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Sorry to exclude those of you who don't live in the capital. I had a brief scan of the 16 pages you get if you type London in to the search but... what do we think of London? Not just as cyclists, infact especially not as cyclists. I can't make my own mind up and I've been here 25 years. Mostly I think I hate it, I really really hate it but can't imagine living in any other British city. Why do we live here? If you were born here why have you never left or why have you returned? I came down South to be a student and now I feel like I'm a prisoner serving life with no chance of parole.
So, London? in your experience, in culture, what is there to say? What book, film, record says something about London that you agree or disagree with?
For me it's this: it's weirdly apt and seems, in it's melancholy and sense of failure and decay, to get more apt every year.
YouTube - Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street