‘London is my home’: Locals laud capitals diversity

Londoners tell us why they love the capital, its diversity, multicultural significance, food and opportunity.

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00:00What do you love about London and why?

00:02The fact that London is the world, everybody is here, it's fantastic.

00:08I wouldn't want to live in another British city, it's just amazing.

00:13Well, what I love about London especially is the fact that it's very multicultural

00:21and that's the main thing really.

00:25I'm from abroad myself but I've been here for a long while

00:30and I can call this home.

00:34The reason I love London is for the variety of things you can do,

00:36the constant opportunity to try new things and meet new people.

00:42So what I like about London is the diversity which is controversial right now.

00:48A lot of different foods, I love food a lot as you can tell.

00:54And I don't know, I got to meet some of my closest friends because of diversity,

00:58without it that wouldn't have happened.

01:01It's like a microcosm unto itself by comparison to the rest of the country.

01:05I think London is incredible because so many different cultural spheres

01:10and not just in terms of nationalities and stuff like that

01:14but also subcultural spheres and sectors of society all overlap with one another.

01:19I think it's really cool that you can go into London

01:22and find bits and pieces of a million different cultures and peoples interacting.

01:27But basically I was born in Italy and I came here for fashion mainly at the beginning

01:35when I was very young.

01:38But I like the fact that, yes, it was very multicultural.

01:43Also all the different groups were kind of integrated or on the integration

01:52and that was very...

01:53because I used to live in Paris and Paris was much more challenging.