Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
– Samuel Johnson
London is in the south-east of England and is the largest city in the country as well as being the capital city for the whole of the UK. It was once the capital of the entire British Empire and the busiest port in the world in the late 19th Century. It is one of the world's major cities and has around seven million inhabitants who speak over 300 languages between them. It is one of the most densely populated areas of Western Europe.
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