What It's Really Like Living in London, England 🇬🇧 

Yes I like London sir I can speak Finnish English (British) 101% Thai 99% Italian 99% Polish 99% Spanish 99%

you're a racist

Yup. The diversity of it. You can buy all kinds of food - best, thing, is halal food! The coffee shops, the book shops, the shopping centres, Romford centre at Xmas time, the train services, etc etc What I don't like - crime rate and some streets are too messy

Haha so true

Visited London to stay for a holiday - Vacation to my cousins and being from Scotland i found local people the most ignorant people within whole of UK ..went for 2 weeks and stayed 2 nights went back to Scotland and would never go back to London again very ignorant and infriendly .

And boring

So impressive. Cool guy.

Damn he's sharp regards Eire32

@@benmacdui9328 I'm sure you're so interesting.

Than most of people!

He looked incredible for 90 ! Can't be many 90 year olds heading into the centre of London on their own for a day out.

plus he's on social media as well

He looks great! He is a walking history, a witness of many events. Would be great to interview him

Certainly not 60’s but definitely mid 70’s but yeah he looks great for his age.

Yeah because he doesn't actually live in London. People who quote that nonsense old line "He who tires of London tires of life" are usually old folks like this who have moved way out to places like Devon, where you can have a much finer quality of life. Most people retire out of London due to the fact that it is a very difficult place to be at any age, but especially as an older person.

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wtf is wrong with u

The sheer stupidity...

Lol

Didn't he just.

He looks 20 years younger.

Areas of London have the best life expectancies in Europe . Camden 93.8 average.

But very miserable with it.

I'd guess he was 20 years younger . Wow

londons density is like half of new york or paris and other smaller european cities, my friend from austria described living in zone 2 as 'rural' haha, the COST tho, the wages just aren't enough

Believe me, zone 2 is hardly rural still pretty dense with plenty of apartment blocks. Unlike Paris though there are quite a few nice houses in the inner city ( but all ridiculously expensive)

Agree Londonstan is great

what about all the blacks?

@Matías Tacaliti Londons fucked mate. Like the rest of the country

Berlin before the war too.....nothing the same anymore thats life

@@dagmarvandoren9364 Cities are a tale of two halves; the rich and the poor. I would rather be poor in a town than a city as a smaller community can still maintain inclusivity. London is a magic city, but it an amusement park rather than somewhere people live in any functional sense.

Money makes anywhere tolerable.

if you have a wallet,phone and a watch. you get culturally enriched at knife point, Then stabbed,

Yes true London requires lot of money just only to survive ! It cost at least 1400 pounds to survive in London whether in a hostel or in a sharing it means just for a roof above your head an oyster and for food

How nice !!!Thank you!

A man tired of London is a man who tired of a communist 3rd world $hit hole.

It was Oscar Wilde not Johson.

@@dawnduskwinter No. Wrong.

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." - Samuel Johnson

Well he left and lives in Devon now...

Lost some of its charm? It’s lost everything

Hello Francinesi, how are you doing today.

sorry Andrew. we have failed you and many others. we live in the ashes of our civilisation but we will be great again

I am also disabled, I was thinking of moving to London for my further studies. This is very sad to hear that something like this is happening there.

English bottom of the pile in London.

God bless you. Sorry to see London gone. Sad.

I'm Pakistani And have lived here for nearly 40 years,I hate it, people Are so aggressive and Sad,I can't Walk down The local high street without at least 5 people giving me stares for no reason, The exact same thing happens on the train, I don't have a beard, am not religious ,so I don't know what These people's problem Is, I have visited Scotland, Dublin And oxford and never had This problem, only miserable London Yesterday I was eating alone in. Restaurant And This woman was begging for money,I ignored her And three stranger's said I was rude, unbelievable

Thanks Sophia!

@Krishna patel I don't think anyone cares. Grit your teeth and stop whining

Excessive immigration and tourism are not compatible with progress and quality of life.

I've visited London the poor way and, 2 years later the posh way. Both times the city and its lovable people swept me off my feet! It was my first encounters with the realities & extremes of the class system. It didn't seem to matter what their circumstances, all Londoners have a way of taking visitors under their wing.

House sharing becoming more of the norm is depressing. If you can't afford your own place it is likely you can't pay taxes to support the massive infrastructure in Great Britain. Tories are doing everything in their power to allow the wealthy to pay as few taxes as possible. The result will ultimately an erosion of the quality of life.

James Corbett Why wouldn't you go to museums They are FREE.

@@daneelolivaw602 True, but trains and buses aren’t. Days out cost money. Also hard when you work six days a week and have to do chores on your day off.

Camden is North of the river and still incredibly raw compared to adjacent neighbourhoods

Big up lewisham

I need online job in London please help me

Yeah but the rents and house prices have come completely insane

You cant walk anywhere. London is huge and it takes hours to walk from north to south

​@@HonestMan112eh bien Londres est grand on peut marcher partout. Faut pas dire n'importe quoi.

We lived in nw1 when my dad was in banking for bnp Paribas on the same road as the bank. It was great as he was 1 min walk away but bad because even in nw1 there was ebonics being spoken by youth and road man degenerates once in a while walking past. They should be put in walled off areas away from humanity

wait what? you walk from king's cross to stratford?

Shitol init pal

Good success story

@@reuberndoesthingsthathemig1025 Yeah that joke is too irrelevant and old. London is the best city on the planet and everyone who has lived there should agree or they have something wrong with em

Thanks Maria!

The people killing each other,the people stealing watches,cars,wallets,gay people, stupid people,their accent.

London is pretty overrated compared to New York or Tokyo

Ohh I like Toronto how can I move am from 🇸🇴somalia😭😭😭😭😭😭🫂

@Richard Schiffman what

@@nawalppeppe9782 Don't come, we don't want your kind here.

@@cloudzifydirty english racist

Yep! Like Richmond, Twickenham, Teddington, Kingston, Hampton.

Go further and you'll find actual indigenous English people ...they do exist!

@@kashd4668 why not tower hamlets... acton perhaps or maybe ealing...

@@benitolazio8193 Found the racist... Just shut up bro

@@kashd4668 Dont just stay in the posh areas, you wont get normal londoners' insights from those parts

Same to you :)

Totally agree with all your recommended destinations. And, even about doing 10 more such videos just in London. It certainly swept me off my feet each time I stopped. The stories I could tell...

York is better York is real England not that garbage of a city that is London York is an ancient city to

Agreed

@@Takeawayinataxi London is a shithole. It's not even British, it's an extension of India/Pakistan. No thanks. When I go to the UK I want to meet the people descended from the people whose namesake is the country's.

Not as loud and annoying like the American version

Thanks Feigang!

Why? Maybe you’re just not confident enough to. New Yorker’s are friendly

As many said ok if you have the luxury of having money all the time ..but even with much money London id never venture inside ..I much prefer the country side with fresh air to breath in and not breath in the fumes of London air for sure ..No much prefer clean air and tranquil with great surroundings with Lochs and Mountains🚵 of the best scenery UK has to offer.. And thats in Bonnie Scotland in which wins honds doon folks ☝

Blame the immigrants for higher taxes

Cheese

@@benlotus2703 yes I live surrounded by cheese.

Too bad that the English are being replaced

Come to Tokyo. All department store basement floors are high end supermarkets. Sometimes 2basement floors are all food.

@@greeceundiscovered9670 ’Britain’s not racist’ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KvhdMYu9Dwg.html

@@greeceundiscovered9670 same with white brits in the media, sad how others see it but either dont care or get off on it

Then he said he lives in Devon.

Pretty much short sighted. comments Negative opinions from people who never lived there? Maybe they are accurate opinions not based on prejudice? I lived in the East end, and that changed drastically over 20 years as the Docklands Regeneration forced a lot of the older residents out. Getting around is cheap and easy and there is always something on no matter what day of the week. But you need a very good occupation to live in the city, much like any other metropolis it is expensive.

Indeed, he went to London on 2017, simply to attain a degree on MBA otherwise he would forget about advancing on any senior cooperate management. He achieved the goal within one-year. He paid the rent, went with his wife and got their first baby. He paid for the hospital, and the college without any scholarship. This man to me is an idle, since he started his career with a bachelor degree in English language, and his sub-major is: related to English-Arabic instantaneous translation; something like those Tv and reporting language translators. Though I never saw him, I hold the highest respect toward him. Since I am a mechanical engineer, and for more then 10 yrs, I have been working in government owned cooperation, on the field of industrial technology transfer-projects. However, I never met anyone who isn’t Engineer, Science specialized or at least has a bachelor on industrial managements or information technology (IT) to work on industrial fields; and yet he had a wonderful career as a senior human resources manager , and after his attainment of master degree, he works now as a consultant on developing projects.

LOL I left for Spain in 2013 I had enough after seen the 2011 London Riots, deserted streets and shops closed at 4pm due to this. Rubbish and indifferent people everywhere living right next to each other. I'm done with living in apartments, I want my own detached house away from neighbours etc. And people in offices, the worst, I've in worked young trendy companies in Soho with me as a 20 year old and investment banks and all trash people, no-one really wants to be there. Snobs and thugs and who cares. I remember when I was younger, almost got killed because neighbours left a candle burning on top of a TV set in Camden Town I was the only one on that floor that night, woke up to what I thought to be a domestic disbute outside in the corridor and it was a woman fire officer axing down doors, I jumped out the window (it was a low ground window) with smoke inhalation and the two miscreants that had returned clubbing were outside with the fire engines laughing at me - like I said trash people.

@MarvelMadness2003 'they' didn't. And black people were about before slavery.

Narcissism and anti social behaviour is extremely common even though we as a society pretend it isn't. Its shocking that more brits especially English arnt leaving more than they are.

@@foxb77 If by here you mean less than 100 that were brought as servants, than yes.

Who ever said a melting pot is a good thing.

Hvad kunne du ikke lide ved København?

@@elbruhmomentonumerodos9227 Jeg kan nok ikke sætte min finger på én bestemt ting, jeg følte mig bare aldrig hjemme. Selvom London fx er mange gange større end KBH, har jeg altid syntes at London er enormt hyggelig, og spændende - jeg fik aldrig den følelse i KBH, og følte at det var en lidt mere "kold" by. Men omvendt, så boede min søster i KBH i flere år, og selvom hun voksede op i Kolding, boede i Ålborg i nogle år, og nu bor i England, så anser hun stadig KBH som værende "hjemme" hun elskede KBH. Da jeg var i Amsterdam og Toronto, fik jeg straks den samme følelse som med London, at jeg følte mig hjemme, og "her kunne jeg godt bo" dén følelse fik jeg aldrig med KBH, selvom jeg boede der længe. Der er intet galt med KBH, byen er bare ikke for mig :)

@@anecobb Hmm interresant. Tak fordi du ville dele dit synspunkt med mig, hav en god dag :)

in your opinion which country is most expensive for a tourist? Amsterdam - london - copenhagen

@@scream4depp I think it depends what you want to do as a tourist... Denmark is a really expensive country in general, and compared to London, it is a lot more expensive when you go out in regards to food and drink for example. I don´t think there is a massive difference between the two with the "touristy stuff" - that is pretty expensive both places. Both cities have good public transport, although - as a foreigner, I would say, that it is easier to figure out how to do it in London, with the tube... as CPH mainly uses buses, and it might be confusing to a person that is not a native speaker to navigate thát....compared to how it is set up in London. I will be honest and say, that we only spent 3 days in Amsterdam, and we did not do any of the touristy stuff, as we were so in love with the city itself, that we spent the whole time walking round the canals, and soaking up the atmosphere. We drove there, which was a mistake... parking is very hard to find, and it is very expensive. I would say...if you want to go there... rent a bike (everybody rides bikes) or walk. I don´t fully remember if the food and drink prices were closer to London or CPH, but the hotel was quite pricy, as we decided to stay in the middle of the city for convenience.

it wouldn't have happened with NS

You're right, I hate London now, hardly visited in the last 2 decades, what a shit hole it has become

I was there from 186 to the very end of the year 2000 . I visited in 2017 and it wasn’t as attractive as it was decades ago. Gentrification doesn’t make things more attractive in my view.

It's interesting to hear your perspective on how London has changed since the 80s and 90s. The city has indeed undergone significant transformations over the years, becoming more diverse and cosmopolitan. While some may argue that this has led to a perceived loss of its British identity, it's important to consider the broader context and benefits that come with a diverse and globalized city. London's evolution into a multicultural hub has brought numerous advantages, including a vibrant arts and cultural scene, a wide range of international cuisine, and increased opportunities for global connections and business partnerships. This internationalization has also attracted a diverse pool of talent, contributing to its position as a leading global financial center. However, it's essential to remember that London's character is shaped by its historical heritage and rich cultural tapestry, which includes both British and international influences. While it may feel different from how it was decades ago, this evolution has made London an even more dynamic and inclusive city. Regarding your comment about feeling more at home in Paris, Rome, and Madrid, it's worth noting that each city has its own unique charm and cultural identity. The perception of feeling more at home in these cities might be influenced by various factors such as personal preferences, familiarity, or individual experiences. It could be valuable to explore the reasons behind your sentiment and consider whether there might be opportunities to reconnect with the aspects of London that you once cherished. Perhaps engaging with local communities, exploring new neighborhoods, or seeking out events and activities that align with your interests could help rekindle a sense of belonging and connection. Ultimately, cities are constantly evolving entities, shaped by a multitude of factors. While change can be challenging, it also brings new opportunities for growth and diversity. Reflecting on these changes can lead to a deeper understanding of how our perceptions are influenced and can open up possibilities for embracing the positive aspects of London's transformation.

Bigot.

Lol, why.

unfortunately we have reached a point in history where we again have to ask "which war?".

Wrong. Considering salaries in Spain, It is an expensive city, rents are high and everywhere you go it´s tourist oriented (overpriced).

@@shanon72327 I don't think my comment about past situations was "wrong". Barcelona is popular and there is always a tendency to exploit and increase prices with supply and demand. However Barcelona is a University city, vibrant with and excellent transport system. Even the pick pockets are attracted to the place.

Nah. As a nurse you can make good money in London. Try outside and you will die of hunger

@@staedlerok if the average salary is around 35k /40k year, for sure the person does not go hungry but it is very different to compare with a good life, especially if you have children, you could not pay for school and health, in England they pay well for nurses compared to other countries but usually in other countries people talk directly to the doctor, this ends up devaluing the job, UK it's the opposite, to talk to the doctor is very difficult and they value nurses 😊 maybe for a nurse it's worth living in London but there are other cons that need to be seen

The main advantages of London are the architecture, history, nice areas consistency, education, and relative proximity to both the US and Europe, and that might help your business or employment a lot.

I live in North London and my brother is working in zone 1. The salary is slightly higher than people working in general towns rather than big cities but not enough to live in inner London. Majority of my brother’s colleagues are living in outer London, spend hrs to travel everyday.

It’s sad, I feel your pain all we can do is educate people on what this great city used to be like.

Sad times thank you for sharing your thoughts cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

Feel sorry for you

@@borobhai1 yes I feel shame for you, shame that you want the indigenous peoples replaced.

@Michelle so this is pay back?