‘Charging us to see fireworks at New Year is disgusting!’ Londoners react to summer vs winter in the capital

We asked locals if they prefer summer or winter in the capital and the answer was pretty emphatic.

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00:00 Do you think London is a winter city or do you think it's better in the summer?

00:05 I think every city's better in the summer. A winter city has got to be somewhere further

00:11 south I suppose. But there's so much happening indoors, so with theatre and music and cinemas

00:21 and restaurants. Yeah, and the transport system's pretty good, so it's not bad as a winter city.

00:29 But yeah, I think, look, it's dark nearly and it's only three o'clock.

00:35 Well, the thing is I like the summer more than I like the winter. I don't really like

00:38 the cold that much to be honest. I'd say it's a summer city personally. Yeah, that's how

00:45 I'd rather it be anyway.

00:49 Everybody prefers London in the summer. It's only good for tourists in the city, you know,

00:53 in the city centre, uptown. Do you know what I mean? It's not really any good out of town.

00:58 And everything's so expensive and they make it very expensive for the citizens of London

01:04 to enjoy London, other than we get some Christmas lights which nobody can afford the fare to

01:09 go into London to see. And as for New Year and charging the London population to see

01:15 the Christmas, you know, fireworks and everything, New Year, disgusting.

01:21 I would say summer, definitely.

01:24 Do you like it in the winter or are you just...

01:29 It's cold, cold and wet. So summer's better.

01:34 I think definitely like during the summer it's nice, like Camden is really nice. There's

01:38 so many things to do but like during winter I guess the aesthetic is nice, the Christmas

01:43 lights, Winter Wonderland. But I prefer it in summer I think.

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