Do You Have What It Takes To Become A True Londoner?

Look, we all love London, but do you have what it takes to become a true Londoner? Are you ready to …

… do the touristy stuff again and again and again and again every time someone comes to visit? If I have to discuss the merits of the London Eye once more I’m gonna blow my brains out all over the inside of one of those panoramic pods.

… begin talking to the pigeons you see on your walk to work in a vain attempt to make friends?

… have more intimate contact with strangers than your actual partners all in the hot, sticky and disturbing environment that they call the Tube?

… feel so judged by your postal code that you spend your lunch breaks browsing property adverts in the hope of reaching SW1? Hell you’ll even settle for SE25 6QT

… board the party machine that is the Night Bus (shout out for the N176!), where anything seems to go, except a lack of morals or alcohol?

… pay ยฃ20 for a cocktail that has had a better upbringing than you?

… keep telling yourself that your dingy shoe box filled with your fast-fading hopes and dreams is a promising, undeveloped home that just needs a lick of paint and a few trips to IKEA to become that Barbie Dream House?

… become disillusioned at the rank nepotism which oozes from every corner of the media industry?

… accept that you don’t have time/money to go to a cold yogalates class AND the opening of the guinea pig cafe? You have to pick one.

… see your best friend who lives on the other side of the city less than when you lived in different time zones?

… spend the same amount of time on public transport as you do re-watching old episodes of The OC and wishing Marissa had left the show earlier?

Have you answered 0-5 with yes? Sorry, but you are not going to make it. Keep it for 2/3 city trips a year.

Have you answered 5 – 10 with yes? You are going to be just screwed.

Have you answered more than 10 with yes? Congratulations! You are already a Londoner!

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9 Comments

  1. Hahaha so funny!! Don’t think I could handle London but love it for short trips!

  2. This is perfect! I’d be more than happy to visit 2/3 times a year… although seeing loved ones halfway across the globe more than family a few hours away seems my family’s specialty, so that’s one thing I could handle!

  3. Haha this is great ๐Ÿ˜€ The touristy stuff didn’t use to bother me but last time I went and got asked something after every building (what’s that nice building? why does that building look so pretty?…) I’m not sure I can handle it again ๐Ÿ˜€

    Emma xx
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