I've lived in London for 24 years and there are still places I haven't visited. I love exploring and London is a great place to explore because there are so many cultures, exhibitions, events, sites and activities. Never a dull moment, you only need to go a travel a small distance to see something new.

Is dreaming of being an pop star walking in Notting Hill or bumping into Eliza Doolittle in Brick Lane wishing you could turn her into a Sloane Ranger, admiring a fake tan of an Essex Girl in Bond Street on your way to HMV, crossing infront of a double decker where you’ll share your ride with a black gang kid with a comb stucked into his head, is listening to the hopeful preachers in Hyde park corner and wondering if Jack the Ripper really ever existed… whilst eating a chicken kebab by the riverside on your way to the Tate, thinking if you were rich, you’d drive a Ferrari exactly like the one that just passed you by on its way to the theatre in the West End, but cursing at the same time against the rain that suddenly started, wishing you were in Marrakech knowing that once there, all you wanna do is come back “home” in your very-cheap flight to Stanstead to your shared flat and moan about the weather.

Life in London is like the old inaccessible dream of having the world in your hands, or maybe more like the best hors-d'oeuvre display you could ever get, this is the Queen of the crossing places where you can taste a bit of every country without leaving the ground.

Is travelling without leaving your neighbourhood.

I love London for its history, museums, theatres and its stoic stiff upper lip. If you've got money and friends it's the fun-times capital of the world...if you don't I would think it's one of the loneliest places ever.

It means that you don't have to go to sauna for a quick 'lose weight' session, u just take an hour tube ride in the summer & the effect is the same...

London for me is living history, where you still find Dickensian characters with gnarled faces, its also where punk rock originated and graffiti art is revered, as a place for marginal art its pretty rich, and its as tribal today as it was when people were hunting and gathering on the banks of the Thames, except people come from further away.

To me London is an area of operations. I don’t have any real connection or bond to it after 18 months. I like it. It’s ok, it’s great. I know I could do more with it. I let it be and it lets me get on with my life. I respect it for that.

London has a very typical identity: red double-decker buses, phone boxes, big Ben, bobbies, royal family, guards, huge parks, black cabs, letter boxes, pubs... For me living in London is like living in a movie decor!

Is to be a voluntary participant in a masochistic yet strangely addictive microcosm of a world within a nation that bares little resemblance to its capital city.