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Great read, thanks for posting.
The thing that gets me most is that cities like Paris, NYC, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid still feel more like cities. As in, the fact there's people popping outside to pick up milk rather than some c*unt with a clipboard blocking off the road for a whatever reason. The parts of London that I love are now largely office or retail space.
jaw
A lot of the complaints aren't unique to London. This is one of the numerous articles on the phenomenon of livable cities.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/childless-city-13577.html
I do like London but, as a furriner, the really interesting bits in the centre of town are no longer lived in. They are now ghost towns of mega luxury, unoccupied properties that are money laundering exercises for unbelievably dodgy government officials from the former soviet republics. It's killing the place.