Even in the 90s, it was so much nicer than now!

@jameswest7945

Ай бұрын

What changed? Diversity?

@swaneknoctic9555

Ай бұрын

AIDS.

@Stratoszero

Ай бұрын

It certainly was, people forget how recently everything was more civilised. Blame unregulated immigration, 2 new generations each more useless than the last, and social media.

@BOZ_11

Ай бұрын

@@jameswest7945 Hah, no, capitalists took our money away via 2008 bank crash, Brexit, covid, and now war. Meanwhile you're still out there looking for Benetton colours. D0pe

@BOZ_11

Ай бұрын

@@jameswest7945 xenophobe

I started working in London in 1990 on Piccadilly. This is how I remember london back then, so much much better than now!

What I'd give to live in a slower paced pre internet world again.

@ArtJourneyUK

Ай бұрын

Me too

@newmankidman5763

Ай бұрын

Become Amish, and you will :)

@Beardodoomus

Ай бұрын

@@newmankidman5763 doesn't sound like an unreasonable option these days.

@johngilliam6764

Ай бұрын

​@@newmankidman5763What a stupid suggestion

@newmankidman5763

Ай бұрын

@@johngilliam6764, it was more like a joke than a suggestion, but now that I have read your comment, I am making it a suggestion; so why is my suggestion stupid? Mind you, I am an Atheist, and if your reason is due to the religious part, I totally get it, otherwise I do not

I worked in chancery lane then. Lovely strolling down the market then during my lunch break. So peaceful and carefree without the mobile phones.

Just worked out that I started working in the City in 1990 (age 22). This is how I remember it. Loved every minute. Worked in Broadgate Circle for many years before the company moved to Docklands in 2005.

Was working as a Chauffeur in that Broadgate area, no mobile phones anywhere but we did have car phones.

Lovely video; 32 years ago, where has that time gone?

Seems like yesterday. Was the last ‘good’ decade as far as I’m concerned. Since 9/11 the world has turned to sh**.

@the51project

Ай бұрын

All by design...

@Stratoszero

Ай бұрын

That’s is exactly what I tell people word for word.

@newmankidman5763

Ай бұрын

In the 90s USA was bombarding Iraq, and there was War everywhere in Yugoslavia. In the 80s there was a big famine in Ethiopia. In the 70s Soviet Union was bombarding Afghanistan. Vietnam War before that, and Korean War before that, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki before that, and WW2 before that, and WW1 before that, and so on. 30 years from now, people will have forgotten about Ukraine and Gaza, and they will refer to the 2020s as the best decade

@che_guevara67

Ай бұрын

@@newmankidman5763 youre right about the constant war thing,it sadly what we humans love to do on a regular basis..but...im 54 and in 1992 i was 22 and man it was different..no constant surveillance..life just felt different..colours even seemed different i know how mad that seems lol..but its true..and ofcourse no mobile phones or internet..i know im using it now lol..love hate relationship..its not all bad..but..the music then was off the scale amazing..nirvana, soundgarden. alice in chains. etc just my particular choice of music..i dont know if you experienced the 90s?..if you did ill raise my cuppa tea to ya as i know you'll know..:)...

@Stratoszero

Ай бұрын

@@newmankidman5763 that’s the point it was shit other places but still nice here. So some lunatic decided we should import that shit here, and guess what, it’s shite here now. And as for referring to the 2020s as the greatest decade for the West? Only if your first name is something like Iqbal and you dine at Allan’s Snackbar.

A different world, even if it's only 32 years ago.

the year i moved to London. i'm still here.

Ahh the joy of human interaction without a smartphone. Inconceivable to so many nowadays. Such a god damn shame.

@peteinessex5025

Ай бұрын

I was down the pub earlier with two mates. None of us got our phone out the whole 3 hours we were there. We chatted, drank, chilled and laughed.

@johngilliam6764

Ай бұрын

​@@peteinessex5025That's your meaningless anecdote

That's me at @00:27, jumping off the wall and getting back to the office to do another multi-million dollar deal with Gordon Gekko!

What a dump this country has become since

@heinkle1

Ай бұрын

The 90s were probably the high point of the post-war era (70s being the low point); hard to see anything but decline and culture wars ahead.

@gmc9451

Ай бұрын

​@@heinkle1and yet as a kid I thought the 70s were great. I suppose kids nowadays think the same about the 2020s.

@Skaterbun

Ай бұрын

@@gmc9451give another ten years of trashing and they might

I worked at LIFFE in the early 90s and spent quite a bit of time in The Banker. Great days!

The days when people actually sat and chatted with each other in public places rather than encapsulating themselves in their own digital bubbles. We need to bring this world back.

Look at that, relaxed and civilized. Nowadays i pop into london and pop out, not standing around in public for too long. Many crazies and stabbings/theft.

Wow the streets aren’t filled with hostile ungrateful protesters & criminals .

the world was much more peaceful. 1990 is the year i was born

The start of a new individualistic and greedy part of Britain's history. You can tell what a country is like by how it treats its poor.

0:54 - what happened to that collleseum styled structure? Is it all gone?

Grew up in the 80's and 90's. 80's were the best, 90's were great. The 2000's have been dog shit.

Where is the place at 0:54?

@saltypopcorn2708

Ай бұрын

It was the Broadgate circle near Liverpool Street Station.

@Stratoszero

Ай бұрын

@@saltypopcorn2708was? Redeveloped now? It looks lovely?

@MarkyFormula1

Ай бұрын

​@@Stratoszeroappears to be a circle of shops/cafes/bars now. I feel like this old version is what we should have more of in London. Suppose it's a bit of a waste of space on cold rainy days though.

@Stratoszero

Ай бұрын

@@MarkyFormula1 I honestly thought this clip was a wind up and it was Sydney or somewhere! Sun does wonders for the soul, we need spaces like that for when it happens!

London city white - humza

Ah - the 1 hour lunch break you get to enjoy the outside before being cattled into an office where you'd work silly hours & barely see the people you actually like (friends/family). I started working in 2006 & since 2020 the rise of flexi/hybrid working has been amazing for office workers lives. Office work in 2024 has a ton of negatives compared to 1992 (instant messaging, email etc.) but Id' take flexi over chained to an office & long commutes so you only get to see your spouse/kids for 1 hour a day.

Looked a lot different before mass immigration and smart phones.

To be fair it's still pretty nice other than everyone on their mobiles.

And in 1997 people thought Blair was going to make things better.

@mrmillslee

Ай бұрын

He proved to be a despicable human

@craigjohnson8240

Ай бұрын

Now they think Starmer & Khan are going to make everything better,. The Brits have always been thick.

@Epicgeezer

Ай бұрын

@@craigjohnson8240 Take a look in the mirror

Before it became Londonstan

It's nice to see white people in London, and lots of them. Also no phones...a slice of what we once had.

@marianmorley

Ай бұрын

Muppet

Peaceful. Polite, White...

White people😃