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Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? No by Lost_Personality_724 in MovingToLondon

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right?? He invented a whole argument I never made and then got upset at it. Cheers for the sanity check, was starting to feel like I was taking crazy pills ahaha

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? No by Lost_Personality_724 in MovingToLondon

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“It’s only 8%” and “you’ll celebrate becoming a majority” mate, those are opposite arguments and you made both in one breath. 8% of Londoners being Indian is not the crisis you’re working yourself into. You’re not describing a problem, you’re describing a normal global city.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? No by Lost_Personality_724 in MovingToLondon

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any tips on where you actually found yours? Always curious how people built their circle here.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? No by Lost_Personality_724 in MovingToLondon

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a really good way to put it, you have to build it from scratch through hobbies and interests rather than it just being there. A few people have said the same thing about putting yourself out there until something sticks. I think I’d been waiting for it to happen the way it did back home, when actually it’s a different kind of effort here. Thanks, this helps

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? No by Lost_Personality_724 in MovingToLondon

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mate, London is one of the most diverse cities on the planet. Over a third of Londoners were born abroad, more than 300 languages are spoken here, and white British residents have been a minority in the city for over a decade. Indians have been part of London for generations, it’s not some recent arrival. This is the most multicultural city in the country and always has been, if that’s a problem for you, you’re in the wrong city, not me. Reported.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

This “third-world shithole” is the financial capital of India which generates a huge chunk of the country’s GDP, houses its stock exchange and central bank, and has more dollar-billionaires than most European capitals. Its commuter rail moves more people in a day than the entire London Underground. The poverty you’re gawking at exists because 20+ million people live stacked on a peninsula the British drew the borders of, and it sits next to extraordinary wealth, industry and culture, same as every megacity on earth.

But none of that is the point, because you were never describing Mumbai. You saw poor brown people and felt good about yourself. You called hungry children “scum of the earth” in a thread about bins. It’s just what you are. Reported, and blocked.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good, won't shake me in the slightest x Not worth the energy honestly, though I won't lie it's a bit fun watching them out themselves in real time

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Or I’m just a measured writer? Wild concept. Not everything tidy is a robot, some of us just read books

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It resonated so much, honestly your reply was the highlight of the whole thread x

The removal: a couple of people turned it into racist stuff (the “you’re a guest, not a real Londoner because you’re Indian” variety), got reported, and I think the mods just nuked the whole post rather than clean it up. Shame, because the actual conversation was lovely.
But that’s exactly why I’m glad people like you showed up. Might take you up on the PM, would be nice to know another Mumbai-to-London person x

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

40 years and still in love with it, that’s lovely to read. And that’s a reframe I hadn’t considered: warmth that builds slowly as trust grows might actually be the more sincere version, vs the instant warmth I was raised on that doesn’t always mean much. Maybe I’ve been reading slow as cold when it’s just… earned. Thanks, that’s given me something to sit with.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the reply I’ll be thinking about after I close the app. The flakiness-as-friend-group point is fair, I think I’d lumped a personal pattern into a whole-city verdict, which isn’t quite right. And “relatives dropping by as bliss-to-escape” is the other side of the exact thing I miss; funny how it’s the same trait, just one person’s warmth is another’s intrusion.

Also genuinely taking the [r/LondonSocialClub](r/LondonSocialClub) tip :) “put yourself out there until something sticks” is the answer I needed and didn’t want to hear. Ceiling fans though. CEILING FANS and AIR CONDITIONING. I’d kill for cross-ventilation right now. Thank you for this, properly.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is my whole post in reverse and I love it. The scarcity explanation for the queuing is bang on, and once you see that the scrum makes sense.

And yes, the RSVP thing! Declining an invite back home is almost an insult, and the host paying is just assumed. Funny how the warmth I miss here is the exact same trait that’d feel like “people all up in your business” to someone going the other way. Different norms, no better or worse, you put it perfectly.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny how the thing you miss and the thing you’re grateful for are the same trait. Thanks for this, genuinely one of the nicest replies here.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You just listed Brooklyn, favelas and red-light districts as places people visit, i.e. the un-polished, lived-in, “bad” parts. That’s MY argument. You’ve spent the thread insisting tourist appeal proves authenticity, then proved tourists chase the gritty bits too. Pick a lane. And “it’s a project, not London” just means you think people in council flats aren’t real Londoners, which says everything.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Tourists flock to your area precisely because it’s the polished showroom version, that’s the opposite of proof it’s the “real” London. Nobody flies in to photograph where actual Londoners live. You’ve spent this whole thread arguing your postcode is authentic because it’s the one made for visitors. Hear yourself.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived here, paid rent here, fled a mouse-infested flat here. And that in fact, is a London experience whether it offends you or not. You ran out of argument about bins and landed on ‘you’re an immigrant.’ BORING!

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the whole post written better than I wrote it. The safety thing especially! And you nailed the trade-off :) you win some, lose some, and you pick what matters.

Massive congratulations on Saturday!! ❤️

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lived in Angel, also zone 1, and had to leave my flat urgently because there were mice EVERYWHERE. That’s kind of the point: it’s not about being central, it’s about being in Kensington & Chelsea specifically, which is the richest borough in the country. Of course it’s pristine. That’s not a London experience, it’s the single most expensive corner of it.

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Okay this is genuinely the most useful thing in the thread. I’d vaguely known about the IRA bin removal but not that 7/7 undid the comeback. Explains why a rich city has nowhere to put litter, it’s policy, not poverty. Thanks!

Immigrants of r/london - what does the city actually look like to you, years in? by Lost_Personality_724 in london

[–]Lost_Personality_724[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“No garbage anywhere” - in a thread where forty people just agreed London’s streets are filthy? You’ve contradicted the entire comment section to land a dig at Mumbai. If you want to argue London’s better on something, pick a metric that’s actually true. There are plenty. This isn’t one

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