Hey guys,
So I just moved to London from Los Angeles and I definitely have an American accent-- personally in the grand scheme of American accents I think I have a pretty neutral accent, I mean California accents are pretty neutral, but I have been told my accent is very strong from all the Brits.
I seriously get asked this question by every single guy I speak to. And that's on top of all the British people I speak to on a daily basis-- store owners, people on the tube, neighbors, people on the street, etc. It's not even brought up in conversation, it usually goes "hi how are you?" "I'm good you?" "I'm great now that I'm talking to you, what's your name babe?" "Johnny... wow, you must be an American! Why did you move to London?" 98% of the time it's followed up by the question, "why on Earth would you want to leave Los Angeles for London? The weather is so much worse here." And then we have to talk about that which is even more irritating...
The first five times I'm asked this I smile, explain I wanted to move to Europe to travel before graduate school, blah blah. Sometimes they want to go into more detail than that so I turn it back to them and talk about how lovely London is, etc. But by the time I've spoken to 30 or 50 people and I'm getting asked this question for the 50th time, and they want me to give them this legitimate thought out answer (because when I say something like "because London is the greatest city in the world!" just to avoid having to do my speel they fucking WON'T LET IT GO) I am seriously fucking sick and tired of explaining the same godamn thing over again and it really shows in my mood and is not a great start to our conversation. Honestly just hearing the question for the 50th time make me clench my fists. Oh, and then I get to hear it and answer it again 50 times the next night!
So, any advice on how I can avoid having to answer this question or a one sentence answer I can give without having to go into detail? I don't know why "because London is the greatest city in the world!" isn't enough for them, I mean I can tell they're only half listening to me anyway because they'll ask me something like "when are you going back to America?" 2 minutes later when I specially told them I'm staying for two years. Fucking Brits!




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