Most accommodation in London includes homes that would be regarded with suspect in the rest of the United Kingdom, would only appear amongst the saddest ghettos within developing countries, and could not possibly be on the market in the rest of Europe.
Certainly, not with their actual price tags.
“Le parole sono importanti!” (words are important, Nanni Moretti): calling “London”, with one word only, a ragbag of luxury villas and shit-hole flats does not make any linguistic sense, yet it is what the game of post codes does by law, and the slums of South East (SE) may appear on the tourist guides under the same name as the penthouses overlooking Buckingham Palace.
I am finally leaving this cursed land, where millions of parasites pay top money to live like ants, to breathe a heavily polluted air, to grow old while commuting in the public transport, and only because unable to find any other employment, anywhere else, different from servicing and supporting the grandeur life of those few, rich ones (who still breath shit, however).
I see that this whole aberration will soon be over. Already London never appears anymore in the wish list of those who know, and shortly (a few years, at most) the big, wrong name “London” will excite a well different set of emotions, certainly including spite, contempt, and pity.
Sounds harsh to those who are still there, Marco.
In any case, I cannot contradict you on anything, especially on the “servicing and supporting” the grandeur life of the few rich ones.
This is a city of wannabes, people hoping to do something nicer and better and maybe relax sometime in the future. Shame that one person in a million will manage to do that, and shame that lots of us will spend our life waiting for something better to happen.
It is harsh indeed. I used the word “pity” too – should my post have any effect at all – but I doubt it – I hope it could be that of opening the eyes of “those who are still there”, so they can understand that “il futuro è adesso” (the future is now).
Maybe that building it’s not effectively so bad, surely it’s bad for the aestetic.. ..but the roofs are OK, and everything it’s OK for the life.. ..what’s essential it’s invisible to the eyes.. ..and normally you pay for what you need: a bed, a roof.. ..everything else should be payed more: elseware..