Chameleon Magazine

 💸💀Once the beating heart of empire, now the overpriced AirBnB of the global elite—London is fast becoming the city equivalent of a luxury handbag: expensive, impractical, and only impressive to people who don’t live there. As house prices choke on their own absurdity and locals are priced out faster than Pret sandwiches go mouldy, we ask the question: is London just… done?

💀 The Capital is Eating Itself—and the Rent’s Still Due

Let’s face it: London is starting to feel like a beautiful corpse. Glossy on the outside, hollow on the inside. For every foreign investor buying their fourth penthouse in Zone 1 they’ll visit twice a year, there’s a nurse commuting 3 hours because she can’t afford to live within 30 miles of her hospital.

📉 Want to buy a flat in London?

Cool—just remortgage your soul, say goodbye to natural light, and enjoy 600 square feet of luxury prison with a balcony the size of a napkin.

🚇 Want to move house?

LOL. Between stamp duty, council tax, legal fees, and the low-level existential dread of moving in London, most people would rather live in a haunted pub than deal with that paperwork.

🧑‍⚖️ Want to stay in London?

Okay, but only if you’re cool with rising crime, crumbling infrastructure, schools that double as radiators in winter and freezers in summer, and rent increases that would make a Manhattan landlord blush.

London isn’t dead. But it’s wandering into zombie territory—lurching forward, feeding off past prestige, and still somehow demanding £2,500 a month for a one-bed with a broken fridge.

Meanwhile, cities like Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, and Glasgow are luring talent with lower prices, actual community vibes, and homes where you can swing your arms without knocking over your kettle.

So is London doomed?

Maybe not. But it is stuck in an identity crisis.

Is it a home for real people?

A museum of wealth?

Or just a giant tax shelter with a river running through it?

Until someone answers that, the capital might keep capitalising itself into irrelevance.

😤 Challenges 😤

Are you still trying to live in London? Did you escape and feel like you just left a cult? Is your rent higher than your monthly calorie intake? Drop your truth bombs in the blog comments 💣💬