Play Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

Chester Zoo, you say? Next Beex Meet:Zoo Edition?

The first BEEX zoo outing was awesome, too. Must be about four years ago?

I'm down for that, gives me a chance to visit my family.

You guys and Dim and Helen, right? I think we met you afterwards in Birmingham

I'm itching to buy another one to do up.

Anywhere from the Midlands up is pretty reasonable.

I bought a 5 bedroom semi on a double plot for £150k 4 years ago, for example

:cries:

Will if the London house bubble bursts because of brexit, maybe it won't all be bad.

Not going to happen, really, I would imagine that at best it might shrink a bit.

But has she backed up her computer?

eta: for ref, my mortgage is only £477p/m though, so it's not a massive ballache to overpay. Hopefully once Olly starts school (very very soon) I'll have an extra £400 p/m kicking around and can overpay even more...

Every non-Londoner can fuck right off.

Every non-Londoner can fuck right off.

northern people

He also thought that streetlights outside of London switched off at 11pm. .

Funnily enough due to cuts, some local councils are now doing this.

Funnily enough due to cuts, some local councils are now doing this.

Mine switch off at 01:00 am (in fact the one closest to our house doesn't work, and despite repeated reporting to the council, they've not fixed it) and midnight in the winter (I guess they don't adjust for BST)

I can see what you're uncle is saying about having access to things that you don't use. It's nice knowing they are there and you could access them if you wanted to. It's one of the things I miss about London.

I'm not entirely sure that's not a bad thing to be doing for more reasons than the economic one.

Funnily enough due to cuts, some local councils are now doing this.

Things like what, though? I can't think of anything I don't have access to now that I used to have.., unless you mean specific landmarks like, I don't know, the London Aquarium.

I've lived half my life in London, and half in and around the rest of the country. Life for me outside London is better, and I think that is true of many people, as long as you don't see London itself as a self-aggrandising status symbol. My uncle does that, and so he lives in one of the five most expensive roads in the country, in South Kensington... In a basement. But it means so much to him that he can write his address in the way he does that he thinks he is several leagues above me whilst living in what is essentially an underground cupboard.

I remember once my uncle telling me that life was better in London because he could go to the cinema at midnight if he wanted. The fact that he never did didn't factor into it. He outright refused to believe that cinemas outside London showed films that late.

He also thought that streetlights outside of London switched off at 11pm.

I have no idea.

Things like what, though? I can't think of anything I don't have access to now that I used to have.., unless you mean specific landmarks like, I don't know, the London Aquarium.

The biggest thing in London's favour is Pitt Cue.

Fast food after 23:00, transport home after 22:00, decent museums, access to theaters, wanting to buy something from a shop you can walk to after midnight. Lots of things like that.

Leeds has this. Bradford probably does.

The biggest thing in London's favour is the Tube.

You know, people can live their entire lives without once even going to London.

The benefit of living in the Shire is that the Smoke is accessible but I don't need to live there. And the all-night bus back to Oxford was a real life-saver!

The biggest thing in London's favour is the Tube.

Yeah because Oxfordshire is cheap to live in.

Beer sirens that summon Craster, Grim..., Curio, Gaywood, APoD, and Bobbyaro.