I read with great interest the comments of Liam Fitzpatrick on CNN (read the posts on the SleepNY Hong Kong forums to get a taste of what I mean)
They included this:
He makes London sound like some highbrow haven, doesn't he? Funny, because the last time I looked it was a dreary wasteland of burger bars, collapsing infrastructure and crime-ridden housing estates,inhabited by chain-smoking, Stella-chugging, tracksuit-clad halfwits more interested in watching Top Gearor hard porn than attending a performance by the London Philharmonic. But we won't press the point.
Is that a fair criticism of London?