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For some reason London is celebrated as this mecha of art, cuisine, class, top notch infrastructure, architecture.
But I used to go there three times a year for work and sometimes I would be there for up to three months and I just never found what everyone talks about.
- ART:
I hear over and over about the London museums and the nightlife, theater, but to be honest for a city that size is nothing to write home about. The nightlife in London is in fact pretty mediocre considering how large the city is.
- CUISINE:
Having tons of take outs with cuisine from old colonies does not mean you're a culinary epicentre. I have heard British people tell me London is the gastronomical capital of the world, I always have to roll my eyes.
- FASHION:
Another claim I heard, London is the capital of fashion. I fail to see how. I have seen people with much more interesting styles in places like Mexico city, Barcelona or Istanbul that what I've seen in London.
- INFRASTRUCTURE:
Pretty bad and getting old quickly. The tube has stations in places it shouldn't need to have one, and there are stations missing in areas of the city in which you should really have a station. Paris blows london off the water on public transportation. The autoroutes around the city are congested and pretty bad. (Not as bad as in Paris though), but London has better routes than Paris.
- ARCHITECTURE: The best architecture is the traditional British one but I find more monumental and mind blowing architecture in southern Europe than in the UK.... The rest if vastly US style office buildings full of glass.
For some reason London is celebrated as this mecha of art, cuisine, class, top notch infrastructure, architecture.
But I used to go there three times a year for work and sometimes I would be there for up to three months and I just never found what everyone talks about.
- ART:
I hear over and over about the London museums and the nightlife, theater, but to be honest for a city that size is nothing to write home about. The nightlife in London is in fact pretty mediocre considering how large the city is.
- CUISINE:
Having tons of take outs with cuisine from old colonies does not mean you're a culinary epicentre. I have heard British people tell me London is the gastronomical capital of the world, I always have to roll my eyes.
- FASHION:
Another claim I heard, London is the capital of fashion. I fail to see how. I have seen people with much more interesting styles in places like Mexico city, Barcelona or Istanbul that what I've seen in London.
- INFRASTRUCTURE:
Pretty bad and getting old quickly. The tube has stations in places it shouldn't need to have one, and there are stations missing in areas of the city in which you should really have a station. Paris blows london off the water on public transportation. The autoroutes around the city are congested and pretty bad. (Not as bad as in Paris though), but London has better routes than Paris.
- ARCHITECTURE: The best architecture is the traditional British one but I find more monumental and mind blowing architecture in southern Europe than in the UK.... The rest if vastly US style office buildings full of glass.
I think that by the time of my first visit I had heard so many wild stories and seen the place in so many films that I had this massive expectation of I don't even know....but it just didn't live up to the hype.
I've been back several times and I always have a ball, but my first impression was not what I expected. It's still a great party town, it is what it is...but it just wasn't what I expected it to be.
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It was Vegas for me.
I think that by the time of my first visit I had heard so many wild stories and seen the place in so many films that I had this massive expectation of I don't even know....but it just didn't live up to the hype.
I've been back several times and I always have a ball, but my first impression was not what I expected. It's still a great party town, it is what it is...but it just wasn't what I expected it to be.
I appreciate your post however it's best not to feed a troll thread.
Just don't give her the satisfaction.
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