>> It's old, dirty, overcrowded, expensive, and it looks like the decaying
>> ruins of a fallen civilisation. What's to like?
>>
> Woah, there! Be careful of what you speak!

I guess it *is* that early on a Monday morning... Maybe if I'd been more 
awake I would have just not answered the question.

> Dirty? Only in the same way that many large cities are dirty.

I guess it's not so much that it *is* dirty more than it *seems* dirty. 
You've got all the crumbling, blackened buildings, the noise and 
pollution from the intense traffic, and it makes the place seem more 
grimy than it is.

> Overcrowded? Less than 8M people in an urban area that is 32km north to
> south and 50km west to east. That is _not_ crowded.

See, to me, any place where you have to queue for 20 minutes just to 
_walk through a shop door_ is catastrophically overcrowded, IMHO.

> Expensive? I'll give you that.

Well there's not much use denying it. ;-) Hmm, I wonder where the 
*cheapest* place in the UK is? I'd hypothesise somewhere not nice...

> Your final comment I will treat with the contempt it deserves.

Fair enough. You are of course entitled to your opinion. But you did 
*ask* me what's wrong with London. ;-) You can't really ask somebody why 
they don't like something and then be all upset when they tell you they 
don't like it.

> I liked meeting you, Andrew, but please don't lower my opinion of you by
> ill-informed mocking of a city that I love.
> 
> John (feeling well p***ed-off)

Well, I can relate to that. Everybody I meet thinks that Milton Keynes 
is a deserlate wasteland that should be erased from the map. I can't 
begin to imagine why... It's certainly not perfect, but it's so much 
nicer than any other city I've ever seen.

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