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Young Italians flock to London – for just the same reasons it scares me

Yes, yes, it's a vibrant world city. How can anyone now afford to live there?

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

Although I live in the country in Northamptonshire, I go to London often — almost once a week — and I find it more and more intimidating. This isn’t just because of the skyscrapers that spring up boastfully everywhere, parading one’s own insignificance, but also because of the aura of terrifying wealth that pervades its central area and now even its inner suburbs.

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