"my experience of London has been one of welcome and joy in its people and cultural venues. I am 80 and have chosen to retire to north-east London to live in this very multicultural, vibrant environment in my final years. I am in the past enjoyed the peace of Devon and Hampshire, but in both I missed a certain heartbeat the joy of art and music and now these and more are on hand in London. I find the people friendly, the young polite"
"Having lived in London for 40 years, I agree with most of Jonathan Liew's defence of cities. Some, however, will find jarring his suggestion that they are the fullest expression of what it is to be human. Cities cut people off from a fundamental aspect of our humanity: that we are part of the natural world and the wider universe. Wildlife in cities is present only in pockets. The stars are all but invisible."
An 80-year-old retiree describes London as multicultural, vibrant, and welcoming, with plentiful cultural venues and considerate, friendly people. The retiree values the city's art and music and finds public transport and pavements accommodating for mobility needs. A long-term resident acknowledges urban strengths but warns that cities disconnect humans from the natural world, reducing wildlife presence and obscuring the stars. The resident links this disconnection to reduced wellbeing and biodiversity loss. The resident cautions that treating cities as the fullest expression of humanity could lead to a bleak future without greater nature connection.
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