It sounds like you have perhaps a few issues of your own to deal with. I&#x27;ve always lived in&#x2F;around london and I know others who do and we&#x27;re not going mad.  I know a bunch of people from outside the UK who live here and they&#x27;d hate to have to live outside London; it&#x27;s like another world here compared to the sticks in terms of acceptance of foreigners, access to culture etc.   Sure, sometimes there&#x27;s a problem with the train&#x2F;road, but so what? Whatyagonna do?  Shift your whole life around just to try and avoid that?<p>I don&#x27;t know anyone who lives immediately near me so why i&#x27;d want to go for a drink with them instead of my colleagues is something of a mystery to me.  I mean, I don&#x27;t drink anyway, but, you know, coffee or whatever.  In many cultures you&#x27;d not go out for a drink, what with them being pointlessly expensive; you&#x27;d invite each other round to your own place; drink supermarket priced beer, smoke whatever etc without having to deal with randoms getting all legal.