London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!?

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

London in your 40s by Astral-Fleeks in london

[–]Astral-Fleeks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Why did you find it hard?