Rude Londoners??

[Anonymous]

My youngest Daughter (19) has just returned from a short stay in London with some of her college pals, She did not come away with a good impression of Londoners. She was actually quite flabergasted at the rudeness and ignorance she faced. She told me that not once during her stay did anyone use Please or Thank you, even in shops and restraunts. In shops she tells me that shop assistants could not even be bothered to lift their heads or turn round to face her when she was speaking to them. She has been to New York 3 times in her life which has the reputation of being a very rude city but said she would take a New Yorker over a Londoner any day., My wife has to travel to London at least 3 times a month for work and has the same impression of the English capital. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

I would be interested to hear what our Forum London crew has to say regarding this as they all seem polite enough on here.

 

[Dreamer]

New York has a rep as being rude?? Not in my experience by a long way.

As for London, i've lived here 12 years now and its certainly the most aggressive city i know of. Even when i've been in the slums of Rio and people are armed ive seen more politeness!

London's a place in its own right compared with the rest of the country, im sure i've read that it has a population bigger than Scotland and Ireland combined.

You get used to the attitude and get VERY VERY suprised when you leave the capital and people actually talk to you! A stranger sparking up a conversation with me??!!! Why, what do they want????

 

[micz4]

As a Londoner who is exiled in Hampshire and hasn't lived there for 20 years i can only agree.I don't even go back to visit as it's nothing like the city of my youth.

 

[bluestreak56]

All depends on which part of London she stayed in if you ask me. Yes the majority of the younger generation of Londoners are quite rude and pompous but not all of us are so bad..

 

[Anonymous]

You get used to the attitude and get VERY VERY suprised when you leave the capital and people actually talk to you! A stranger sparking up a conversation with me??!!! Why, what do they want????

Alot of londers up and down to my work place all the time, always wondered what that strange look was when starting a non work related conversation with them.

 

[flimper]

You get used to the attitude and get VERY VERY suprised when you leave the capital and people actually talk to you! A stranger sparking up a conversation with me??!!! Why, what do they want????

Absolutely spot on. Lived in Ealing for a while and hated the place and the people. Would love to move oop north, been to York, Blackpool, Manchester, Stoke, all very friendly

 

[Bing]

Too many people, many 'transient' commuters even from inside the M25, loads of tourists, everyone is only concerned with themselves... It can seem very unfriendly and strangely very lonely. Lived there for 5 years when I graduated, moved out when I got married and had our son - simply because I'd never bring a family up there, at least not in the places I could afford to live. I will have more to say on this, but need to finish work first !

 

[Anonymous]

All depends on which part of London she stayed in if you ask me. Yes the majority of the younger generation of Londoners are quite rude and pompous but not all of us are so bad..

Think she was somewhere near the town centre as she went on that big ferris wheel thing.
She saw a couple of shows as well, Billy Elliot and Wicked, said something about a big house at the end of a road with big metal gates she had seen on telly a few times. and medium sized clock that is on the news every night.


Strange though.....No tractors :? :? :?

 

[JimmyPop]

I've visited London a fair few times and the most striking thing I found was how aggressive the commuters were! Up here you manage to get a friendly smile, nod or acknowledgement from most people on your daily commute but not a chance in London. I thought most of the people in shops, etc. weren't actually too bad and no worse that some of the ignorant sods you get in most Glasgow city centre shops nowadays!

 

[pvr]

I quite like going to London as it feels as a reasonable safe city compared to some of the others I have been to. Barcelona for example is to me a city so rotten that I never want to go back, robbers and thieves everywhere.

I used to go to London everyday for business, but in the last 5 years only visit in very, very occasionally. Most visits now are social and if you can survive the trains - all is fine

 

[Anonymous]

Amsterdam for me, love the place. and not for all the wrong reasons

have been there in total 15 times and love it everytime, friendliest people on the planet IMO the Dutch

 

[pvr]

Amsterdam for me, love the place. and not for all the wrong reasons

have been there in total 15 times and love it everytime, friendliest people on the planet IMO the Dutch

And that is without having met me

 

[cj_eds]

The roads the closer to London you get the more aggressive the driving. And similarly when I lived in Cambridgeshire colleagues who lived further South seemed astonished that I actually knew my neighbour's names!

 

[2dogs]

Amsterdam for me, love the place. and not for all the wrong reasons

have been there in total 15 times and love it everytime, friendliest people on the planet IMO the Dutch

+1 as for london, wouldn't stop to p@ss there :thumbsdown:
total shite hole.

 

[marchantsuk]

I've visited London a fair few times and the most striking thing I found was how aggressive the commuters were!
The scary thing is, after spending extended time there (I'm talking a few weeks) you become the same. People stop to read the tube maps and all you can think is 'get the f@;k out of the way.
I only go for the odd day now and can't wait to leave.

 

[flimper]

friendliest people on the planet IMO the Dutch

Agree with that, had some great times drinking with the Dutch fans after Barneveld won the darts a few years back :cheers:

 

[a11y]

Wow, I'd expect at least one person would defend London but I'm wrong

It's not a place I've spent any great length of time and have no plans to (I'd have loved tickets for some of the Olympic events but purposefully avoided applying due to location), but one story from my youth still cracks me up: family holiday with mum, dad and sister in 1996. Travelling in from Crystal Palace to the centre via bus/underground via Brixton. This was only 12 months after the riots. Being the only white people (including the staff) in Pizza Hut slapbang in the middle of Brixton, but the people couldn't have been friendlier!

 

[TINO]

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[Adamski]

I was in London for a course with my old work. Commute on the tube was a nightmare. Wouldn't want to work there for any length of time. The only friendliness was in the hotel and restaurant we were in. Think it was Ramada Hyde Park. Dunno if it even exists anymore...

One thing that infuriated me back in November 2010 at City Inn Westminster - was on a weekend break with the mrs - tried to pay with Scottish £££. Refused in hotel bar. Only took Euro or English notes....


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[Bing]

The scary thing is, after spending extended time there (I'm talking a few weeks) you become the same. People stop to read the tube maps and all you can think is 'get the f@;k out of the way.
I only go for the odd day now and can't wait to leave.

Agreed, shamefully, though I like to think I brought my manners with me still - I have to go into London quite a lot and I always try too look before I change walking direction, say thanks or excuse me, and be polite in the constant crowds. It can be a great place, but the sheer weight of people seems to force people to focus in on themselves - I don't think it is deliberate animosity on the whole, just a function of the environment. The Square Mile demonstrates this perfectly - at the weekend there is no-one about at all, it's dead - only a few pubs and clubs in some places. During the week it is rammed, but the people only go there to work, most because they have to, and many are miserable and self-absorbed as a result. I think after a longer time - years - you just get used to it and learn to enjoy the place for what it has, and your own circle of friends. Then you move outside the M25 and become an angry commuter again if you're really unlucky... But then that's fine because actually if you can get home real fast you'll be happy again...

As for not accepting Scotish money...Don't. Get. Me. Started... :roll: