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Originally Posted by isaidso

I tell people in London that and they ridicule it as beyond the realm of possibility. They have tunnel vision for New York (and the US) and can't comprehend of any city on the planet beating London or New York when it comes to that very cosmopolitan of barometers: foreign born population. They react like you just shot their mother when you tell them they're 4th behind New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto in absolute numbers.

They're so self absorbed that they ironically come off as a bit provincial some times. They need to get out more and realize that there's a big world out there beyond London and NY.

So, so true. Well said.