Why anywhere but London?

Afternoon all,

I thought I would explain something. Why would someone who wants to be in the media not want to work in London?

Whilst there are a number of reasons, I have decided to narrow it down to 3 main issues I have with it.

Cost
Rent, food, clothes, everything costs more in London. Unless you have a guaranteed job or "Mummy and Daddy" help then you will really struggle to do all the internships required to make it in the industry. Man can not live on beans alone and even that will cost you double what it costs everywhere else. I mean how can someone live somewhere that charges you £4 for a standard pint of lager? They even charge to use the toilet! I am sorry but I hope to live in a world where you can defecate for free. So with the massive cost in tow I don't think I could ever afford to work for free in London.

The Atmosphere
Now I know for a fact that this is not true of all London, I have met some cracking cockneys in my time but it seems that in London they have a higher than average amount of pretentious arseholes. This would prove a problem to me as I tend to have quite a short temper and pretentious arseholes have such punchable chins. Now don't get me wrong, even in Newcastle we have our own selection of pretentious arseholes but they are nicely confined to certain areas of the city. So if you feel the need for that sort of punishment, you can just pop your head in and die inside. However, in London, due to the increase in the amount of pretentious arseholes, you find them in more places and so they are far more difficult to avoid. London, like most capital cities, also has an inflated opinion of how important it is. They feel that everyone should care about what goes on in its hallowed streets. Sadly, everyone north of Watford and west of Reading couldn't care less about the state of multiculturalism in Islington or what idiot that they have put in charge of their city. We barely care about what goes on in our own towns let alone one that is hundreds of miles away.

Its not the North
Sad reason to end on but I imagine that any Cockney/Londoner would say something similar. You grow up in a particular area, you gain a particular feel about a place and then after years aclimatising you find that everything else seems somewhat alien. If a place doesn't feel like home then can you ever be comfortable? Can you ever really do your best work?

And that is the main reason I wouldn't move to London. Even though I am not a Geordie, to me Newcastle is home. It is where I feel comfortable and I would rather try and bring work up to Newcastle than get lost in the smog.