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edricarica · 3211 days ago · link · · parent · post: 20 years from now what will you have wish you had done?
London is a big, sprawling metropolis, with extreme wealth and extreme poverty crowded together, and all the opportunities for crime that goes along with that. I grew up in Hackney, which is one of those now-gentrified-but-f*ing-scary-in-the-90s kinds of an area (parts of Brooklyn would be a good comparison, maybe?), so I got good at doing that inner-city hood-up keep-out-of-everybody's-way thing... The whole of London is not like that by any means - the western parts of the city are generally really safe, as are the tourist spots.
I'm in France now. Come! It's glorious :)