London

Being a native of the Mother Country, It is often presumed that I am from London.

I dislike this association, I'm not from London, and in 30 years of living in the Mother Country I only visited London a handful of times, and I'm happy to say never for an overnight trip. In recent times I have visited London more frequently, but only as a tour guide for my significant other.

When ever I cross the M25 on a trip into London, I feel like I'm on borrowed time, as the will to live is slowly sucked out of me. London is expensive, and shockingly so. London is dirty, and nobody there seems to care. London is busy, so busy you cant imagine where all these people sleep/work/play.

I think London wold benefit from being its own Nation, not a Micronation- but only because its too big, that way they could set their own pricing structures, continue to speak their own language, residents could continue to live their whole lives inside this nation (never traveling across the border into the 'UK') contain all the tourists that flock to London to see the Royal Family , Londoners can also foot the 69p per person that the UK currently pays out for royal family each year, and there is already a man made border, the M25.

Most tourists that visit the UK, from overseas never venture outside of London,apart from the token visit to Stonehenge.This is probably because of the way that the UK is sold to overseas visitors, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus etc etc, they are all in London, and that's the way the UK is marketed.

The most disappointing  aspect of London is Heathrow Airport, its the gateway into the UK for most overseas visitors, and as such the first experience that these folk have of the UK, and its a disgrace, its dirty, smelly, slow, busy, expensive and impossible to get to. It reminds of a Zoo, maybe they should rename it Heathrow Zoo. Ahem.