1. Having more freedom growing up than people who lived in the countryside.
Sure you got to run around in the fields. But age eleven we were given a bus pass, or a Zip card, which meant unlimited travel for free, 24 hours a day. Sure you had a back garden, well we had the whole bus network.
2. Buses being the place to be.
Your friends were the ones who took the same bus as you to school, and it was where most of the goss went down.
3. Ditching your tiny school playground for the park.
Which was often pretty nice. Playing hockey in Regent’s Park, and having your sports day on Hamstead Heath is pretty cool. And some schools have their playgrounds on the roof, which is awesome.
4. Never wanting to leave the park.
We knew which ones were too scary, which ones kept the street lights on all night and where all the holes in the fences were.
5. Being the weird, scary teenager on the night bus.
We apologise for the screeching. And the rabbits… actually there were only rabbits this one time.
6. Not having any snow days ever.
There was one in 2008… that’s it. Also snow is brow right?
7. Tube strikes being amazing.
A bit like our version of snow days, because none of the teachers could get into work.
8. Being disappointed in the nightlife when you leave London.
It’s weird when some of the first clubs you ever went to were some of the best. Except Cheapskates, don’t make us go to Cheapskates again.
9. Not learning to drive.
We don’t get why having a green driving license is embarrassing, we have an Oyster card, not having one of them would be embarrassing.
10. And never moving out.
It’s hard to justify moving out when it would cost you £600 a month to live a lot less centrally than your parents do.
11. Refusing to cross the Thames.
Will not cross unless absolutely necessary. Passing through Marble Arch is also scary. It’s another world on the other side.
12. Having an encyclopedic knowledge of the tube map.
And thinking it’s embarrassing when people don’t.
13. Really cool school trips.
Casual day out to the National History Museum, don’t mind if I do. Also major respect to the teachers who took us on the tube, that must have been mega stressful.
14. Never visiting a tourist attraction.
It’s embarrassing when a tourist asks us where Buckingham Palace is, and we realise we don’t know.
15. No other place really compares to London.
There is always something to do, a new food to try, a bar you have never heard of, a museum you haven’t been too. Love you London. <3
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