Still a great place to visit, but live there, nah. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I was getting job after job in London so instead of driving back and forward I stayed at a mates for a year in London. Him and his London mates made me feel very welcome.
Stoke also close to signing Anselmo García MacNulty as well. What a signing that would be if true. He’s who I would’ve wanted last summer as a Greaves replacement if Hughes didn’t sign and he’s someone I’d still want now.
I liked it. Especially when I moved from Hanger Lane to Richmond! I'd probably still be there if I didn't miss my wife and kids so much ha ha.
I could live in London for a few months but I think once the novelty had worn off and I was working overtime just to pay my rent I’d have got fed up and moved back out. A better solution would be reasonable train prices.
I think I read this week congestion charge is increasing to £18.50 a day...?... and that they're removing the 90% discount for residents..?
I loved it while I was there. Despite the stereotypes like Rover I didn’t find it unfriendly at all. Amidst the various levels of gentle banter to actual derision about being from Hull though I’ll always remember a Londoner by birth telling me how envious they were of me being from somewhere else, even Hull, because I had somewhere else that I could just go to to escape the intensity of London without going on holiday or to a hotel or whatever. It really hit me and fed into my general feeling that I wouldn’t have wanted to stay and raise a family there.
It was the late ‘80s admittedly, but I was paying £30 a week to live in a room in a housing co-op HMO then. I dread to think what it would cost now.
I'm sure there's a ****load of places you wouldn't wanna live in London, but London is so connected and has so much going on that it's hard to get your head round if you live elsewhere. Also drive round Hull and look at how many places you wouldn't want to live in, the multiply that by 100. A peasant in my family couldn't stand BMW's til he had the money to buy one.
I think what I enjoyed the most (and still do now when I go back a couple of times a month) is that you can never be bored. There are thousands of pubs. Thousands of different routes to walk, buildings to look at, shops to visit. There are parks that take weeks to properly explore and hundreds of tourist attractions that you can visit. The first months of my two and a bit years was pretty much all lockdown so I spent most of it walking around all day. Even after doing that for months on end there are tons of places I want to go and visit that I've saved pictures of that popped up on social media for example. I set my self little challenges such as doing every pie and mash shop, visiting tube stations alphabetically and having a pint then moving on. Looking back I really was lonely and bored down there ha ha. Living in Hull most of my life has pretty much made everything we have to offer quite samey, I've seen it a million times. Hull is a great place but obviously is way short in terms of things to get stuck into.
