Fog
foreign money (some of it rather shady) has priced Londoners (like me) out of london.

 
Rock star and royalty money priced yokels like me out of Gloucestershire.

Wibbles
Central London is 98.5% tourist (who seem to think the best time to travel on the Tube is during rush hour).

Kamikaze

Beepster
Never mind the bleedin' phone boxes. London is filled with friggen' LONDONERS!
 
I mean, it's like they're everywhere, man. It's freaky.
 
:p

Many Londoners would argue that its not the Figgn' Londoners filling the place up.
 
The Welsh may argue that Wales is being filled up by friggin' Londoners.
 
Brightonians, would argue that Brighton isn't being filled up by friggin' Londoners, but they are by all the properties and renting out at Friggin' London prices.

When I lived there 30 years ago, 20 million commuted to London every day from the home counties and surrounding areas... and that was in addition to the tourists.
 
I'm sure the figures are much higher now.
 
Personally, I always found Londoners to be extremely friendly, and very cosmopolitan. 
 
When people in other parts of the UK refer to "Londoners", they're usually talking about people from the South East of England in general, who (generally speaking), are not nearly as cosmopolitan as those living in London itself.
 

msmcleod
 
When I lived there 30 years ago, 20 million commuted to London every day from the home counties and surrounding areas... and that was in addition to the tourists.
 
I'm sure the figures are much higher now.
 
Personally, I always found Londoners to be extremely friendly, and very cosmopolitan. 
 
When people in other parts of the UK refer to "Londoners", they're usually talking about people from the South East of England in general, who (generally speaking), are not nearly as cosmopolitan as those living in London itself.
 

That figure is nearer 300,000 than 20 million.
 
I've found people in London and the South East to be exactly no less friendly than people from other parts of the UK. 
 
The whole idea that Northerners are more friendly than Southerners is a lie made up to make them feel better about living in a post-industrial wasteland.

Wibbles

msmcleod
 
When I lived there 30 years ago, 20 million commuted to London every day from the home counties and surrounding areas... and that was in addition to the tourists.

I'm sure the figures are much higher now.

Personally, I always found Londoners to be extremely friendly, and very cosmopolitan. 

When people in other parts of the UK refer to "Londoners", they're usually talking about people from the South East of England in general, who (generally speaking), are not nearly as cosmopolitan as those living in London itself.
 

That figure is nearer 300,000 than 20 million.
 
I've found people in London and the South East to be exactly no less friendly than people from other parts of the UK. 
 
The whole idea that Northerners are more friendly than Southerners is a lie made up to make them feel better about living in a post-industrial wasteland.

I wasn't saying that they were less friendly - I lived in the home counties for nearly 20 years - but I did get the feeling that they were more stuck in their ways, and less interested in other cultures.
 
I had long hair in the 80's, and would constantly get "judged" or stereo-typed by people in the town my parents lived in. The villages were even worse (actually, I think villages ANYWHERE in the UK are like this). I never got this in London, where people really didn't care what you looked like.
 

I think that would depend on what part of London you're talking about, in some parts of London they would care deeply.
 
But, I don't disagree with anything you say.

The bigger problem is that Earth is overrun with humans.  There are a few good ones, but mostly no.  We need help.

My village was full of long haired locals in the 80's. And some mighty sideburns. Especially the Farriers opposite, but my Londoner dad too.

msmcleod
 
 
I wasn't saying that they were less friendly - I lived in the home counties for nearly 20 years - but I did get the feeling that they were more stuck in their ways, and less interested in other cultures.
 
 

 
That pretty much describes this area. There are people in Newton Stewart that have never been outside of it. I had a customer who told me she'd been to Dumfries once, on the bus, but never again...

Seems similar to  many cities here with influx of newcomers, although phone booths are slowly disappearing here because of cell phones. 
 
Living close to certain things becomes desirable. Real estate prices go up. This crowds out the smaller guy.Only those with more money stay in the city which drives the prices up further. Many commute, the rest want no parts of it. I am really in that last group. I commute to a desirable city. I could live there if I wanted a huge mortgage. I decided I would rather drive there and live in the country....me and about 100,000 others Can't wait to retire.

London phone boxes have three functions.

Urinals for drunks.
Space for posting prostitute's calling cards.
Phone calls.

Mobile phones and the internet have diminished their importance for the last two, but not the first.