Quote: (01-25-2016 08:27 AM)frenchcorporation Wrote:
Quote: (01-24-2016 11:57 PM)rudebwoy Wrote:
I was born and spent alot of time in London. I saw the migrant map a few weeks ago and was a bit surprised by it, I think it is a bit overblown.
Can we get feedback from people that actually live there, not keyboard jockeys that keep turning every thread into a "beware of the muslims" warning.
Comparing London to a shithole like Detroit is idiotic.
I may be a little partial, London is one of the best cities in the world.
I'm from london,born and raised etc.
I cant relate to this doom-and-gloom (wrt migrants), its more expensive and gentrified than ever. parts of inner london that were predominantely populated with ethnic minorites have been replaced, with mostly middle-class native english people.
Places like Hackney, brixton, clapham, stratford. proper shitholes becoming a lot nicer.
My commute to work , more than 9 out of ten people are white. Maybe thats not everyones experience in London but it is mine.
London does have its problems, but this migrant stuff is overblown. Poor people/low wage-earners are being pushed out of london, to places like manchester and wales. There's less and less council housing, as they are being torn down and replaced with v.expensive apartments
If anyone is going to post doom-and-gloom articles about ldn, they should state if they are actually from london, as opposed to being on the outside looking in, copying and pasting alarmist articles.
edit: There is a shitload of money to be made in London, where the fuck is this "decline" stuff coming from ??. I was flat broke 3 years ago, and now I'm partying abroad every weekend, on my own dime. I cant take people seriously who come with this defeatist attitude anymore. London isnt the problem, the people complaining in this thread are. Guys are telling on themselves.
My sister has a similar attitude. Has lived in London since university.
Her life has been Private school - Redbrick university living in central accommodation funded by daddy - high powered career in the city.
She has never really ever had to come face to face with a poor person in her life. To her, the people who serve her in restaurants and shops are just faceless drones.
She has no understanding. She thinks she's so much better than everyone else that she just dismisses everything that doesn't happen in her little bubble as not real.
It's just oh so easy for her to leave her apartment at 7am and get the train into the City and return in the evening without ever coming into contact with anyone else who is not doing the same rat run. Uber takes her directly to the high society and civil service functions she attends in the evenings and weekends. Her insulation is 100%.
I, on the other hand, despite coming from the same background, have to deal with reality, due to business, and have always enjoyed dealing with people from all walks of life. This gives one a differing perspective on things.
You speak of the gentrification of former ghettos of London like it is a good thing; but the main driver of that is foreign purchase of Central London...mostly Arabs.
Arabs who directly finance not only terrorism itself but all of the other crazy Wahhabi bullshit we see; from never ending mosque construction to women dressed as letter boxes.
This is not a good thing, never mind the insanity on the roads during Arab season (which is easy to dismiss as High Jinx but is just another example of our submission).
There are over 1 million Muslims who legally (who knows how many are illegal) call London home. Currently 12.55 of the population. Mostly poor, ill educated folk in Tower Hamlets etc.
This number has doubled in 10 years (the statistics from the census are available for all to see).
Can you not see that this growth of poor, ill-educted, often non societally productive people is bad for all concerned?
Combine that with all of the other baggage that Islam brings with it and we have a situation brewing that doesn't seem very positive to me.
I wonder if you, like my sister, would think the way you do if the Muslim population grew to 40% within your working lifetime...bringing all the problems that that percentage of Muslims brings to every society of the same make up? If the problems were not consigned to the corners of the City but actually affected your every day life.
I would like to know what makes you think that Muslims are leaving London for Wales and Manchester?
The thing is, I do live in a city that is predicted to be over 50% muslim within a generation, although it feels that way already.
Ignore the warnings of others at your peril. "I'm alright Jack" is a dangerous attitude.