A very similar situation to me. I lived in London from 1981 to 1992 and a big majority of my colleagues in the software companies I worked for were not from London.

Mrs DaveO was met when working for one company and she is from Barnsley. We still have a great group of friends from that time who we go away with every new year and next year it will be 20 years of doing so. All met when working down there and they include two Scots, one Welsh with only one from London and another "southerner" from Leicester. The rest were all from north of Watford Gap.

Before buying my own place I shared flats/houses with a total of 9 other people only one of whom came from London.

Londoners were a rare species!

A great place to live for a while particularly when you are young and do not have kids. I get very nostalgic for those days whenever I visit but forget all the times I spent stuck on tube trains commuting or cursing the fact someone had inconveniently thrown themselves under a train etc.

The reason you don't meet many Londoners is because it's full of you northern leeches. SImple really.

Coming down telling us they're from God's country which is ironic as so many of the feckers choose to live in London.

Where do you live these days RB?

London is a cosmopolitan city, that's the point of London.

Northern leeches, keeping London on its feet.
How dare they?

I didn't realise keeping London on its feet meant being able to say the sentence

"has thee got any spur change meat"




I only got 2 chomps? Nice to see people from opposing political sides actually getting together. I like that. The world needs more of it.