On 25/05/2013 07:35, Col wrote:
"Adam Lea" wrote in message

*sigh*. I kind of hoped that on a scientific newsgroup people would have
more intelligence than to resort to ridiculous negative sweeping
generalisations such as this, but there you go. Very disappointing.

Agreed.
I've my arguments on here regarding London centricity, a topic I
studiously avoid these days but that comment was just plain idiotic.


Maybe I lashed out, but I don't take a single word back. I lived and
worked in London for a year, and found almost all the "London bred" to
be arrogant, self-centred, selfish with no care for anyone else not of
the same ilk. I was glad to get out of it after that year and passed up
a very well paid job not to stay there any longer. The folk I worked
with were all non-Londoners, which made the job bearable. But as for
social life, we were on our own, and made no friends while we were there.

I was brought up in Wolverhampton for 10 years, and the few times I've
been back there, I've found almost everyone friendly and warm, even the
immigrants. The complete opposite of London. Lawrence got my back right
up with his comment that London was the "most important city in the UK".
That is absolute rubbish. Every city, town, village and hamlet has its
part to play in this country, and each and every one of them is as
important as the rest. It's just that London seems to think it's more
important than anywhere else.

My sister moved to London and worked there for almost 35 years. She then
moved out to the country, and apart from one other ex-Londoner has no
friends in that village. Even her own neighbours don't want to know her.
She is completely different morally from how the pair of us were brought
up. I will no longer have anything to do with her. The last I heard she
was going to move back. She only has one thing on her mind, herself.

I live in Northampton, and in the 1970's a lot of Londoners, mainly from
the East End, were relocated to this town. Almost all of them now would
not dream of going back there, and consider those who live in the city
as pompous, stuck up prigs (their words, not mine). Friends who work in
the city come home at the weekend and sigh with relief at having got
away from it all for a few days. I'm not alone in my views. A lot of
people in this town feel exactly the same as I do.

Sorry if I offended anyone, but that's how it is.

jim, Northampton