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ifwinterco | on: London's Free Roof Terraces
Lived in london for over a decade, never been and I also don't think I know anyone else who's been.

To be fair it's not just that, you won't find many actual londoners in central full stop unless they're going to work

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hnlmorg | parent | next
I wouldn’t say that’s an accurate generalisation.

I’ll often meet and hang out with friends in central London.

shermantanktop | parent
> Lived in london for over a decade

> actual londoners

So which is it? Lots of expats in London. They aren’t tourist but they aren’t born-and-bred londoners, are they?

ifwinterco | root | parent
I'm not a proper Londoner but I am English, I stand by my comment though - people who actually grew up in London would be even less likely to be found in central London on a Saturday
shermantanktop | root | parent
I was born in the city I live in and so were my kids. They’ve never visited the #1 tourist attraction, and I only did when I was a kid.

My experience living in the UK was that we’d go off as a family to visit Arundel Castle or one of the hundred other amazing things nearby, and the Brits I worked with would say “oh yeah, I went there on a school trip…” or “oh I’ve heard it’s nice.”

Denizens of a place don’t always appreciate what their location offers. That doesn’t make them cool or better than tourists.

That said, I agree that central London is not somewhere I desperately want to go every day. But there’s a lot of great stuff there.

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