I got the same vibe. The only concrete stories here are ones where he was robbed while he was a pedestrian in London (really? How common is that?); there's the

I got the same vibe. The only concrete stories here are ones where he was robbed while he was a pedestrian in London (really? How common is that?); there's the crazy assertion that London is unsafe for women (what?!); and he described himself as a "woke, kale-eating metrosexual", despite the word "metrosexual" being passe for about a decade and "woke" being meant in the watered-down Fox News sense (just from the other side). You can even hear it, as a joke, in the voice of Jeremy Clarkson. And, absolutely, tons of people live in London without cars. Like you say, it's incredibly common.