Interesting article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5179232.stm

"The most important place to London is New York and to New York is London and Tokyo," Prof Sennett says. "London belongs to a country composed of itself and New York."

I think there's a lot in this. My horror of moving somewhere in the UK that isn't London I think comes from an idea that Birmingham or Glasgow or whereever are just as foreign as Paris or New York.