Quote: (04-02-2015 01:26 PM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:
Quote: (04-02-2015 09:22 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
Interesting thread. I lived in London for 3 years (did University there), and then for a year afterwards. I've since moved to the countryside, about an hour south of London, and I have to say I don't miss it. I'm no 'player' though, and don't mind trading off access to a high number of girls for an otherwise dramatically increased quality of life. I am country born and raised though, so take it for what it's worth. Almost all my friends work in corporate finance or commercial law in the city, and I turned down a number of those jobs before I decided to leave. I wouldn't trade places with them now, and the enormous amount of money I could have been making would have been worthless given the 18 hour workdays and constant exhaustion.
Although these guys are making a lot of money, they spend almost no time at home, have very little social life that doesn't revolve around work, and are generally too tired to have much fun anyway. From where I am, I can't see any way in which living in London represents a good life choice. The nice bits are all owned by oligarchs, arab sheiks, ultra rich hedgefunders, or old money landowners, and as has been said, you have to spend the best part of £1k/month just to live in areas that are bleak, dirty, architecturally vapid, and characterless. That shows how far out of whack the whole system is.
What do you do for work mr virus?
I'll PM you.