London, Global City of the Year. You bet it is! »

“It’s shockingly expensive. The roads are jammed with traffic. The subway system’s hopeless, and the buses no better. There’s a surveillance camera on every other corner, and the sidewalks are strewn with litter. The biggest airport is a joke. The richest residents are fleeing or threatening to; the poorest have been chased out into the suburbs by soaring property prices. And the weather sucks.

Why is somewhere with so much against it such a great place for creatives to live and work?…”