Out of Pod Experience

What a waste of good quality tea! Damn roady colonials!

I want to believe that is taken out of context somehow

You have to live in a place in order to appreciate its real diversity; as a visitor your contact (and therefore your understanding) is limited - however much you read-up on it before you stepped off the train.

In Dickens' words, London is indeed a 'great and dirty city', but it isn't all as he described so feelingly in the opening chapter of 'Bleak House' (In Chancery). Dickens had a passion for London, yet it didn't blight his critical faculty at all.

It's the same with most Londoners. We're well aware of the dirt, the crime, the haphazard quality of new builds, the usually ghastly social accommodation and its attendant ills - and the rudeness.

But you can find these things in any large modern city, anywhere.

I live and work in leafy West London, where the air quality is not exactly improved by my habit of mingling that precious resource with cigarette smoke. At least I don't drive around spewing choking exhaust all over the place, I suppose.

London has its Highsec, it's Lowsec and Null. If you know where to look, you'll also find its Wormhole Spaces. It has Jita, Hek, Dodixie,etc., it's all here.

But, like New Eden, London is above all its people. We're incredibly diverse, as befits a modern city. We do have our gankers, our wiseguys and even our fools. And we have our good folks, our drunks, our gamblers, our carebears.

If CCP are coming to London, they'll feel right at home.