably on the waiting list for a hair transplant
@@lucyholmes-qd7se lol, you couldnt be more wrong.
hater
Well you’re hating on this video no?