How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by rurban on Sunday March 20, 2022 @09:38AM (#30742507)

the usual polls show Vienna being the best big city to live in, and for smaller cities there's always the Riviera or Marbella ahead.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by CuriouslyC on Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:45PM (#30749981)

This. London is a good city but being a finance hub that is friendly to outside investment is the real draw. There are other cities with much better architecture, food, art, culture, etc than London but I doubt anyone in Europe is better at providing financial services and to extreme wealth.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by rosndo on Sunday March 20, 2022 @05:42PM (#30746975)

Those polls are for poor people.

I can tell you from experience that Vienna is a shithole compared to London if you have a 100k+/mo budget.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by CuriouslyC on Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:47PM (#30749995)

If you're stupid wealthy you're not really tied to one place. Maybe london is the only place that has underground cabals that will torture a child in front of you for a million dollars, but nobody wants to torture children every day. The rest of the days, maybe you want to relax in a mountain villa somewhere warmer with nice ocean breezes and lots of sun.

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