Moving to the Big Smoke?. A phase of life all too familiar with a lot of young adults who have just finished their degrees. but if your new to the city of London and have been raised on the mean streets of Devon! the big question is 'where do you move?'
A much bigger problem than you may imagine. If you believe everything you see, hear or read you would become a shivering wreck and refuse to go outside. One person will tell you that Hackney is really bad, home of the murder mile ect ect but then your tiny, skinny and blonde friend who's a girl says that it's fine and that she has lived there for years.
The media is either painting London as a hoodie infested death hole or as a shiny beacon of hope for the world. Make up your mind! either way it's hard to know as one street will look fine and you feel good, you turn a corner and your in bum town feeling bad.
Truth is there are good and bad areas to any place and it is easy to get scared, especially with our news being the pessimistic and dare I say it sadistic bastards that they are. but if you ask the right people i.e. people who actually live there, you will find out that it's not that scary at all, just really fucking expensive!
So my advice is first ask those around you who know or live in London then go there, walk around and just ask people in the street and I am the biggest scaredy cat ever so I speak the thruth :)
