# Advice on moving to London **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404 "2008-02-27T19:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/61 "2008-03-05T14:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Yeah, but when he gets here, then the name will no longer be relevant and he’ll have to change it to “Current Londonite”. [/QUOTE] This had occured to me. [QUOTE=jjimm] Then again, he could grow into the persona “Future Londonite” by painting himself silver and acting like a robot. [/QUOTE] This hadn’t. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/62 "2008-03-05T15:28:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Koxinga > I just had to ask: what does it mean when one must get one’s kicks in Stepney and not in Knightsbridge anymore? From Play with Fire by the Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/63 "2008-03-05T16:41:57Z")
Hhmm good call on the name, didn’t quite think that through. I’ll probably ask the admins to change it - don’t think my new boss would be pleased to see me show up painted silver each day. Illuminatiprimus - I know no one except one person at work. She lives in St. Albans so I doubt I will see much of her outside of work. Then again I knew no one when I moved to the US and later to Germany. ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/64 "2008-03-05T19:05:02Z")
Ok, time to ask the dumb question then. **Future Londonite, Angua** : When are you likely to be around in London? ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/65 "2008-03-05T19:15:25Z")
[QUOTE=CatInASuit] Ok, time to ask the dumb question then. **Future Londonite, Angua** : When are you likely to be around in London? [/QUOTE] Well my first day of work is going to be on April 14th. For the first few weeks till I find a (temporary) place of my own I will be, highly likely, staying at the Marriott Regents Park ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/66 "2008-03-05T19:19:06Z")
Wow - someone’s made of money! Unless your work are paying for you, that is. Well, maybe we could organise a dopefest for the week after you start work then, say w/c 21st? My vote is for somewhere central this time though. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/67 "2008-03-05T20:04:22Z")
[QUOTE=CatInASuit] Ok, time to ask the dumb question then. **Future Londonite, Angua** : When are you likely to be around in London? [/QUOTE] Now there’s a good question – I tend to be around once a month, nothing’s decided for the April timeframe yet, so I’m sure I could be flexible… In the past we’ve always had good luck with the Silver Cross or the Chandos or the Princess Louise. All of which are reasonably central… ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/68 "2008-03-05T20:06:40Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] Now there’s a good question – I tend to be around once a month, nothing’s decided for the April timeframe yet, so I’m sure I could be flexible… In the past we’ve always had good luck with the Silver Cross or the Chandos or the Princess Louise. All of which are reasonably central… [/QUOTE] The Chandos by Charing Cross I know of. I was going to suggest the Doggett’s or Founders Arms by Blackfriars bridge as alternatives. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/69 "2008-03-05T21:36:02Z")
Course the problem with the Chandos tends to be someone has to get there early enough to colonise enough space – the big sofas upstairs are always good… ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/70 "2008-03-05T22:01:42Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] Wow - someone’s made of money! Unless your work are paying for you, that is. Well, maybe we could organise a dopefest for the week after you start work then, say w/c 21st? My vote is for somewhere central this time though. [/QUOTE] I’m not made of money, sorry to disappoint you…Work will be paying for the hotel ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/71 "2008-03-06T00:13:31Z")
[QUOTE=KRM] As a know-nothing Yank, I’m curious what’s wrong with Luton? It looks OK on Google Earth. [/QUOTE] It history of economic story of boom thanks to manufacturing industries followed by massive decline makes it something of a ‘northern town in the south’, having much more in common with towns in places such as Lancashire and Yorkshire than with its surroundings. It’s now got deeply-entrenched poverty, and you can add to this the very difficult racial tensions and very real social and physical divides between white and minority communties which have started to appear in some of these towns. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/72 "2008-03-06T09:58:40Z")
[QUOTE=CatInASuit] The Chandos by Charing Cross I know of. I was going to suggest the Doggett’s or Founders Arms by Blackfriars bridge as alternatives. [/QUOTE] Blackfriars bridge sounds like an excellent idea - not least because I work two minutes from there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/73 "2008-03-07T08:30:13Z")
Any of these sound fine with me…just give me enough time to figure which combo of tubes to take to get there 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/74 "2008-03-07T10:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] Course the problem with the Chandos tends to be someone has to get there early enough to colonise enough space – the big sofas upstairs are always good… [/QUOTE] When have me and **Confessor Knight** _not_ been there since opening time? If we’re doing one then the Chandos would be my preferred location - Doggetts and Founders are fine but we’re heading into weekend tourist season by April and they’re always packed on saturdays unless the weather is decent enough to sit outside, which in April is no guarantee! Plus the Chandos is a Sam Smith’s and I’m a cheap bastard. 😃 (Alternatively the Silver Cross has, as you say, always done us well in the past - do they still allow you to reserve the bottom section though?) ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/75 "2008-03-07T10:17:51Z")
Just to add to that, the Prinny Lou _is_ open again (and my god is she beautiful) but they’ve done a _proper_ restoration job on her - meaning the snob screens are back. So basically she’s now another one where you need to get there early enough to stake out the back section (or hope the upstairs is open), else there’s no guarantee you’ll end up with enough room for people to spread out. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/76 "2008-03-07T10:24:28Z")
[QUOTE=garius] When have me and **Confessor Knight** _not_ been there since opening time? [/quote] True. If only because you want to see how wasted you can get **Confessor Knight**. 😛 And _I_ would be there at opening time, but somehow, **Bonzer** never wants to be… > [@](#): > > (Alternatively the Silver Cross has, as you say, always done us well in the past - do they still allow you to reserve the bottom section though?) Not sure. I think **Ianzin’s** the authority there. I do know that last time I was able to reserve the little raised bit on the ground floor just to the side of the bar… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/77 "2008-03-07T10:27:28Z")
Oh yeah - that subsectiony bit on the Right. That’s not bad. Think the last time i was in there was the first day of the smoking ban! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/78 "2008-03-07T13:21:00Z")
Am I baking again then? ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/79 "2008-03-07T13:43:50Z")
How many London/Greater London Dopersr are there? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404/80 "2008-03-07T15:46:31Z")
[QUOTE=Future Londonite] How many London/Greater London Dopersr are there? [/QUOTE] A fair few, plus a fair few who lurk but don’t post anymore so may turn up anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-moving-to-london/439404.md?page=5)