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London is one of the most unequal cities on the planet. You get this surreal mix of wealthy billionaires and poor migrants living hand to mouth. The upper class
by yholio 8y ago
London is one of the most unequal cities on the planet. You get this surreal mix of wealthy billionaires and poor migrants living hand to mouth. The upper classes protect and segregate themselves from the riff-raff through pricing. My experience was that London is not actually a community, the cultural and socioeconomic rifts are so profound that random people seldom interact, there is little small talk to be had with strangers.
Tourists thoroughly enjoy the central areas but seldom realize they could never afford a home there of any decent size.
- loblollyboy 8y agoI'm pretty sure that title would go to the capital of some banana republic whose elites are probably living in London the half the time anyway.
- ido 8y agoyes, having spent a couple of months in India I doubt London has worse inequality than tier-1 Indian cities.
- switch007 8y agoLondon is a rich person's theme park to which tourists are permitted some restricted access, for an exorbitant price. ("tourist" includes people renting for the short to mid term, who simply could not afford to buy, and will move out of London to do so)
- MagnumOpus 8y agoMost unequal on the planet? That is ridiculous. Even SF with its thousands of dotcom millionaires and thousands of homeless is worse, let alone places with proper inequality like Mumbai or Lagos...