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I don't want to live where I do because it's an expensive neighbourhood. I want to live where I do because it's where everyone I know lives. Living somewhere else would mean abandoning friends and family.

Fundamentally that's the only thing that stops me from leaving the UK this second.

You make it sound as if it's an innate desire to feel important by living in a fancy place.




>> "...innate desire to feel important by living in a fancy place."

But that desire for importance is a thing, too. How else do we explain all the transplants moving to drastically-overpriced Williamsburg/Bushwick without knowing a soul?




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