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barrkel wrote: | jjdugen wrote: | This is not intended as a wind up question, I'm just really curious.
WHY do the stupidly rich CHOOSE to live in central London? I know that a lot of the recent development is used as hedges for foreign investors (why?), but there are a large number with actual residences in central London. You can't drive, park, walk, breath fresh air. You live cheek to jowl in area more crowded than the old slums in Salford. Rates, sky high, not that it probably matters to 'them'. Why? Just... WHY? |
Because other places are cookie cutter town centres filled with chain stores and mediocre services.
If your preferred pleasures in life involve civilisation, you want to live in a dense area. If you prefer the outdoors, city life won't appeal.
I'm not stupidly rich, but paid well enough to enjoy most of London, and for me it's about 50% fine dining and excellent wine, 20% well-compensated work, 10% niche consumption / shops you can't find anywhere else, and 10% other entertainment, whether it's festivals, theatre, exhibitions etc., and 10% energy - just the energy of the streets, most people here are from somewhere else, ambitious to achieve things. |
The only good thing about London's there are a million ways to get out of it. |
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Crikey, it seems that firepersons were already on scene, had actually put out the fridge fire, and were leaving when the outside of the building lit up.
Still no definitive word on whether that cladding was prohibited or not.
If prohibited, corporate manslaughter, minimum.
If allowed, Sir Humphrey will be up for early retirement. What, you think politicians actually write laws and regulations? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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I watched the Panorama programme this morning. Very strange, adds more credence to the claim something was going on possibly behind the cladding. Oh and no one will get 'done' for it, managers spend all their time absolving themselves of accountability. |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40357280
£1.5million luxury flats to be given out to residents of Grenfel Tower. Complete with own private cinema and 24hr concierge.
I bet the people who paid up for these flats are THRILLED to be having the population of Little Somalia and New Syria moving in with them. |
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127 flats pre-cleansing.
68 flats in Toffington Towers.
59 total losses?
Or much "Where my concierge at?" bawwing? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 302 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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