You need a few pennies to have a decent life in London. S.W London is the best ( Chelsea, Wimbledon, Fulham, Southfields, Putney). The Eastern European women have certainly increased the stock of tall, slim, clean toothed women around. But if you are actually trading day-to-day then TIME ZONE is simply the BEST !!! Wake up a bit early you can catch afternoon session HKEx, and after your 5000 calorie Greggs pie in the afternoon you can watch and play with the Yanks. I personally like foreigners especially having recently scored with a veiled Iranian babe (pulled her at Marble Arch Cafe Nero ) . Another good hunting ground is Central London lots of young and innocent Korean, South American and Japanese girls in London for English lessons and bits of travel, combined with some Ross Jeffries and David DeAngelo material,you are in for a very good time. Donno what you guys are complaining about ?!? What l don't like are the twats that sit at home all day, contribute nothing to society and refuse to intergrate with local communities. (sounds like most traders). Worst thing though is this country has one of the lowest levels of social mobility amongst OECD countries....
Things are not too bad, we could drown our sorrows after the NYSE close tomorrow. Cocktails in floridita, wardour street, left hand side of the bar 9:30pm?
There we go again pubs/booze mentioned all the time. My british mate told me- the UK is full of alcholics as the weather so damm bad, nothing to do apart from get legless inside a bar, followed by stuffing a pizza/kebab on way home whilst drunk as a lord. What a waste
The difference is these people aren't just visiting for a holiday, they've come here to live. From what I've been told, if you look at places like Australia their entry criteria includes knowing about Australian culture and history, and being able to speak the language isn't optional!
lol, exactly! The new trick is something called 'Tax Credits'. Instead of being unemployed they call themselves 'self-employed' and claim tax credits which are worth roughly 50% extra. They don't even need to work, just submit annual returns of less than the £6k tax threshhold. It's typical government massaging of statistics and leaves the welfare system open to all kinds of abuse.
Can't believe Cabletrader mentioned Australia and culture in the same sentence! As for pubs/bars then it is guilty as charged. Indeed in order to boost our medal chances in the 2012 Olympics there will be a load of new games introduced, all pub based. It is no coincidence we are world champs at darts and snooker.