How do you feel about the city or town you live in?

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Fifasy -- I never thought about it that way, but what you say is true: it has all the main "stuff" in one city and that's one of the reasons why it's such "overload."

Plus, just too many people. People people people and all the resources are not enough. Not even places to live, not enough space for anyone to be, it's chaos all the time.

There's a big difference between the cultural attractions and benefits of a city, and the daily experience of having to live in it.

The museums are great, but do they help me in the housing crisis? In my sensory overload every day when I leave my home?

All that stuff is there, but my daily life isn't about the British Museum or anything else. My daily life is about how my rent is becoming unaffordable. My food is expensive. I live with constant noise.

See, this is the difference between VISITING a place and enjoying all the "good stuff" but then being able to go home to a quieter existence, and living somewhere more comfortable for daily life. Vacationing is different from daily reality.

All those things about London do not mean a hill of beans when you actually live here. And I say that as a person who is actually into history, and yes I've been to all the places. But my DAILY life is another matter.

Only outsiders chastize Londoners for being unhappy with London, but it's because they are only thinking of that good stuff and not experiencing the ordinary bad stuff, which is the greater part of my daily life.

When you live in London you're living, not being a tourist. It's hard, noisy, expensive, loud and rough here.

There’s a reason the group Live! Considers their hometown, York, PA, to be, as they called in their song, “Sh!t town.” Any wonder the live 35 miles due east, in Lancaster, PA? (Even though they bought a decrepit warehouse close to the old hellhole known as the former York County Prison, rehabbed it into offices, a recording studio, and named the place “Think Loud.”)

Hard, noisy, expensive, loud and rough. Living in Chicago I can relate 100%. One thing that I dislike very much--at night it really does not get dark at all. The light pollution is so bad that you have a constant dim light even at night. Is it the same in London?

Yep, light pollution! You can never really see meteor showers when you hear about one being visible.

I'm always shocked when I see one of those distant satellite pictures of the British Isles at night, how much the London region is this really giant splash of artificial light, the city is so lit up at night and it covers such a large area, while other city's bright spots are small and contained.

There are a lot of drug dealers and prostitutes here, and a large portion of the police officers are also pimps and drug dealers. My only hope for this town is extra surveillance.