London:
The good:
Speakers corner
The highly varied nightlife
The weird shops you never see anywhere else
The amazing buildings (e.g. St. Pauls Cathedral)
The museums
The stimulation
Loads of different cultures
London in the summer - Hyde Park, and all the rest of them - is beautiful
Public transport 24/7
The bad:
The expense (rent costs a fortune - I pay £65 a week, and that is considered extremely cheap)
The homeless
Crime (thankfully, no exposure yet - but there are some scary people about
The scary people
The way that, at times, although you're surrounded by 8 million people, it can sometimes feel very lonely
The blind spots you develop
If I'm able to, I'd love to live here for the rest of my life...
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"If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country." - Jonathan Meades
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