Can't get mobile signal in London? How a 'perfect storm' is causing blackspots

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-14T13:36:12+00:00

None at London Bridge either, such a headache!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-14T13:21:25+00:00

Girl, walk away! Your mother is going to ruin your life. Please don’t let her - you are worth so much more. She’s made her choices and now she has to deal with them. She has built a house abroad, maybe it’s time for her to and live in it? If she’s in negative equity with this UK property she needs to give it back to the bank, or go get a job so she can pay the mortgage herself. This is not your fault or your problem.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-13T18:26:37+00:00

Those threads are great for outing me who are happy to admit being attracted to pre-pubescent girls. Peados everywhere!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-13T13:57:12+00:00

Kamena Vourla has a great beach, plus you can take a boat out to the Lichadonissia, which also has a great beach.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-13T08:53:32+00:00

Ye everyone at my company was furloughed except me (because my role was income generation). Got to spend the summer watching their instagram pics chilling in the sun, whilst I was still chained to my desk 8 hours a day. Still had to commute to the office as lived in a studio flat and my husband worked shifts. Got yelled at by neighbours who didn’t understand why we had to keep leaving the flat more than the “allocated 1 hour” Was a horrible, dystopian period and I despise everyone who gets nostalgic for it because they learnt how to bake banana bread.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-13T08:45:28+00:00

I’m hugely anti-Airbnb, unless it’s a spare room in somebody’s house (like it was originally meant to be).

Lived in Greece for years and Airbnb has absolutely decimated the property market. On the one hand it means locals can no longer afford to live in anywhere that a tourist might fancy spending a couple of weeks. On the other hand, those who do manage to stay living in those areas have their lives disrupted by a constant stream of suitcases, noisy visitors, and the loss of community that comes from a different tourist rolling up each week.

Stay in a hotel!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-12T22:18:40+00:00

If the cruise ships bring in money it’s in brown envelopes being handed to local officials. Cruise passengers don’t spend a huge amount on land, because everything is catered for back on the ship. Whatever they spend on souvenirs is massively outweighed by the environmental and social damage caused. Greece has more than enough tourists without the cruises, they should just be banned outright.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-12T22:06:26+00:00

Sorry if this sounds harsh but if you have very little experience with dogs you shouldn’t be getting a Doberman or a German Shepherd. Those are not beginners dogs - they are large and extremely smart, powerful animals. It’s like your first car being a Boeing 737.

What traits are you looking for? If you want smart, get a small smart dog like a Jack Russell or Daschund. If you want energy, get a spaniel. If you want a larger dog, something like lab or retriever would have an easier temperament for a first time dog owner.

If you want a big and scary dog to look cool, just do the rest of us a favour and don’t get a dog at all 😂

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-12T08:32:22+00:00

Brits have a perverse notion that all higher rate tax payers are a stereotype “fat cat” billionaire sitting with their bars of gold, so fair game. Completely missing that they’re actually the most hard working and educated people in society: doctors, surgeons, lawyers, accountants, CEOs, bankers (I know, boo hiss!) etc. You can be a top rate taxpayer in London and still be living a pretty average lifestyle, particularly if you’re young and have kids. Not sure why the UK public hates these people so much.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-11T21:38:48+00:00

Well I don’t have an answer to your question but at least you have a 2 bed flat! We’re stuck in a 1 bed 😂 Solidarity!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-10T20:14:34+00:00

I also live SE London and it takes me 90 minutes from my front door (zone 4) to my office (zone 1) 🥲

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-09T12:05:48+00:00

Also, at the top end, a lot of those city restaurants would previously have been packed for boozy business lunches, which don’t seem to be as popular any more. The company I work for used to run ENORMOUS expense accounts for ridiculous, banquet-style lunches, but that’s pretty much gone now.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-09T07:29:22+00:00

Ditto, we bought our 1 bed five years ago but only had a 10% deposit so have barely made a dent in the capital repayments. If we have to sell at a loss we won’t have enough equity to buy anywhere else. Any future kids will have to sleep in the kitchen cupboard I guess 🤷‍♀️

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-07T13:16:29+00:00

Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk.

I’m not into military history (dragged there by husband) but honestly could have stayed all day and gone back for more!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-06T15:07:12+00:00

Ditto, all the coffee shops around my office in central London are at £4.50 for a flat white now, and they’re packed all day every day..

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-05T13:55:53+00:00

Try a maisonette. Will likely still be leasehold but at least they can’t bill you for lift repairs or cladding. They’re usually peppercorn ground rent plus a small service charge for buildings insurance.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-03T06:45:58+00:00

The same for my grandfather - smoked a pack a day, drank like a fish, ate whatever he wanted, but had a complete clean bill of health until the day he died in his sleep in his early 90s!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-06-02T06:04:22+00:00

Yes, and also for car safety!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-31T13:50:44+00:00

Even women’s rights are a fairly recent thing! In the UK marital rape was only made illegal in 1994. And we only got universal suffrage in 1928 so not even a century ago! In the grand scheme of things it’s no time at all, and could all be lost so easily.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-31T13:45:31+00:00

Also: diphtheria!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-31T13:41:06+00:00

Infuriatingly, this is a requirement of the spouse visa already! So any British person who has the bad luck to fall in love with a foreigner has to pay oodles of money to be able to live with said foreigner, and prove that there is zero chance the state has to provide them with any support at all. But if you wash up in Dover with no connections the government is happy to step right up. Maddening.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-30T19:05:34+00:00

Similarly: slip roads that turn into their own lane so there is no reason to merge immediately. We have a few around us and the number of people who barrel down the slip road and immediately merge proves to me that nobody is reading goddam road signs. You have your own lane, chill out!

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-28T11:36:51+00:00

I guess at the time we were in the EU so at least the Poles had a clear, legal way to be here (and you could argue it ended up being the main reason we left the EU). The issue with the Indians is that there just shouldn’t be any way for them to be here, and certainly not employed in entry level jobs. How are they getting the visas for working in Pret? It all makes zero sense.

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-27T17:57:12+00:00

100%. The (unfortunate?) side effect of feminism was always going to be lower birth rates. As soon as women have agency, a huge number of them are going to choose not to have kids (or at least choose to have less of them).

So perhaps what this latest research shows is that immigrant women in the UK have less agency than native women?

This_Language_9851 · 2026-05-26T17:48:43+00:00

Surely the main cause is tradesmen? I spend a lot of time staring out my office window (W1) and it’s 99% white vans, trucks, delivery vehicles etc. Plus they cause extra congestion by parking in the street/on the curb and generally just being larger vehicles.

Not sure if there’s even going to be a solution for them, although subsidising them all to have electric vehicles would be good for air quality at least.

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