I'm 21 and I've never traveled into Central London by myself, I'm always worried about being mugged or beaten up :(

london's full of pricks

i live in manhattan


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I live in Vancouver British Columbia. We are the most left nation in the world who had just voted a mayor who calls himself a socialist. Your move.

>>2445817

What. Central London is full of people in suits and hipsters who go to trendy bars. It's east london you should be scared of when it comes to getting mugs. Central London is WAY too expensive for those thugs to visit, and definitely too expensive to live in.

I go down there often (I live in the subarbs) because the train system is awesome so it only takes me 20 minutes on the central line to get to oxford street.

Fucking awesome. Never heard of ANYONE getting mugged in central.

your city is shit and so is your whole fucking planet, you bumpkin

>>2445832

Well I wanted to go to Goodge Street and Picadilly Circus to go to the arcades mainly and a few game stores, I just can't muster up the courage to go by myself, I live right next to a Picadilly Line and Metro Line stop in the North-West so it should be easy and straightforward enough for me to go by myself, I guess my paranoia and anxiety is mostly holding me back.

>>2445808
london is fucking expensive. also isn't there some toll for driving your car during peak congestion?

>isn't riddled with ridiculous tall buildings and is caressed by beautiful classical architecture along with modern day artistic buildings
paris is 1000x better in this aspect. even vienna at that. they're also both cleaner.

london would be tits if it wasn't so fucking expensive though.

I live in Houston. It's a dirty, congested, sprawling city. But it's in Texas so it's still awesome.

Seattle Seattle Seee-aaaaa-ttle

London IS pretty awesome, but it's marred by being in England.

London is the ugliest city I've ever been to. The architecture is so hodge podged. It's like the city's having a massive identity crisis and can't decide if it wants to be 'classical' in it's architecture, modern, or contemporary. So these buildings dot the town and don't blend at all. Just looks like a face with acne all over it.

Now Paris, that is a beautiful city (if you're going for cities without sky scrapers).

I live in the pot smoking capitol of California.

I could smoke weed walking down the street and not get a second glance. We've got more head shops than grocery stores. And dank that's imported throughout the west coast.

Pic related.

San Jose, California.

Surrounding area is pretty much the technology capital of the world. Weather is usually nice, even if it's raining right now. Also ranked one of the safest large cities in the nation.

Wiki had this little gem:
>San Jose residents produce more U.S. patents than any other city. Thirty-five percent of all venture capital funds in the U.S. are invested in San Jose and Silicon Valley companies.

We're pretty much the ones that actually come up with all the cool shit the rest of you work to buy.

London is one of the most atheist cities in the world. Also, honestly, no-one can beat our mayor:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFRgIb8mAQ

>>2445894
Oh, and cause it's 4chan, I'll throw this out there
46.96% White
30.49% Asian
2.92% African

>>2445902
This is true. Boris is the ultimate in entertainment.

>>2445886

But thats the beauty of it, the beautiful contrast, glory and despair, old and new, it all fits together perfectly.

Like the other guy said, it kinda has problems because it is married to Britain (the beautiful cambridge and oxford have this problem too). But we're not talking about that.

>>2445902
His. ahh... performance in Top Gear was... interesting to say the least

>>2445912
London IS Britain. Everything you dislike about Britain is because of London.

Los Angeles
'nuff said

>>2445922
While he may not have been victorious, he was brave. After all Clarkson, much like his namesake Paxman, is a fearsome interviewer.

At least one politician in England has balls.

>>2445868
Oh, I live in Houston too, what part do you live in?

I live in Middle Tennessee. It's awesome because everywhere you go is a different kind of beautiful, and people here appreciate the simple things in life. They're more upstanding and friendly. I live around mountains, but they're not real hugeass mountains, they're foothills, so you get the benefit of topography without needing helicopters to rescue you. I get vertigo when I go to flat places. It's acceptable to dress like a hipster and walk around with a can of dip in your back pocket. The food is all fried and delicious. The outdoor hobbies people partake in, like fishing, hunting and just enjoying the view or whatever are very wholesome, in my opinion, and help you keep your mind clear..

Melbourne if you don't want such a high ratio of pricks:nice people

I've been to England three times, and have much extended family over there - and not once on all three occasions have I stopped and spent time in London. Nothing negative behind it, I just found the Midlands and parts of Wales more attractive. :)

London is so not britain; northern england, most of the coastal cities (lawl clacton), and the middle (lawl birmingham) are jokes. Find me a decent five star restaurant in Birmingham my good friend, I will find one twenty times better in London.

Even our chavs are more cultured.

>>2445935

ping pong balls

>>2445940
what do you do? you sound like a student

>>2445948

Comparing London's food to Birmingham's food is like comparing brown shit to green shit. It all tastes like shit.

dude i live in england, right next to london, wherever you are in southern england (not britain, england), if you go out after dark you're more than likely to get mugged beaten up and raped, so yeah, beautiful place...i've been here my entire life, now 17 years, i'm moving over to malta in august because this country sucks ass, and malta is awesome...

London is only good for niggers that dig welfare-statism. The taxes are fucked for anyone with real ambition and actual ability. Fuck London.

DUBAI IS GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD. ALL OTHER CITIES ARE RUN BY LITTLE GIRLS.

>>2445948
Then enjoy your over-priced poncey ridiculous food and your faggoty theatres you southern fairy. Just don't insult the North, you're embarassing yourself.
Oh, your Chavs are more cultured? How does highest murder rate = more cultured?

>>2445872
Very much correct you are being now

Oh man, what the shit is this stuff about London being dangerous, just because the news sensationalises one murder every few years, doesn't mean it happens all the time (remember the damilola taylor story? One story, still going on today).

I've lived in London my whole life, I went to uni in London so I know literally hundreds of Londoners, I know maybe one or two people who got mugged.


>>2445946

Ah I agree, Wales is lovely, and jesus christ the people there are the nicest people ever.

>>2445979

YES I WILL INDEED ENJOY MY AWESOME RESTAURANTS AND FANTASTIC THEATRES. THANKS.

ALSO I'LL ENJOY MY HIGHER PAYING JOB BECAUSE ALL THE BIGGEST INDUSTRIES ARE HERE.

DURRRRR

>>2445978

Doha here, living in the country with the most GDP per capita in the world.

The most depressing thing about this place is that everyone drives fucking Beamers, Astons or Mercs.

>>2445999

Maybe if I lived in Central London or a few tube stops away I'd feel safer about being in Central London, but I just don't really :/

I live in Edinburgh. It is the greatest place to live because I chose to live there. I don't mean that it is great because I am there, but I CHOSE to live here, I wasn't just born and raised here. I chose it because it is one of the truly beautiful cities in the world, and certainly the most beautiful in Britain. In general, I hate cities, but I love Edinburgh.

Glasgow is a hellhole, though, and quite close by. So that is a minus.

>>2446011
OK THEN, BUT PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALSO ENJOY INFLATED PRICES BECAUSE OF YOUR HIGHER PAYING JOB.

GOOD LUCK BUYING A HOUSE ANYTIME SOON.

THANKYOU FOR FUCKING UP THE REST OF THE COUNTRY FINANCIALLY ASWELL. NICE ONE.

Albany, NY.

...It pretty much sucks.

>>2446020

St. Andrews here, Edinburgh, you have good night life that is a change from this sleepy town.

>>2446038

How are those 'steamed hams' I'm always hearing about?

I'm not a huge fan of Seattle, but I must say that the marijuana here is cheap, plentiful, and excellent. The music scene here is top-notch, too. This place would be awesome if it weren't for the godforsaken rain.

i live in hartford, connecticut. its pretty here in the fall but theres not much else appealing about it

I live in Bath, in the Southwest of England.

It's a world heritage site, and insanely pretty. Low crime, good employment rate. First rate education all the way up to university level. It's not as big as somewhere as London obviously, but it has a decent nightlife where everything's underground if it's a club, and there are a lot of pubs serving great beer and cider. The students stop it from becoming boring and old-man-y. Rigt next door is Bristol which is awesome for going clubbing, and a short train ride away is london so I can go visit friends there too.

Suits me great at the moment.

Cities I'm also fucking fond of: Nottingham, London, Hong Kong, San Fran, NY.

I pity the robot who lives in LA, Shitty, shitty place.

>>2445978

I dunno if you're joking or not. I've seen pictures and heard anecdotal evidence, I've also stopped there during plane flights, and I must say it does seem really clean and hi-tech and shit.

But the fact that its a deeply muslim city seriously terrifies me. Heard about the guy who almost got put away to jail because he had poppy seeds on him? He was eating a poppy seed bun but they thought it was cocaine.

>>2446142

I suspect they thought they were opiates rather than cocaine, since you derive heroin and such things from poppy seeds, not cocaine.

i live in old street. east london but also very close to the city. i've never been mugged.

Also, if you want the trendy clubs and bars. and meet interesting people then east london is pretty much the place to go.

To the person defending the north... don't bother. The entire north is fucking shit.

>>2446146

doh, sorry my mistake, I knew that

>>2446156

I've lived in London and Manchester for similar lengths of time. I preferred Manchester, because everybody in London thinks they're fucking special for living in London.

>>2446156

Thats because Shoreditch Twats started taking over the East End. For faux irony I guess.

I know ST is a derogatory term, but its quite stylish and my ex is one of them. Pretty girls and twenty-somethings. You can't argue with that.

Cleveland
This shithole is so awesome, and we party so hard we light large bodies of water on fire.
Note the river burnings.

brussels, its an okay city I guess...nothing special but nothing bad either...

I live in Amsterdam. Not all that great, a sort of village with a god-complex.
Coffeeshops are good though, surroundings are pretty okay.

>>2446176

yeh, i'm pretty much the epitome of the shoreditch twat...
but whatever i'm pretty sure i wouldn't be having more fun anywhere else in london

>>2446188

How much of amsterdam is made up of foreigners trying weed and sleeping with prostitutes for the first time?

>>2446206

At any given moment I would say 17%.

In weekends it goes up to 27%.

>>2445808

It's also FUCKING FILTHY and everyone are gigantic self-righteous douchebags. It's full of Pakis, Niggers and Jews.

London is a shithole

Amsterdam fucking owns

I live in Sheffield and apart from New York, it's my favourite city even after seeing pretty much ever city worth seeing in this country

>>2446229

>i live in the home counties and i vote tory

>>2446229

*only lives in Mile End*

Melbourne. It's an extremely tidy, well-planned port city with various UNESCO and Olympics decorations, not to mention regularly topping the World's most liveable city survey. The local media actually kicks up a stink when we come second or third.

Has its own dance movement, its own football code, its own surprisingly large fashion industry, the most extensive tram system in the world, tonnes of parkland, sports infrastructure that's second to none, easily the best shopping in Australia, speaks 200+ languages and is littered with more than its fair share of quality public buildings from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

>>2446268

Melbourne's nice, but Vancouver's got you beat for standard of living(!)

I live in Toronto, and it sucks big time

one of the main reasons would be the public transit system here.

ideal place to live? beachfront california!

i live in toronto canada. We have nice, suburbs, but that's not what you're going to see if you visit. You're going to see the freezing crack whores begging outside the CN tower, and the monstrosities that are the financial district.

Oh yeah, 2012 Olympics are going to be a lolfest, us London fags hope the rest of you enjoy our pop concert of an opening ceremony.

>>2446323
lol, poster of >>2446331
here. Sup, fellow torontofag, where do you live? Etobicoke myself.

>>2446288

It's fucking freezing in Vancouver.

QED

>>2446336

it's going to be a disaster. but lol @ stratford

>>2446336

Yeah, seriously, if you really just give us two hours of U2/Radiohead/etc I will mail an envelope of wizzfizz to the Queen.

>>2446340

North york here, damn this city is really boring... nothing to do

>>2446359

Sorry but you will enjoy your Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen and 1,000 people dancing in hooded sweaters with 2012 logos on them.

>>2446361
oh fuck, tell me about it. Toronto is a pretty fucking boring place to live. i meet people from small town ontario who are envious of me for living in a big 'happenin' city, then are confused when i offer to switch. I'd much rather have grown up in a small town, and known everyone, than live here, where i know like, 1% of the population.

I love Winnipeg. It has a lot of nice local businesses (which is nice because in Edmonton the chain stores always seem more prominent than the local stores). The old buildings in the downtown section are beautiful. However the best part about this city is when I was here about 5 years ago I saw a midget in a business suit crossing the seat.
HOW FUCKING AWESOME IS THAT?
I do not see enough midgets, I bet in Edmonton they're eaten or some shit because I've never, in all my years growing up around Edmonton, seen one inside or out of the city.

agree with OP
best city in the world

I live in winnipeg. Which is in Canada. It is single handedly the worst city ever. Its a frozen wasteland with shit all to do. Right now its -40 with the windchill and i have to take the fucking bus to work because my car wont start.

i live in san mateo, california. it's decent. equal distance from san fran, san jose, oakland, berekey, all the so called great places in the bay area without having to deal with the fuckton of twats parading around the 'cool places'.

i prefered living in san antonio, personally. even if just for the much cooler people. but also, more, and more interesting, history, cheaper cost of living by leaps and bounds, more diversity, more fun hose parties... i could go on

grew up in Los Angeles
college and early career in New York
currently an expat in Tokyo

my job provides me the opportunity to relocate when I want, so I will probably move in 5 or so years. Anyone been to Zurich, Bermuda or Hong Kong? Recommendations?

>>2447120
I love hong kong. Your remuneration there may not be that great though.

>>2446490
Winnipegers are wimps, I walked in this temperature to work pretty much every day last winter and I didn't complain.

>>2446436
>>2446490
DIE WINNIPEG DIE DIE DIE FUCKERS DIE

I live in Reading, England. Lat year, it was voted the worst town in the UK. I'm not sure about this year, though.

>>2447124
why do you say that?

blawkinandtalkinwospacin

I live in San Antonio and i love it. It's like a really big little city. I work in the hospitality industry there and everyone always tells me the hospitality in San Antonio is much better than any of the other cities they've visited. It's a huge city, but its still based on that little city economy which makes our town resistant to the recession. Our modern architecture isn't the best, but it's all the little buildings in downtown that makes the city what it is. and its in Texas so thats a plus.

>>2445808
lol they forgot to take down the ferris wheel.

>>2447150

winnipeg is a frozen dogshit dildo

>>2447162

shit i'm possibly moving there next year.....

I'm from South East London and enjoy it for the same reasons as OP said but also for the diversity access to most things you could ever want

Everyone in London is a prick.

Glasgow is ok, I want to move to Dundee though.

London would be a lot better if it had gas lamps and street urchans running around saying "Shine yer shoes, gov'nor?" Also steam robots and airships.

this is my motherfucking house..SAN FRANCISCO MOTHERFUCKER HAVE YOU HEARD OF IT...

>>2447564
this is what i see when i walk outta my house MOTHERFUCKER ITS BEAUTIFUL

>>2447564

haha, so tacky and gay, just what I would expect from SF.

>>2447541

the gas lamps are around

shoe shiners... not as much. plenty of tramps though

>>2447475

Reading's not so bad. I grew up around there.

There's just nothing to be excited about with the place, possible exception of the festival.

People in London are indeed pricks

but everyone loves an asshole

>>2447564
I live in a small town in the country and I always lol at people's protection of their pseudo-"yards" in cities.

THIS IS MY TREE MOTHERFUCKER I HAVE A FENCE AROUND IT DON'T YOU TOUCH IT

Malibu
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ITS SO EXPENSIVE GOD DAMN

Although I cannot deny how awesome and pretty it is here. Except its raining here today for the first time in forever. Not that far away from third street either, like a half hour which is cool.

seriously where else ya gonna get a block that looks like this?? San Francisco ftw...and yeah we like our yards, SO FUCKING WHAT

I was born in New York City.

I never have to live anywhere else.

>>2447712
My point is they're hardly yards.

>>2447564

Ok, someone find this anon's house on google maps so we can start raiding him.

Grew up in Denton, TX. I loved it, you get to fuck with hipsters, they had little weird ass places, not far from Fort Worth or Dallas, and they people there were pretty friendly, gas was cheap, and there was always something to do.

Now I live in Fort Myers, FL. It's a fucking shithole. All you motherfucking snowbirds come down here, act rude as hell when I open the door for you(its the south, we have this thing called HOSPITALITY), smell like shit, and cause about 5 car wrecks an hour because you shitheads can't drive. Then we have these old ass retirees, who don't do shit, and just take of jobs for younger citizens, even though they're fucking retired. The beaches are shit, it rains everyday in the summer, and there's not a goddamn thing to do.

And we're not all fags in the bay btw..ok i'm done flaunting my beautiful city

>>2447685

Yes, but you live in the country and they live in the city, so they win.

i lived in north east london for 5 years, its fucking disgusting, its filled with turkish that hate english because they know they shouldnt be here but they raep our property and turn everything into a social club, niggers hate everyone, even each other and wont stop stabbing people and the white youth of today has started to talk in this fucking horrible ethnic mix of languages, where the fuck have all the cockneys gone?

>BOSTON

Boston is better than everywhere, I know this from having been everywhere, and seeing a lot of wheres in my day.

>>2447781

Boston is great, as long as you don't mind freezing half to death every winter.

>>2445886
>modern, or contemporary

arent these the same thing?

I grew up in east London and have been held at knifepoint on a good few occasions by gangs. It has it's problems like any other huge city, but it's a bit of a reach to say it's a perfectly safe place to live. Eight times more likely to be mugged here than in NYC seemingly..

I fucking love london. I agree that it is the greatest city in the world. I wish I lived there

You cunts dont know London until you walk down the along the river thames at night with a girl hanging off your arm. All those beautiful lights, the warn summer breeze, the glorious architecture. Fucking awesome.

>>2445891
>>2445891

Where is this magical land in California that you speak of?

I go to imperial college and lodon's pretty shitty becuase:
1. too spread out
2. expensive
3. air/water quality is appaling

But on the plus side there are awsome free museums and art stuff and cheap concerts. On the down side I don't get to do that much due to the amount of study needed for my course.

where i live is great because on a quiet night, in like 80% of places in this village, you'll hear a sheep baaing out of nowhere

I live by Detroit. Fuck Detroit, the niggers ruined what was never a good city by anyone's standards. I'm typically not a very racist person, but the second that I look at Detroit and see how that chimp Kwame Kilpatrick ruined it when I thought it was impossible to sink any lower, I just can't bear to think we gave him and his kind the right to run in an election.

>>2448051

I bet you live in wales

>>2448043

Ooh awesome, an imperialfag, we totally trashed you cunts a couple years back (I studied at LSE : B). Good times though, Imperial is a great uni. I've met pretty damn cultured people over there.

As for what you say about the air, I guess you're right, doesn't bother me because I've lived here my whole life, but my ex came from wales to study at LSE and she couldn't sleep for days because the air sickened her. You get used to it I guess...

Anyway, what do you study?

Literature or History I bet?

>>2445808

london is a shithole. Full of fucking foreigners who have been lured there with the promise of a false life and more money, work colleuges finding any excuse to screw you over to get higher on the financial ladder. Everything is 10 times more expensive than the rest of the UK. Everytime you go out at night theres a chance youll get stabbed by some nigger or homeless who would happily kill you for 5 pounds and a disposable lighter.

Shithole...

>>2448043

What

Central London isn't too spread out, you can walk the whole area easily. Who cares about outer london?

I've made it from tottenham court road to camden with ease plenty of times. Maybe you just dont know London well enough...

Anyway we have a tube system that makes everything easy.

>>2445959
i go to community college and smoke weed sometimes. i need a job but haven't had one in a few months.

Tokyo FTW

/thread

Chavs are London's biggest problem? No.
Central London is crime free? Lol no.

>>2448154

OP here, Tokyo and Hong Kong look pretty cool. My best friend goes to Hong Kong almost every holiday and he says its one of the best cities ever.

Gets lots of cheap pirated shit too.

He says its the closest you can get to Blade Runner without going into the future.

Royal Holloway uni fag here. I get the best of both worlds in London. Clean, open air but I'm at the 3rd best London uni and I get a UoL degree.

Now, I'm back in North London for x-mas.

London is an amazing city but i cannot agree that it beats the North.

All you cocky shit heads believe we're some cave-dwelling retards which is balls.

i lived in Kendal for 15 years and i have recently moved to Devon and from there to London.

London is a fine city but nothing compares to the mountains, lakes and decent people with no intent on killing you.

Oh and loads more retards live in the South, i expected it to be more intellectual here but fuck me i was wrong.

>>2445891

Humboldt fag reporting in.

>>2448171

Hm, I stand corrected. Maybe it's because I only visit west london and don't live there. I live in the subarbs, Redbridge, although its a short train journey to west London.

For me personally, Chavs and the like make London a dirty and unlikeable place, whilst crime and stuff like that has never been an issue for me at all.

>>2448187

You kidding? Royal Hol isn't the third best London Uni

UCL, LSE and Kings are at the top, Queen Mary follows but is dampened because of its horrible location and mickey mouse degrees saturating the great medicine/humanities departments. After that we have Royal Holloway.

I mean I suppose it depends on what department you're in.

That said Holloway does seem like a pleasent uni to go to. As you said, best of both worlds. Its the same with where I live, I'm right near London, but enjoy peace and clenliness because I'm further out.

One of my favorite quotes is from Mike Leighs "Career Girls" when the girls are pretending to be rich so that they can visit high end apartments that are for sale. They're in the penthouse of a south thames building.

"Wow. On a clear day you can see the class struggle from here"

Cairo.

It has everything - great nightlife, overcrowdedness, river nile, poor people, rich people, 3 universities - including one of the oldest (Al Azhar, founded 975 AD), old buildings, historical buildings, ancient religious buildings, GODDAMN HOT SUMMER, beautiful winter...we pretty much have everything.

Our problem in here is overcrowdedness, and what do we call a "black cloud", which is a cloud of smog that swarms the city in November.

Pittsburgh, PA. Safest city I know.

Probably because the sports teams keep them happy.

I live in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. We have is a 5 star resort by a beautiful lake, a world class golf course, and some of the most beautiful mountains around. The only shitty thing is all of the stupid Californians moving in.

>>2448349

what about all the muslims?

>>2448349
I've been there, I saw a sign that said EGYPT IS THE LEADER OF PEACE.

What was all that about? It was in both english and sandrune.

>>2448287
Kings is like 5th.

UCL is 1st because of it's size. LSE comes second, though I don't know why. 3rd is Royal Holloway pretty broad uni with everything which you could ask for. One of the top research institutes in the UK. Imperial and Kings are a close fight for 4th and 5th but it's shortened amount of subjects hinders it where Royal Holloway flies.

Queen Mary being 4th? Nah mate, shit grade record, shitty research dept., shitty area.

>>2448369
Yo, I'm in Pittsburgh too, South Oakland area (Pitt-fag)

Where do you live in our fine metropolis?

New York. Is there really anything I need to say about New fucking York? It's undeniably the greatest city on this planet. Truly a cosmopolitan paradise.

>>2448769

Except it's too cold in winter.

Except for days like today, when the city sudden forgets and acts like it's still October.

>>2448659

Holloway being better than Imperial and Kings? Are you shitting me?

As for QMU, I know a lot of intelligent people who go there, they have the second best meds dept and second best humanities dept next to Kings.

What is holloway is good at? Most of the London Unis are spread by specific strengths and weaknesses. LSE for Economics and the Like, Kings and QMU for humanities and law, UCL for sciences and medicine, etc.

>>2448769
Boston > NYC

i live in michigan. its shaped like a hand.

>>2448769

three words.

BREAK YOSELF MOFOCKA

>>2448831
I'd say that RHUL is more like UCL, in respect that it offers a wide range of subjects and isn't individually focused on one department for it's accolades. You can't really criticise LSE, King's and Imperial in that respect, as they do not offer as wide a range as UCl, RHUL or QM. But QM definitely doesn't even compare along RHUL when you look at research, investment and tech, no matter how intelligent your friends are. As for UCL's strengths being science and medicine, although it's true, they are just as strong in business and maths. Heh, I guess it's why they're no.1 eh?

If Imperial and King's offered more than they're narrow range of subjects then perhaps they'd be third. Hell, I'm just going with the consensus view here. After all, whether it be UCL, LSE or RHUL, at the end of the day, we all get a University of London degree right?

It'd be like saying which college of Oxford or Cambridge is better.

>>2448621
Apart from the Engrish that is all around the city, our beloved government of sexy 23 year old chicks of all colours wants us to think that Egypt is "the helping hand and the official peacemakers" in the area...

tl;dr government propaganda

So you were in Cairo? Where did you stay?

>>2448874

NYC - 24 hour subways.

Therefore, NYC > Boston.

I live in Chino Hills CA. There's nothing to do unless you like cow tipping and binge drinking, neither of which are appealing to me.

And London was amazing, I wish I could get out this black hole of a town and move there. Buuuuut I'm not loaded, so it doesn't seem like that's going to happen anytime soon.

>>2449037
Imperial is no longer part of the university of london. >>2448097
Imperial only does sciences and eng for undergraduates. They do a small amount of one years masters in humanitietes. I can't spell.

>>2448287
*cough* imperial.

>>2445886

That's called having a history.

Paris is nice enough for a weekend, but when you get past that it's full of idiot black French rap-lovers and wannabe gange-bangers, waiters/waitresses, and tourists. That's basically it, and they're all cretins, instead of just the 50% in London.

>>2445902

Screw that video, this is Boris:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA

>>2449055
Lies. All lies, liar lying lies.

>>2448083
>>2448875
dont forget, we have the 16-0 Detroit Lions!

Portland, Oregon kicks ass because it's temperate with varied geography in the locale.

The people I could give or take. Bunch of hipsters who want to be 21 forever.

I live in Victoria, British Columbia. We have the only double-decker buses outside of England, and the city shuts down after a fucking inch of snowfall. Also, the castle from the X-Men movies is 10 minutes from my house.

>>2448537
I'm from Spokane and fuck, every time I visit Coeur d'Alene, I ooze jealousy. Awesome place, though it sucks that your minimum wage isn't as good as Washington's.

Mount Shasta, California.

Population around 4000.

At the foot of (and named for) the second highest peak in the Cascades.

Best tap water in the fucking world- none of that chlorinated bullshit you city folk call "water". And it's absolutely free. I can always identify a tourist by the $5 bottles of water they carry around.

10 minutes from the College of the Siskiyous, a very nice community college (as those go).

Small enough that violent crime is virtually non-existent, big enough that it has restaurants, a theater, etc. unlike some deserted hellhole (*cough*McCloud*cough*)

Pic is of main street. Notice the complete lack of crowds/noise/pollution.

My hometown kicks ass.

>>2449037

Well, I suppose its best to look at it from the dept that you studied in rather than overall imo. Like if I did English Lit I'd say Kings and QMU were at the top. If it was meds, I'd say UCL or QMU.

As for all being part of the University of London.

I always wondered about that. What do you put on the CV? Degree from university of london? Or Kings College.

As mentioned, Oxford is just oxford, you dont mention the college afaik...

>>2449290

Holy shit! I'm from Spokane too. Represent!

Calgary was awesome before the swarm of immigrants and newfies. A booming economy has its negatives for sure. Rent is sky high and most people work way to hard and binge drink/eat. I want to move to Toronto.

My only beef with London, speaking as a Brit, is that what would have been a non-news story anywhere else in the country can make national news if it happens in London. In addition, Parliament is extremely London-centric. It's the capital city, sure, but that doesn't make it particularly relevant to, say, Yorkshire... or anywhere else in the UK.

>>2449728
I dunno. I've always thought that University of London was just that. LSE, UCL, KCL, QMU, RHUL and ICL all are a part of UoL but people still treat them differently. Looking at UCL's website, they have just the same units of undergraduate study as RHUL in my subject so there isn't any difference in content.

Do employers really care if Royal Holloway is in front of University of London rather than Queen Mary? I hope not for everyone's sake.

Oxbridge colleges apparently have classes together, because of the size of the towns of Oxford and Cambridge. But because London is larger, you obviously can't have classes between different colleges.

The degree says University of London. That much I do know. So if you are worried that an employer might not hold your college highly you could always not put the college on there. ;D

Pfft, a 1st Class Honours from Middlesex is better than a 3rd Class from Harvard though. amirite?

>>2449912

>Pfft, a 1st Class Honours from Middlesex is better than a 3rd Class from Harvard though. amirite?

sure : P

>>2449782

Really? Holy shit! I go to WU, what about you?