The Speed of LDN

It's amazing how fast London moves.  You get off a train at Victoria or drive in bar car and the whole atmosphere changes.  People are buzzing...moving at the speed of light as though their lives depend on speed.

There is little time for manners, and I have noticed the decline of manners in the last couple fo years.  People will routinely shove you out of the way in an attempt to get off a bus or catch a train.  Rush hour is particularly brutal.  I have seen many fistfights break out between suited commuters.

Road rage is commonplace, with drivers screaming obscenities at each other.  No one is above from this behaviour.

As people move manically about London so too do they manically move in and out of London.  Austrailians and South Africans typically stay here two or three years...long enough for them to make enough money to put down a downpayment on a house back home.  The rental market is crazy...people stay in a house or flat for around 9 months, before deciding it is time to move to another (probably trendier) part of London.