In 1777, Samuel Johnson wrote Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. (link).
In 1777, the population of London was approximately 800,000 people, a tenth it’s current size and a little larger than modern-day Leeds but smaller than Birmingham. (link)
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But Jeez, if that saying is true that about a bizarre cross between Birmingham and Leeds, London must be bloody marvellous!
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Yeah, but only in the eighteenth century…