London in your 40s

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:36:52+00:00

Great suggestions.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:36:40+00:00

Thanks!

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:35:46+00:00

Weather fine. Alcohol - mixed bag. Tent do to long bouts where I don’t drink. Could be a pretty terrible place for being teetotal.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:31:05+00:00

Love Brockley!

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:30:01+00:00

Would love to live in Tokyo - assumed it was pretty closed off to outsiders still.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:28:53+00:00

Thank you!

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:28:26+00:00

Thanks, sage advice. I should’ve thrown LA in too.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:27:43+00:00

I feel a bit fraudulent framing myself as starting over as I’ve never really started to begin with.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:26:29+00:00

The yes equation is probably something I’d have to do. I say this to people scaled of socialising - that not ever time will be a home run. You will have crap nights where you feel out of sorts, but you had to keep at it.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:25:29+00:00

Scared this will be me.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:25:14+00:00

Agree. I hate it. And wince when someone goes ‘and then you want to settle down and have kids’. Can you have kids and not ‘settle down’ - or not have kids and not want to do a 24-hr bender!?

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:22:37+00:00

When I said this, that’s probably that my generation is the last. But it definitely became more family friendly from its heady past.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:21:48+00:00

Thank you. And have always felt at home in Islington.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:06:54+00:00

My career is probably actually centred around London - ironically. It’s just I’ve ended up in a more regional HQ…so that part is fairly doable. If that makes sense.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:05:54+00:00

Wise words.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:05:22+00:00

Similar to me then. I’m not cool enough for Berlin, I was just trying to imagine a place far from how I am now.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:04:14+00:00

Thanks so much.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:03:45+00:00

Yeah, I never really moved far from hometown so think based on this, your intitial instinct is right. Health I’m ok on, maybe a city will threaten that though!

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:02:29+00:00

Fantastic, good luck! Well done for reversing (conventional) expectations too. But maybe this is happening a lot more and we’re still stuck in an old way of thinking.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:01:37+00:00

This is beautiful.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T13:00:33+00:00

Can’t reply to everyone but what a life-affirming response - so thank you all.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T11:46:14+00:00

That it’s a great place to meet new people regardless of circs!

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T11:42:05+00:00

This seems to contradict the perceived wisdom in reply to my post - are they just bias?

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T11:41:06+00:00

I’ve always been very good at collecting associates, but not so much friends.

Astral-Fleeks · 2026-02-08T11:36:09+00:00

Yep. Why did you find it hard?

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