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Originally Posted by Zizu
Yeah I went a few years ago and expected to see a dump but it was a beautiful city
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It sure is. I’d be asking anyone who dumps on it if they’ve actually ever been. Especially to the nicer areas beyond just town. There’s beauty up and down the UK and the rest of the world but for some people being contained to an insular Southern bubble is a flex. Reality-checking says otherwise, still. There are certain things London has to offer (at least on a certain scale) that are unique to just there or at least other mega-cities but even taking that into account there’s more cohesive history and authenticity in places like Liverpool, and better value for money if you’re not stinking-rich. A consultant surgeon in Liverpool could effectively afford a 5-bedroom mini-mansion by where the likes of Steven Gerrard live but in London there are still doctors who are trying to make it out of Peckham but just want to be in London at whatever cost and price so have to stay put until they can afford to move to a better area. Not good.
And I’m not saying a city that has so much diversity in chocka numbers, variety and blah-de-blah is awful. But unless you’ve got money to burn it’s not that great to live in at the best of times either and it can feel a little soulless and overly out-for-self sometimes. So you’ve just got to remember the underrated underdogs and tap in if-and-when. Liverpool’s always there to touch base with whenever you need to. Being the pool of life. You take your sip from it and go wherever you need to go, whether that’s in Liverpool, Chester, Tottenham, Dublin, Lagos, South Carolina, Australia or Jupiter. Or all those places. But definitely as people we need to get out of this habit of cultural insularity.
Roxy Mitchell is converting herself to Scouse in real time as we speak and I bet she’s loving it. Someone’ll bump into her on Lark Lane one Saturday afternoon soon enough.
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